發表於2025-04-15
Inferno: A Novel (Robert Langdon) 煉獄 英文原版 [精裝] pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載
I am the Shade.
Through the dolent city, I flee.
Through the eternal woe, I take flight.
Along the banks of the river Arno, I scramble, breathless . . . turning left onto Via dei Castellani, making my way northward, huddling in the shadows of the Uffizi.
And still they pursue me.
Their footsteps grow louder now as they hunt with relentless determination.
For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground . . . forced me to live in purgatory . . . laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.
I am the Shade.
Here aboveground, I raise my eyes to the north, but I am unable to find a direct path to salvation . . . for the Apennine Mountains are blotting out the first light of dawn.
I pass behind the palazzo with its crenellated tower and one- handed clock . . . snaking through the early- morning vendors in Piazza San Firenze with their hoarse voices smelling of lampredotto and roasted olives. Crossing before the Bargello, I cut west toward the spire of the Badia and come up hard against the iron gate at the base of the stairs.
Here all hesitation must be left behind.
I turn the handle and step into the passage from which I know there will be no return. I urge my leaden legs up the narrow staircase . . . spiraling skyward on soft marble treads, pitted and worn.
The voices echo from below. Beseeching.
They are behind me, unyielding, closing in.
They do not understand what is coming . . . nor what I have done for them!
Ungrateful land!
As I climb, the visions come hard . . . the lustful bodies writhing in fiery rain, the gluttonous souls floating in excrement, the treacherous villains frozen in Satan's icy grasp.
I climb the final stairs and arrive at the top, staggering near dead into the damp morning air. I rush to the head- high wall, peering through the slits. Far below is the blessed city that I have made my sanctuary from those who exiled me.
The voices call out, arriving close behind me. "What you've done is madness!"
Madness breeds madness.
"For the love of God," they shout, "tell us where you've hidden it!"
For precisely the love of God, I will not.
I stand now, cornered, my back to the cold stone. They stare deep into my clear green eyes, and their expressions darken, no longer cajoling, but threatening. "You know we have our methods. We can force you to tell us where it is."
For that reason, I have climbed halfway to heaven.
Without warning, I turn and reach up, curling my fingers onto the high ledge, pulling myself up, scrambling onto my knees, then standing. . . unsteady at the precipice. Guide me, dear Virgil, across the void.
They rush forward in disbelief, wanting to grab at my feet, but fearing they will upset my balance and knock me off. They beg now, in quiet desperation, but I have turned my back. I know what I must do.
Beneath me, dizzyingly far beneath me, the red tile roofs spread out like a sea of fire on the countryside, illuminating the fair land upon which giants once roamed . . . Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Botticelli.
I inch my toes to the edge.
"Come down!" they shout. "It's not too late!"
O, willful ignorants! Do you not see the future? Do you not grasp the splendor of my creation? The necessity?
I will gladly make this ultimate sacrifice . . . and with it I will extinguish your final hope of finding what you seek.
You will never locate it in time.
Hundreds of feet below, the cobblestone piazza beckons like a tranquil oasis. How I long for more time . . . but time is the one commodity even my vast fortunes cannot afford.
In these final seconds, I gaze down at the piazza, and I behold a sight that startles me.
I see your face.
You are gazing up at me from the shadows. Your eyes are mournful, and yet in them I sense a veneration for what I have accomplished. You understand I have no choice. For the love of Mankind, I must protect my masterpiece.
It grows even now . . . waiting . . . simmering beneath the bloodred waters of the lagoon that reflects no stars.
And so, I lift my eyes from yours and I contemplate the horizon. High above this burdened world, I make my final supplication.
Dearest God, I pray the world remembers my name not as a monstrous sinner, but as the glorious savior you know I truly am. I pray Mankind will understand the gift I leave behind.
My gift is the future.
My gift is salvation.
My gift is Inferno.
With that, I whisper my amen . . . and take my final step, into the abyss.
Chapter 1
The memories materialized slowly . . . like bubbles surfacing from the darkness of a bottomless well.
A veiled woman.
Robert Langdon gazed at her across a river whose churning waters ran red with blood. On the far bank, the woman stood facing him, motionless, solemn, her face hidden by a shroud. In her hand she gripped a blue tainia cloth, which she now raised in honor of the sea of corpses at her feet. The smell of death hung everywhere.
Seek, the woman whispered. And ye shall find.
Langdon heard the words as if she had spoken them inside his head. "Who are you?" he called out, but his voice made no sound.
Time grows short, she whispered. Seek and find.
Langdon took a step toward the river, but he could see the waters were bloodred and too deep to traverse. When Langdon raised his eyes again to the veiled woman, the bodies at her feet had multiplied. There were hundreds of them now, maybe thousands, some still alive, writhing in agony, dying unthinkable deaths . . . consumed by fire, buried in feces, devouring one another. He could hear the mournful cries of human suffering e
Inferno: A Novel (Robert Langdon) 煉獄 英文原版 [精裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書
陳丹青,1953年生於上海。中國當代最具影響力藝術傢、作傢、文藝評論傢,學者。畢業於中央美術學院。1970年—1978年輾轉贛南、蘇北農村插隊落戶,其間自習繪畫,是當時頗有名氣的“知青畫傢”。1980年以《西藏組畫》轟動中外藝術界,成為顛覆教化模式,並嚮歐洲溯源的發軔,被公認為具有劃時代意義的經典之作。繪畫之餘,齣版文學著作十餘部。陳丹青無論畫風與文風,都具有一種優雅而樸素;睿智而率真的氣質,洋溢著獨特的人格魅力。
評分他稱自己是加州理工學院的"卡薩諾瓦"(1725-1798,意大利冒險傢,以所寫的包括他的許多風流韻事的《自傳》而著稱,後來該詞被
評分"NCIS")患有嚴重的“與異性交往障礙癥”,有異性在場的時候他就無法說話,隻有在喝醉以後纔能自在地與女孩交流。
評分這本書還是不錯的值得買
評分一直想買的書,在網上看瞭很久。最後還是在京東上趕上圖書滿150減50的活動下單瞭,京東上的東西還是很放心的。
評分丹·布朗堪稱今日美國最著名暢銷書作傢。他的小說《達·芬奇密碼》自問世以來,一直高居《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜榜首。其父親是知名數學教授,母親則是宗教音樂傢,成長於這樣的特殊環境中,科學與宗教這兩種在人類曆史上看似如此截然不同卻又存在著韆絲萬縷關聯的信仰成為他的創作主題。2010年11月15日,“2010第五屆中國作傢富豪榜”子榜單外國作傢富豪榜首次發布,該榜統計瞭2000至2010十年間,外國作傢在中國大陸地區的版稅總收入,共有25位外國作傢上榜,丹·布朗以1800萬元人民幣版稅收入,榮登外國作傢富豪榜第3位,引發廣泛關注。
評分 評分還行吧。。。活動買的,就是配送瞭好久。從外地調
評分第一次買原版精裝書,有點失望,不如想象中的精緻。但是與平裝相比,書脊不容易翻壞。
Inferno: A Novel (Robert Langdon) 煉獄 英文原版 [精裝] pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載