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《王子与贫儿》是美国作家马克·吐温的代表作。
内容简介
Mistaken identity! Subterfuge! Plots and counterplots! Does this sound like the latest murder-mystery novel? Well, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in one of the best childhood fantasy novels ever written. Mark Twain wrote The Prince and the Pauper and dedicated it to his two daughters, Glara and Susie. In a departure from his usual style, Twain weaves a delightful story of the prince who wants to see something of the world, and the pauper boy who wants to escape from the cruelty of his world. It is lavishly illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings. Annotation When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.
《王子与贫儿》是美国作家马克·吐温的代表作。本文描写王子爱德华和贫儿汤姆在一个阴差阳错的偶然机会下,互相换了位置,王子变成了贫儿,贫儿成了王子。贫儿汤姆穿着王子的衣服在王宫里尽享荣华富贵,还当上了英国的新国王。而真正的王子爱德华却在外四处流浪,不得不忍受贫穷和乞丐们的欺凌和嘲讽。在好人霍顿的帮助下,爱德华王子经历了重重劫难,改正了自己的坏习惯,最后终于回到了王宫。而贫儿汤姆在良心的谴责下,将不属于自己的王位还给了真正的王子。此后,爱德华成了一位仁慈的君主,和他的子民一起过着幸福的生活。故事的想像极其丰富、语言幽默风趣,在带给儿童快乐的同时,还能极大地激发儿童的想像力和对纯洁、善良、美好事物的向往。
作者简介
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental
—and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”
马克·吐温(Mark Twain,1835年11月30日-1910年4月21日),原名萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门 (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (射手座)是美国的幽默大师、小说家、作家,也是著名演说家,19世纪后期美国现实主义文学的杰出代表。
虽然马克·吐温的财富不多,却无损他高超的幽默、机智与名气,被称为美国最知名人士之一,曾被推崇为“美国文坛巨子”,擅长写讽刺小说。其交友甚是广泛,迪士尼、魏伟德、尼古拉·特斯拉、海伦·凯勒、亨利·罗杰诸君,皆为其友。他曾被誉为文学史上的林肯。海伦·凯勒曾言:“我喜欢马克·吐温——谁会不喜欢他呢?即使是上帝,亦会钟爱他,赋予其智慧,并于其心灵里绘画出一道爱与信仰的彩虹。”威廉·福克纳称他为“第一位真正的美国作家,我们都是继承他而来”。他于1910年4月21日去世,享年七十五岁,安葬于纽约州艾玛拉。
他的代表作是《百万英镑》,在小学5年级人教版语文书第二学期,是24课名叫《金钱的魔力》。他的作品《汤姆索亚历险记》,被录入七年级苏教版语文课本第一学期的名著推荐与阅读。六年级下册也同样有。他的作品《汤姆索亚历险记》,被录入人教版小学六年级下册第17课。他的作品《汤姆索亚历险记》,被录入英语牛津深圳版八年级下册第6单元课文。他的作品《汤姆索亚历险记》,被录入沪教版七年级下册第8单元的第35课。“马克·吐温”是其最常使用的笔名,一般认为这个笔名是源自 其早年水手术语,马克·吐温的意思是:水深12英尺,萨缪尔(即“马克·吐温”)曾当过领航员,与其伙伴测量水深时,他的伙伴叫道“Mark Twain !”,意思是“两个标记”,亦即水深两浔(1浔约1.8米),这是轮船安全航行的必要条件.还有一个原因是,他的船长塞勒斯,曾是位德高望重的领航员,不时为报纸写些介绍密西西比河掌故的小品,笔名“马克·吐温”。 1859年,塞勒斯船长发表了一篇预测新奥尔良市将被水淹没的文章。调皮的萨缪尔决定拿他开个玩笑,就模仿他的笔调写了一篇非常尖刻的讽刺小品。谁知这篇游戏文章竟深深刺痛了老船长的心,老船长从此弃笔不写,“马克·吐温”这个笔名也从此在报纸上销声匿迹了。 四年后,当上记者的萨缪尔得悉塞勒斯船长谢世的噩耗,为自己当年的恶作剧追悔不已,决心弥补这一过失,于是他继承了“马克·吐温”这个笔名,并以此开始了他的写作生涯。但亦有一说,指其在西部流浪时,经常在酒店买酒两杯,并要求酒保在帐单上记“两个标记”。然而,孰真孰假,或两者皆虚,则无从稽考。他的真名叫“萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门”。
精彩书评
Made less satirical than Mark Twain's classic and simplified for younger readers, this retelling is still a lively romp. A beggar and a prince look so alike that they change places but then cannot immediately switch back. Mayer's (The Unicorn and the Lake) adaptation is serviceable if not sparkling; she retains all the key scenes of the story but flattens Twain's archaisms. While some of the original's sophisticated humor gets lost in the translation, much of it remains. For example, when Edward, the prince, tries telling pauper Tom's parents that he is really the Prince of Wales, Tom's mother responds, "Oh, poor Tom, it's all those books you read that's done this to you." And in court, when Tom is given a finger bowl, he drinks from it, announcing, "This is a very flavorless soup." Lippincott (Bruce Coville's Magic Shop series) vibrantly renders the ragged features of the paupers, and his tableaux are full of life. His palace scenes are ornate, light-filled watercolors of splendor in which the boys' homely, toothy faces seem like the only real and honest things. For readers not yet ready for Twain, this version, like its model, will make them think about their places in the world.
--From Publishers Weekly
精彩书摘
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The Birth of the Prince and the Pauper
In the ancient city of london, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. All England wanted him too. England had so longed for him, and hoped for him, and prayed God for him that now that he was really come, the people went nearly mad for joy. Mere acquaintances hugged and kissed each other and cried. Everybody took a holiday, and high and low, rich and poor, feasted and danced and sang, and got very mellow; and they kept this up for days and nights together. By day London was a sight to see, with gay banners waving from every balcony and housetop and splendid pageants marching along. By night it was again a sight to see, with its great bonfires at every corner and its troops of revelers making merry around them. There was no talk in all of England but of the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, who lay lapped in silks and satins, unconscious of all this fuss, and not knowing that great lords and ladies were tending him and watching over him--and not caring either. But there was no talk about the other baby, Tom Canty, lapped in his poor rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble with his presence.
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