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　　世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画，让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此，我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。
　　我们找来了专门研究西方历史、西方文化的专家学者，请教了专业的翻译人员，精心挑选了这些可以代表西方文学的著作，并听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友的建议，不删节、不做任何人为改动，严格按照原著的风格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，让读者能享受纯正的英文名著。
　　随着阅读的展开，你会发现自己的英语水平无形中有了大幅提高，并且对西方历史文化的了解也日益深入广阔。
　　送您一套经典，让您受益永远！

内容简介

　　英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的文学评论集《普通读者》及其续编当中选译出的文章。《普通读者》向我们介绍了英国一批著名作家和一些我们还不怎么熟悉的作家的生平、作品、写作生涯、遗闻轶事等，我们读来饶有兴味，有助于我们对这些作家的进一步了解。
　　《世界名著典藏系列：普通读者（英文全本）》为《普通读者》的英文版，供广大读者阅读学习。

目录

THE COMMON READER
THE PASTONS AND CHAUCER
ON NOT KNOWING GREEK
THE ELIZABETHAN LUMBER ROOM
NOTES ON AN ELIZABETHAN PLAY
MONTAIGNE
THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE
RAMBLING ROUND EVELYN
DEFOE
ADDISON
THE LIVES OF THE OBSCURE
JANE AUSTEN
MODERN FICTION
"JANE EYRE" AND "WUTHERING HEIGHTS".
GEORGE ELIOT
THE RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW
OUTLINES
THE PATRON AND THE CROCUS
THE MODERN ESSAY
JOSEPH CONRAD
HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY

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　　That is the quality that first strikes us in Greek literature, thelightning-quick, sneering, out-of-doors manner. It is apparent in themost august as well as in the most trivial places. Queens andPrincesses in this very tragedy by Sophocles stand at the doorbandying words like village women, with a tendency, as one mightexpect, to rejoice in language, to split phrases into slices, to be intenton verbal victory. The humour of the people was not good-natured likethat of our postmen and cab-drivers. The taunts of men lounging at thestreet corners had something cruel in them as well as witty. There is acruelty in Greek tragedy which is quite unlike our English brutality. Isnot Pentheus, for example, that highly respectable man, maderidiculous in the Bacchae before he is destroyed？ In fact, of course,these Queens and Princesses were out of doors, with the bees buzzingpast them, shadows crossing them, and the wind taking their draperies.They were speaking to an enormous audience rayed round them on oneof those brilliant southern days when the sun is so hot and yet the air soexciting. The poet, therefore, had to bethink him, not of some themewhich could be read for hours by people in privacy, but of somethingemphatic, familiar, brief, that would carry, instantly and directly, to anaudience of seventeen thousand people perhaps, with ears and eyeseager and attentive, with bodies whose muscles would grow stiff ifthey sat too long without diversion.
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前言/序言

　　世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画，让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此，我们将这套精心编辑的"名著典藏"奉献给广大读者。
　　我们找来了专门研究西方历史、西方文化的专家学者，请教了专业的翻译人员，精心挑选了这些可以代表西方文学的著作，并听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友的建议，不删节、不做任何人为改动，严格按照原著的风格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，让读者能享受纯正的英文名著。
　　随着阅读的展开，你会发现自己的英语水平无形中有了大幅提高，并且对西方历史文化的了解也日益深入广阔。
　　送您一套经典，让您受益永远！

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　　That is the quality that first strikes us in Greek literature, thelightning-quick, sneering, out-of-doors manner. It is apparent in themost august as well as in the most trivial places. Queens andPrincesses in this very tragedy by Sophocles stand at the doorbandying words like village women, with a tendency, as one mightexpect, to rejoice in language, to split phrases into slices, to be intenton verbal victory. The humour of the people was not good-natured likethat of our postmen and cab-drivers. The taunts of men lounging at thestreet corners had something cruel in them as well as witty. There is acruelty in Greek tragedy which is quite unlike our English brutality. Isnot Pentheus, for example, that highly respectable man, maderidiculous in the Bacchae before he is destroyed？ In fact, of course,these Queens and Princesses were out of doors, with the bees buzzingpast them, shadows crossing them, and the wind taking their draperies.They were speaking to an enormous audience rayed round them on oneof those brilliant southern days when the sun is so hot and yet the air soexciting. The poet, therefore, had to bethink him, not of some themewhich could be read for hours by people in privacy, but of somethingemphatic, familiar, brief, that would carry, instantly and directly, to anaudience of seventeen thousand people perhaps, with ears and e

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