编辑推荐

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

　　《菊与刀》是鲁思·本尼迪克特最有名的作品，这本书是第二次世界大战接近尾声时，作者受美国政府委托，为解决盟军是否应该占领日本以及美国应该如何管理日本的问题，根据文化类型理论、运用文化人类学方法对即将战败的日本进行研究所得出的综合报告。
　　恬淡静美的“菊”是日本皇室家徽，凶狠决绝的“刀”是武士道文化的象征。鲁思·本尼迪克特运用文化人类学的方法，用“菊”与“刀”来揭示日本人的矛盾性格，即日本文化的双重性（如爱美而黩武、尚礼而好斗、喜新而顽固、服从而不驯等）。由此入手，进而分析日本社会的等级制及有关习俗，并指出日本幼儿教养和成人教养的不连续性是形成双重性格的重要因素。文本从日本人生活方式和典型事件入手，于生动的叙述中进行有力论析，语言富有智慧和幽默感。读之既启人深思，又引人入胜，是了解日本民族绕不过的经典读本。

作者简介

　　鲁思·本尼迪克特，生于纽约，原姓富尔顿（Fulton），美国女人类学家。第二次世界大战后期，德日败局已定，美国需要根据日本的情况制定具体的政策，于是本尼迪克特在1944年，受命于美国政府，收集各项资料，完成了这份报告，并在报告中阐述自己的推断。战争结束后，美国的决策与她的推断意见一致，她准确的预见是本书亮点之一。她在大学期间学习的是英国文学，1919年前往哥伦比亚大学从事人类学研究，师从于二战前最伟大的人类学家之一——弗兰茨·博厄斯（FranzBoas，1858－1942），1923年获得了博士学位。她于1927年研究印第安部落文化，写成《文化的类型》（PatternofCulture，1934年）一书，1940年完成《种族：科学与政治》（Race：ScienceandPolitics）一书，批判种族歧视。第二次世界大战期间从事对罗马尼亚、荷兰、德国、泰国等国民族性的研究，而其中对日本的研究——《菊与刀》一书的贡献最大。二战结束后，她继续在哥伦比亚大学参加“当代文化研究”，于1948年9月病逝。

目录

1 ASSIGNMENT： JAPAN
2 THE JAPANESE IN THE WAR
3 TAKING ONE'S PROPER STATION
4 THE MEIJI REFORM
5 DEBTOR TO THE AGES AND THE WORLD
6 REPAYING ONE-TEN-THOUSANDTH
7 THE REPAYMENT 'HARDEST TO BEAR'.
8 CLEARING ONE'S NAME
9 THE CIRCLE OF HUMAN FEELINGS
10 THE DILEMMA OF VIRTUE
11 SELF-DISCIPLINE
12 THE CHILD LEARNS
13 THE JAPANESE SINCE VJ-DAY
GLOSSARY

精彩书摘

　　Anthropologists also have had to accustom themselves to maximum differences between their own culture and another and their techniques have to be sharpened for this particular problem. They know from experience that there are great differences in the situations which men in different cultures have to meet and in the way in which different tribes and nations define the meanings of these situations. In some Arctic village or tropical desert they were faced with tribal arrangements of kinship responsibility or financial exchange which in their moments of most unleashed imagination they could not have invented. They have had to investigate, not only the details of kinship or exchange, but what the consequences of these arrangements were in the tribe’s behavior and how each generation was conditioned from childhood to carry on as their ancestors had done before them.
　　This professional concern with differences and their conditioning and their consequences could well be used in the study of Japan. No one is unaware of the deep-rooted cultural differences between the United States and Japan. We have even a folklore about the Japanese which says that whatever we do they do the opposite. Such a conviction of difference is dangerous only if a student rests content with saying simply that these differences are so fantastic that it is impossible to understand such people. The anthropologist has good proof in his experience that even bizarre behavior does not prevent one’s understanding it. More than any other social scientist he has professionally used differences as an asset rather than a liability. There is nothing that has made him pay such sharp attention to institutions and peoples as the fact that they were phenomenally strange. There was nothing he could take for granted in his tribe’s way of living and it made him look not just at a few selected facts, but at everything. In studies of Western nations one who is untrained in studies of comparative cultures overlooks whole areas of behavior. He takes so much for granted that he does not explore the range of trivial habits in daily living and all those accepted verdicts on homely matters, which, thrown large on the national screen, have more to do with that nation’s future than treaties signed by diplomats.
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前言/序言

最近京东的折扣好强劲，趁着打折买了不少本，可以读一阵子啦

这是一系列丛书，非常不错。就是字体有些小了，英文原文想做些笔记，没地方写上。

这本书单词上没难度，177个不认识，看一遍后大约还有50个没记住。但写法上一开始让人摸不到头脑，慢慢看才略明白。真要理解后思考及启迪，那要再看两遍。

我买它主要是因为《大双心河》。海明威的冰山理论作用得淋漓尽致，让人心里有种很悬的感受。我买回来，迫不及待去阅读《大双心河》，和译本的感觉还是不一样的。有种明亮的忧郁。市面上应该有不同的版本，我拍了目录给大家看。希望能够帮助到有需要的朋友。谢谢。

书看起来还不错，就是觉得有点儿小

不错不错不错不错不错不错不错不错不错

世界图书出版社的书，价格什么的都挺好的。就是纸质实在让人有点抓狂，遇上没塑封的，感觉惨不忍睹。

这是一系列丛书，非常不错。就是字体有些小了，英文原文想做些笔记，没地方写上。

很不错的赶脚?