巴比特ba bi te

作者：  (美)辛克莱·刘易斯(Sinclair Lewis)[著];王永年译=Babbitt

出版社：作家出版社,2006

简介：　　《巴比特》的主人公乔治•福兰斯比•巴比特是泽尼斯市一个生意兴旺的房地产经纪人。作者截取了巴比特生活中的一个横断面，以生动简练的文笔、鲜明的色彩、机智风趣的格调描绘了一幅二十年代美国中西部城市生活的风俗画，淋漓尽致地刻画了中层资产阶级的代表人物。泽尼斯虽然是一个虚构的名称，但有典型意义，可以被看成是美国任何一个城市，在那高度商业化的资本主义社会里，一切事物，包括人类精神文明的产物，都降为商品，医生、律师、教士、诗人和学者变成了资产阶级出钱招雇的雇佣劳动者，人与人之间没有别的联系，只有赤裸裸的利害关系和冷酷无情的“现金交易 ”。在小说中，巴比特曾几次试图挣脱家庭、事业和他内心世界令人窒息的单调和压抑限制，但由于自己精神空虚，性格软弱，每次都没有能超越社会环境和习俗的压力。 　　 《巴比特》一书出版以来，影响极广，主人公巴比特成了美国家喻户晓的人物，一般字典都把“巴比特”作为新词收入，用来形容当代美国典型的自以为是、夸夸其谈、虚荣势利、偏颇狭隘的市侩实业家。 　　 辛克莱•刘易斯非常熟悉美国社会和美国各阶层人物。熟悉可以产生轻蔑，也可以产生感情，刘易斯正是怀着对理想的美国的感情，讽刺、鞭挞了资产阶级的庸俗，栩栩如生地塑造了巴比特的典型形象，描绘了美国社会的众生相。直至今天，这部小说仍有其现实意义，有助于读者了解当代的美国。

特立独行的企鹅

作者：  杰里米刘易斯

出版社：人民文学出版社 2016年01月

简介：

大部分员工都艳羡莱恩的成就，他们关于企鹅的理想以及在企鹅工作给他们带来的自豪感弥补了低薪和艰苦的工作条件所带来的不快。伊莎贝尔·奎格丽（Isabel Quigly）一九四八年毕业于剑桥大学，进企鹅出版社当了一名编辑助理。她回忆道，当时办公室很冷，有时候她和同事不得不穿着大衣工作。但是莱恩不摆架子、不夸夸其谈的作风吸引了她。他去世前几年，那时她已离开公司多年，一次在地铁，他一眼认出了人群中的她——这个行为本身就是对当事人的一种赞誉——他大叫了一声“奎格丽!”然后走过车厢来问候她。莱恩希望员工们尝试任何事情，不管不顾他们是否能胜任、是否有专业知识。大卫·赫伯特（David Herbert）就是靠坚持不懈地写求职信而骗得企鹅的工作机会的。他写了那么多信，到最后莱恩都觉得自己有义务聘用他了。大卫·赫伯特对图书销售一无所知，不过有一天莱恩却告诉他：“我希望你明天上路（去卖书）。问我妻子借车——尽管她会不高兴——去矿区。他借来了莱蒂斯·莱恩的迷你莫里斯。不过尽管他在威尔士陡峭的山路上饱受颠簸劳碌之苦，赫伯特还是一本书都没卖得出去。后来尼古拉斯·佩夫斯纳很快就发现，汽车——或者说汽车不够用的问题——是企鹅人商量事情时常常提及的话题。驻伦敦的业务代表大卫·海基斯（David Hedges）有权使用迪克的罗孚车，而这辆车的所有者总是定期检查车上有没有刮痕、有无磨损。后来，迪克被派到墨尔本去管理澳大利亚分部，哈里·帕罗西恩被派到巴尔的摩，大量的时间和通信被用来讨论在全球范围内调用的二手车。

除了几个受人敬重的作家——特罗洛普（Trollope）、辛克莱·刘易斯（Sinclair Lewis）、狄更斯、罗伊·富勒（Roy Fuller）和P.G.沃德豪斯之外，作家们往往都不大会描写办公室的生活。不过一九四七年汤姆· 哈里森在他的《大众观察》中描写了哈芒斯沃斯的生活：八年前，企鹅特辑中的《大众观察下的不列颠》就是出自该组织手下，不过这篇报道仅供内部人士阅读。在报道的开头，作者就冷静地定义了企鹅的一般读者。大众观察团队在汉默史密斯、贝斯纳尔-格林、米德尔斯布勒和伍斯特这几个地方进行了大量调查，发现在提供反馈的受调查读者中，有41%的中产阶级、17%的工匠和8%的工人阅读企鹅出版的书籍，企鹅图书的读者中有44%的人受过不同种类的中等教育，然而有8%的人只接受过小学教育。另外，尽管那些从来不读书的人往往都是四十岁开外的工人阶级妇女，读塘鹅丛书的女性要比男性多。《大众观察》引用《论坛报》调查表明“企鹅特辑打入了一个全新的阅读市场。数百万从来都不相信社会主义宣传或工党政策的人发现他们受自己所阅读的书籍影响，一天一天走上了左倾的道路”。根据他们的调查，企鹅的读者投票给工党的可能性要比起那些不是企鹅读者的人高五倍。“毫无疑问”，《大众观察》宣称，“企鹅图书消费群是一个左倾的读者群”。

企鹅出版社**授权传记

*后的“绅士出版人” 改变世界出版史的人物

影响了英国人的品位、思想、知识，还有性格。

英国企鹅出版社创始人艾伦·莱恩（1902-1970），是20世纪*著名、*重要的出版人之一。1935年，他创立的企鹅出版社尝试以用一包烟的价格将伟大的书籍出售给千百万普通民众，由此开启了世界出版史的一次重大革命。

在莱恩身上，时代精神、出版人的文化责任和经济驱动这三者并行不悖，由此催生了企鹅出版社兼顾品质、风格和销量的出版精神。莱恩**次让《尤利西斯》在英国得以出版，并通过出版企鹅特辑推动了二战期间英国的反纳粹运动，而他为《查泰莱夫人的情人》的出版所作的努力，奠定了英国在1960年代的出版和思想自由。他一生的目标即是让原先被精英文化排斥在外的大众接受普遍、优质而彻底的文化启蒙。

在这本企鹅出版社**授权的官方传记中，作者杰里米·刘易斯回顾了艾伦·莱恩近半个世纪的奋斗史，讲述了企鹅出版社的演变和始末；在勾勒莱恩非凡而生动的一生的同时，亦细腻地记录了二十世纪重大的社会变革。

大街da jie

作者：  (美)辛克莱·路易斯(Sinclair Lewis)著;潘庆舲译

出版社：中国戏剧出版社,2005

简介：　　《浮士德》以18世纪到19世纪初期德国和欧洲的社会现实为背景，通过主人公努力追求的一生，概括了资产阶级上升时期先进的知识分子不满现实、努力探索人生意义和理想社会的全部过程。《天上序幕》是情节的开端。以宇宙为背景，展开了一场天帝和魔鬼靡非斯特关于人能否实现和怎样实现人生理想的问题的争论，并由此引起在浮士德身上下的赌注，从而确立了诗剧的基本主题。诗剧围绕这两个矛盾的解决，安排了浮士德的生活经历，大体可分为五个阶段：第一阶段，包括六场戏，主要描写老学究浮士德的新生。浮士德原本是一个中世纪的“饱学多闻”的“博士”、“导师”，但他感到自己的学识无助于救世济民，书斋生活也形同坐牢，违反自然。于是他决定“以净朗的精神，重把新生开始”。他和魔鬼靡非斯特赌定：尽量使他欲望满足，只要他说出“你真美呀，请停留一下！”他就死去。靡非斯特借魔女的药汤恢复了浮士德的青春，完成他从精神到肉体的复活。复活了的浮士德形象是一个新的资产阶级人道主义者。他摆脱了中世纪经院哲学的束缚，有强烈的入世思想，他不满现实社会，要为人类创造一个“真美”的世界。第二阶段，包括从“街头”到“监狱”共十九场，描写浮士德的爱情生活，开始了对人生和理想的探求。浮士德和玛甘泪的爱情是一场悲剧。悲剧的冲突是新兴资产阶级个性自由的要求和封建势力之间的矛盾。浮士德在这个阶段经历了贪恋情欲和克制欲望的矛盾，并从自我主义的泥淖中挣脱出来。第三阶段，包括第二部第一幕，描写浮士德的政治生活。靡非斯特引诱浮士德为封建朝廷进行服务，而浮士德的努力并不能挽救封建王朝的覆灭。政治生活的失败，说明高官厚禄荣华富贵并不是他所追求的美。第四阶段，包括二、三幕。描写浮士德对美的追求。浮士德与“美”的化身的海伦结了婚，但婚姻最后以失败告终。说明只有形式而无灵魂的古典艺术并非美。浮士德对“美”的追求和结合，虽是探求改革社会的理想，但由于它完全脱离社会现实，因此不会有什么结果。 　　第五阶段，包括四、五幕，描写浮士德理想的实现。浮士德终身探索，最后发现与人民进行创造性的劳动、改造自然，创造自由国土才是美。他为自己努力创建的海边王国感到满意，认为自己的理想已经实现。随即喊出：“你真美呀，请停留一下：”按照誓约，浮士德倒地死去。但是，他的灵魂并不归魔鬼所有而被天使接到天上。 　　浮士德探索的五个历程，概括了从文艺复兴到十九世纪初的欧洲和德国资产阶级知识分子精神探索的道路，浮士德自强不息地探索真理、追求美的过程，是挣脱中世纪愚昧状态、克服内在与外在矛盾、创建资产阶级理想王国的启蒙过程，体现了上升时期资产阶级的意识形态。浮士德的一生贯穿着他与靡非斯特的矛盾。他的内心反抗和妥协的两重性决定他既容易接受魔鬼的引诱，又能不断战胜诱惑，在歧途和错误中克服自身的矛盾而达到至善。 　　在浮士德身上，体现出一种精神，即肯定人生的积极意义，以行动投身实践的创造精神；敢于否定一切丑恶事物与错误思想的否定精神；以及追求理想生活的自强不息的战斗精神。

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Introduces the concept of irony fatigue as humorists' internal conflict between the social critic who demands to be taken seriously and the comedian who can never be. Examines the work of eight American literary and performing comedians from the past three centuries, including, Sinclair Lewis, Garrison Keillor, Benjamin Franklin, Lenny Bruce, and Kurt Vonnegut. Also looks at the conflict between Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.  

大街da jie

作者：  (美)辛克莱·路易斯(Sinclair Lewis)著;潘庆舲译

出版社：长江文艺出版社,2008

简介：　　 《大街》是诺贝尔文学奖获奖作家的名著。 　　 小说以第一次世界大战前后美国一个小镇为背景，描写一位城市女知识 　　分子卡罗尔嫁到小镇上成为一名乡村医生太太。起初她满怀热情，企图改造 　　这个传统保守势力束缚的小镇，但遇到巨大的阻力。她的思想与小镇的现实 　　格格不入，以至被迫离开小镇去华盛顿找工作，但最终仍不得不回到小镇上 　　。继续面对她无法改变的旧传统势力。 　　 小说以辛辣的笔触对美国社会现实进行嘲笑和讽刺，因而受到当时保守 　　人士的指责和攻击，并在美国引起巨大争议。可喜的是，《大街》深为广大 　　读者喜爱，一年内重印28次，大街一词也因此被赋予特别的含义而收入词典 　　。 　　

巴比特ba bi te

作者：  (美)辛克莱·刘易士(Sinclair Lewis)[著];李斯等译

出版社：时代文艺出版社,2010

简介：诺贝尔文学奖，以其人类理想主义的伟大精神，为世界文学提供了永恒 的标准，其中所包含的诗、小说、散文、戏剧、哲学、史学等不同体裁、不 同风格的杰作，流光溢彩，各具特色，全面展现了20世纪世界文学的总体格 局。吉卜林、梅特林克、泰戈尔、法朗士、肖伯纳、叶芝、纪德……一个个 激动人心的名字，《尼尔斯骑鹅旅行记》、《青鸟》、《吉檀迦利》、《福 尔赛世家》，《六个寻找作者的剧中人》、《伪币制造者》、《巴比特》… …一部部辉煌灿烂的名著，洋洋大观，百川归海，全部汇聚于这套诺贝尔文 学奖获奖者文集之中。全新的译文，真实的获奖内幕，细致生动的作家及作 品介绍，既展现了作家的创作轨迹，作品的风格特色，也揭示了文学的内在 规律，题材广泛、手法各异，令人在尽情享受艺术魅力的同时，更令人在各 种不同的思想境界中获得不同程度的启迪，从而领会人生的真谛。 这些路数迥异的作家，虽语种不同、观念不同、背景不同，但他们那高 擎理想主义旗帜的雄姿是相同的，他们那奋勇求索的自由精神是相同的。而 他们的雄姿，无不闪现于他们的作品之中；他们的精神，无不渗透于这些作 品的字里行间。这套丛书所承载的，正是他们那令万更多>>

Babbitt /

作者：  Sinclair Lewis ; with an introduction by John Wickersham.

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简介：George Babbitt, a successful middle-aged businessman living in 1920s Ohio, is shocked when his best friend is convicted of murder.

Sister Carrie /

作者：  Theodore Dreiser ; with an introduction by E. L. Doctorow.

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简介：　　 　　 　　 　　 　　sister carrie, theodore dreiser\'s revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. the story of carrie meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what dreiser\'s wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. times change, and we now have a restored "author\'s cut" of sister carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time dreiser was. first and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century america. that\'s impressive in and of itself, but dreiser doesn\'t stop there. digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing. 　　dreiser\'s story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. this sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. on the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates dreiser\'s intentions. if you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you\'ll be rewarded by sister carrie\'s last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book\'s central characters. here dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --rebecca gleason --this text refers to the paperback edition. 　　 　　book description 　　 　　"american writing, before and after dreiser\'s time, differed almost as much as biology before and after darwin," said h. l. mencken. sister carrie, dreiser\'s great first novel, transformed the conventional "fallen woman" story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. na?ve young caroline meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to new york. both its subject matter and dreiser\'s unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made sister carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 　　 "sister carrie came to housebound and airless america like a great 　　free western wind, and to our 　　stuffy domesticity gave us the first 　　fresh air since mark twain and whitman," noted sinclair lewis. "dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by 　　a kind of historical accident if 　　the modern library has played a significant role in american cultural life for the better part of a century. the series was founded in 1917 by the publishers boni and liveright and eight years later acquired by bennett cerf and donald klopfer. it provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, random house. the modern library has been a staple of the american book trade, providing readers with afford- 　　able hardbound editions of impor- 　　tant works of literature and thought. for the modern library\'s seventy- 　　fifth anniversary, random house redesigned the series, restoring 　　as its emblem the running torch- .　　bearer created by lucian bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- 　　gurating a new program of selecting titles. the modern library continues to provide the world\'s best books, at the best prices. 　　 　　book dimension 　　height (mm) 175 width (mm) 107 　　 　　

Main Street / 1st Carroll & Graf ed.

作者：  Sinclair Lewis.

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简介： 在线阅读本书 The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Streetshattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and—worst of all—the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds. Lewis’s portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. His subtle characterizations and intimate details of small-town America make Main Streeta complex and compelling work and established Lewis as an important figure in twentieth-century American literature.

Sister Carrie

作者：  Theodore Dreiser

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简介：　　 　　 　　 　　 　　sister carrie, theodore dreiser\'s revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. the story of carrie meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what dreiser\'s wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. times change, and we now have a restored "author\'s cut" of sister carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time dreiser was. first and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century america. that\'s impressive in and of itself, but dreiser doesn\'t stop there. digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing. 　　dreiser\'s story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. this sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. on the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates dreiser\'s intentions. if you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you\'ll be rewarded by sister carrie\'s last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book\'s central characters. here dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --rebecca gleason --this text refers to the paperback edition. 　　 　　book description 　　 　　"american writing, before and after dreiser\'s time, differed almost as much as biology before and after darwin," said h. l. mencken. sister carrie, dreiser\'s great first novel, transformed the conventional "fallen woman" story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. na?ve young caroline meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to new york. both its subject matter and dreiser\'s unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made sister carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 　　 "sister carrie came to housebound and airless america like a great 　　free western wind, and to our 　　stuffy domesticity gave us the first 　　fresh air since mark twain and whitman," noted sinclair lewis. "dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by 　　a kind of historical accident if 　　the modern library has played a significant role in american cultural life for the better part of a century. the series was founded in 1917 by the publishers boni and liveright and eight years later acquired by bennett cerf and donald klopfer. it provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, random house. the modern library has been a staple of the american book trade, providing readers with afford- 　　able hardbound editions of impor- 　　tant works of literature and thought. for the modern library\'s seventy- 　　fifth anniversary, random house redesigned the series, restoring 　　as its emblem the running torch- .　　bearer created by lucian bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- 　　gurating a new program of selecting titles. the modern library continues to provide the world\'s best books, at the best prices. 　　 　　book dimension 　　height (mm) 175 width (mm) 107 　　 　　

Main street : the story of Carol Kennicott /

作者：  Sinclair Lewis ; with an introduction and notes by Martin Bucco.

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简介：The wife of a small town doctor dreams of intiating socialreforms and introducing the art of literature to her ruralcommunity

Main street

作者：  (美)辛克莱·刘易斯(Sinclair Lewis)著;樊培绪译

出版社：译林出版社,2005

简介：　　本书是美国第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的作家辛克莱·刘易斯的代表作，问世后迅速风靡欧美国家，一年内重印28次，被称为“20世纪美国出版史上最轰动的事件”。此书还成为了当时堪萨斯州各级学校学生的必读教材。小说以第一次世界大战前后美国一个小镇为背景，描写一位城市女知识分子卡罗尔嫁到小镇上成为一名乡村医生太太后的故事。小说主题新颖，风格别致，洋溢着浓郁的美国中西部地方风情，评论家称此书是美国文学中描述地方风情最出色的文学作品。 　　 　　小说以第一次世界大战前后美国一个小镇为背景，描写一位城市女知识分子卡罗尔嫁到小镇上成为一名乡村医生太太。起初她满怀热情，企图“改造”这个受传统保守势力束缚的小镇，但遇到巨大的阻力。她的思想与小镇的现实格格不入，以至被迫离开小镇去华盛顿找工作，但最终仍不得不回到小镇上，继续面对她无法改变的旧传统势力。 　　小说以辛辣的笔触对美国社会现实进行嘲笑和讽刺，因而受到当时保守人士的指责和攻击，并在美国引起巨大争议。可喜的是，《大街》深为广大读者喜爱，一年内重印28次，“大街”一词也因此被赋予特别的含义而收入词典。 　　本书是最新全译本，并附有较详尽的注释。

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简介：　　Starred Review. Egan tells an extraordinary tale in this visceral account of how America's great, grassy plains turned to dust, and how the ferocious plains winds stirred up an endless series of "black blizzards" that were like a biblical plague: "Dust clouds boiled up, ten thousand feet or more in the sky, and rolled like moving mountains" in what became known as the Dust Bowl. But the plague was man-made, as Egan shows: the plains weren't suited to farming, and plowing up the grass to plant wheat, along with a confluence of economic disaster—the Depression—and natural disaster—eight years of drought—resulted in an ecological and human catastrophe that Egan details with stunning specificity. He grounds his tale in portraits of the people who settled the plains: hardy Americans and immigrants desperate for a piece of land to call their own and lured by the lies of promoters who said the ground was arable. Egan's interviews with survivors produce tales of courage and suffering: Hazel Lucas, for instance, dared to give birth in the midst of the blight only to see her baby die of "dust pneumonia" when her lungs clogged with the airborne dirt. With characters who seem to have sprung from a novel by Sinclair Lewis or Steinbeck, and Egan's powerful writing, this account will long remain in readers' minds. (Dec. 14) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 　　

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简介：The 1920s in America was a decade of rebellion, reform, and reaction as traditional Victorian values came under attack from all sides. Black leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, feminists like Alice Paul, politicians like Robert La Follette, and social scientists like Franz Boas and Margaret Mead all assaulted fundamental inequalities inherited from the nineteenth century. A host of scientific breakthroughs eroded the foundations of the older world view, and cultural innovations like jazz challenged the nineteenth-century morality of most middle class Americans and also provoked spirited defenses of tradition by extremists like the Ku Klux Klan. In this wide-ranging and vividly written book, Stanley Coben introduces a new hypothesis about the reasons for the tumultuous cultural changes during the 1920s. He begins with the Victorian concept of "character," the word which assured Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that men were men, women were wives and mothers, and homes were sanctuaries. (Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister Catherine wrote that "She who is the mother and housekeeper in a large family is the sovereign of an empire.") Coben doesn't spare us the seamy underside of the Victorian ideal either, such as the racism revealed by the Oxford professor who declared to an approving American audience in 1882 that "the best remedy for whatever is amiss in America would be if every Irishman should kill a negro and be hanged for it." Nor does he hesitate to describe the failures of those who rebelled against tradition, like the early supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment, or the farmer-labor-progressive presidential coalition of 1924. Rebellion Against Victorianismis particularly enlightening on cultural matters, showing how artforms of the '20s--like jazz or the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis--were part of the rebellion. The book includes a fascinating chapter-length discussion of the Ku Klux Klan which reveals that the Klan in the 1920s was in no way a Southern, fringe group--in fact, the K.K.K. had more members in Connecticut than in Mississippi. The Klan's defense of Victorian "character" spoke to millions of Americans who found themselves shaken up by the cultural revolution going on around them. In illuminating the events and personalities of this water-shed decade, Coben draws with equal confidence from the realms of culture and politics, science and society. His book brings an alternative perspective to the impetus for change in American life, demonstrating that many of the contradictions which inspired the rebellion against Victorianism still exist today. The results are sometimes startling, but always intriguing.

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简介：　　" Lily Brewster and her brother Robert have all the appearances of being filthy rich, even though the family fortune went out the window with the crash of 1929. But thanks to great-uncle Horatio, who left them Grace and Favor Cottage, a huge mansion on the Hudson not far from Franklin Roosevelt's Hyde Park, the Brewsters live in the style to which they had become accustomed--with a few troublesome limitations."To make sure Lily and Robert didn't go back to being society bums, crafty old Horatio attached some strings to his bequest--and a penny-pinching attorney to manage the funds. Now the poor Brewsters have to actually" work" for money to survive, and Lily comes up with a brilliant scheme. They can turn a profit while they hobnob with their society friends, luring them to" Grace and Favor "for a paying weekend with the promise of big-name celebrities as guests. If Sinclair Lewis hadn't been working on a new book, he might have joined the party; if Amelia Earhart hadn't been busy planning her cross-Atlantic flight, history might not have its own unsolved mystery. And if the Brewsters' celebrity/society bash hadn't been short on luminaries and long on snide barbs and open hostility among the guests, the glittering, glamorous affair might not have turned into a whodunit with one guest dead, one missing, and Lily and Robert chasing a murderer who is ready to strike again.　　

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers. This book puts forward an argument that fiction yields rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding.   Publisher Summary 2 In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a na茂ve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, questioning whether literature had any real reference to a world outside its own language, while traditional historians challenged whether novels gave a trustworthy representation of history and society.In this book, Morris Dickstein reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of a wide array of twentieth-century writers, from realists like Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, through modernists like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, to wildly inventive postwar writers like Saul Bellow, G眉nter Grass, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Philip Roth, and Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez. Dickstein argues that fiction will always yield rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding. Writers refract the world through their forms and sensibilities. He shows how the work of these writers recaptures--yet also transforms--the life around them, the world inside them, and the universe of language and feeling they share with their readers.Through lively and incisive essays directed to general readers as well as students of literature, Dickstein redefines the literary landscape--a landscape in which reading has for decades been devalued by society and distorted by theory. Having begun with a reconsideration of realism, the book concludes with several essays probing the strengths and limitations of a historical approach to literature and criticism.  

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简介：John Updike's sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading "General Considerations," books, poker, cars, and the American libido. The last, informal section of Due Considerations assembles more or less autobiographical pieces--reminiscences, friendly forewords, comments on the author's own recent works, responses to probing questions. In between, many books are considered, some in introductions--to such classics as Walden, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Mabinogion--and many more in reviews, usually for The New Yorker. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Wizard of Oz. Contemporary American and English writers--Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan-- receive attentive and appreciative reviews, as do Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garc芒ia M芒arquez, Haruki Murakami, G猫unter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk. In factual waters, Mr. Updike ponders the sinking of the Lusitania and the "unsinkable career" of Coco Chanel, the adventures of Lord Byron and Iris Murdoch, the sexual revolution and the advent of female Biblical scholars, and biographies of Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Marcel Proust, and S虏ren Kierkegaard.--From publisher's description.

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简介： 序（威廉·范·俄康纳William Van O'Connor），张爱玲译；伊德丝·华顿Edith Wharton（路易·奥金克洛斯著），於梨华译；辛克莱·刘易斯Harry Sinclair Lewis（马克·邵拉著），张爱玲译；斯葛特·菲茨杰拉尔德F. Scott Fitzgerald（查尔斯·显恩著），林以亮译；威廉·福克纳William Faulkner（威廉·范·俄康纳），叶珊译；欧涅斯·海明威Ernest Hemingway（菲力蒲·扬著），张爱玲译；汤麦斯·沃尔夫Thomas Wolfe（C·休·赫尔曼著），张爱玲译；拿撒奈·韦斯特Nathan Weinstein（史坦利·E·希曼著），叶珊译。

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简介：This volume brings together a representative selection of the best critical essays on the work of 20 eminent American fiction writers whose principal volumes were published between the two wars. Beginning with Bloom's overview of the best writers of the period--Cather, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, and West--the essays examine how writers of the period influenced one other, and what effect they had on American prose fiction, both as individuals and as a group. They also reveal the complexities of the period, including its determinism, new literary styles, and the Afro-American literary tradition. Other writers analyzed include Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, and Zora Neale Hurston. ISBN 0-87754-962-1 :

特立独行的企鹅

作者：  杰里米刘易斯

出版社：人民文学出版社 2016年01月

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大部分员工都艳羡莱恩的成就，他们关于企鹅的理想以及在企鹅工作给他们带来的自豪感弥补了低薪和艰苦的工作条件所带来的不快。伊莎贝尔·奎格丽（Isabel Quigly）一九四八年毕业于剑桥大学，进企鹅出版社当了一名编辑助理。她回忆道，当时办公室很冷，有时候她和同事不得不穿着大衣工作。但是莱恩不摆架子、不夸夸其谈的作风吸引了她。他去世前几年，那时她已离开公司多年，一次在地铁，他一眼认出了人群中的她——这个行为本身就是对当事人的一种赞誉——他大叫了一声“奎格丽!”然后走过车厢来问候她。莱恩希望员工们尝试任何事情，不管不顾他们是否能胜任、是否有专业知识。大卫·赫伯特（David Herbert）就是靠坚持不懈地写求职信而骗得企鹅的工作机会的。他写了那么多信，到最后莱恩都觉得自己有义务聘用他了。大卫·赫伯特对图书销售一无所知，不过有一天莱恩却告诉他：“我希望你明天上路（去卖书）。问我妻子借车——尽管她会不高兴——去矿区。他借来了莱蒂斯·莱恩的迷你莫里斯。不过尽管他在威尔士陡峭的山路上饱受颠簸劳碌之苦，赫伯特还是一本书都没卖得出去。后来尼古拉斯·佩夫斯纳很快就发现，汽车——或者说汽车不够用的问题——是企鹅人商量事情时常常提及的话题。驻伦敦的业务代表大卫·海基斯（David Hedges）有权使用迪克的罗孚车，而这辆车的所有者总是定期检查车上有没有刮痕、有无磨损。后来，迪克被派到墨尔本去管理澳大利亚分部，哈里·帕罗西恩被派到巴尔的摩，大量的时间和通信被用来讨论在全球范围内调用的二手车。

除了几个受人敬重的作家——特罗洛普（Trollope）、辛克莱·刘易斯（Sinclair Lewis）、狄更斯、罗伊·富勒（Roy Fuller）和P.G.沃德豪斯之外，作家们往往都不大会描写办公室的生活。不过一九四七年汤姆· 哈里森在他的《大众观察》中描写了哈芒斯沃斯的生活：八年前，企鹅特辑中的《大众观察下的不列颠》就是出自该组织手下，不过这篇报道仅供内部人士阅读。在报道的开头，作者就冷静地定义了企鹅的一般读者。大众观察团队在汉默史密斯、贝斯纳尔-格林、米德尔斯布勒和伍斯特这几个地方进行了大量调查，发现在提供反馈的受调查读者中，有41%的中产阶级、17%的工匠和8%的工人阅读企鹅出版的书籍，企鹅图书的读者中有44%的人受过不同种类的中等教育，然而有8%的人只接受过小学教育。另外，尽管那些从来不读书的人往往都是四十岁开外的工人阶级妇女，读塘鹅丛书的女性要比男性多。《大众观察》引用《论坛报》调查表明“企鹅特辑打入了一个全新的阅读市场。数百万从来都不相信社会主义宣传或工党政策的人发现他们受自己所阅读的书籍影响，一天一天走上了左倾的道路”。根据他们的调查，企鹅的读者投票给工党的可能性要比起那些不是企鹅读者的人高五倍。“毫无疑问”，《大众观察》宣称，“企鹅图书消费群是一个左倾的读者群”。

企鹅出版社**授权传记

*后的“绅士出版人” 改变世界出版史的人物

影响了英国人的品位、思想、知识，还有性格。

英国企鹅出版社创始人艾伦·莱恩（1902-1970），是20世纪*著名、*重要的出版人之一。1935年，他创立的企鹅出版社尝试以用一包烟的价格将伟大的书籍出售给千百万普通民众，由此开启了世界出版史的一次重大革命。

在莱恩身上，时代精神、出版人的文化责任和经济驱动这三者并行不悖，由此催生了企鹅出版社兼顾品质、风格和销量的出版精神。莱恩**次让《尤利西斯》在英国得以出版，并通过出版企鹅特辑推动了二战期间英国的反纳粹运动，而他为《查泰莱夫人的情人》的出版所作的努力，奠定了英国在1960年代的出版和思想自由。他一生的目标即是让原先被精英文化排斥在外的大众接受普遍、优质而彻底的文化启蒙。

在这本企鹅出版社**授权的官方传记中，作者杰里米·刘易斯回顾了艾伦·莱恩近半个世纪的奋斗史，讲述了企鹅出版社的演变和始末；在勾勒莱恩非凡而生动的一生的同时，亦细腻地记录了二十世纪重大的社会变革。