红字
作者:【美】纳撒尼尔·霍桑
简介: 《红字》是由美国著名作家霍桑写于1850年的经典作品,被世界认为是其代表作。本作品的内容是17世纪美国麻省清教徒为背景而写。透过残忍的故事内容,作者试图探索合法性、原罪和犯罪等社会意识形态里的深层意义。 ...
SNOWFLAKES:BEST SHORT STORIES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 霍桑经典短篇小说(英文原版)
简介: Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts was an American short story writer and romance novelist. He is best known for his short stories and two widely read novels:The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables. Along with Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe much of Hawthorne's work belongs to the subgenre of Dark Romanticism.Young Hawthorne was a contemporary of fellow transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott. Hawthorne was part of this prominent circle of Massachusetts writers and philosophers. The transcendentalists believed in the “inherent goodness of both people and nature.” ...
简介: 19世纪美国浪漫主义作家霍桑的长篇小说。发表于1850年。《红字》讲述了发生在北美殖民时期的恋爱悲剧。女主人公海丝特·白兰嫁给了医生奇灵渥斯,他们之间却没有爱情。在孤独中白兰与牧师丁梅斯代尔相恋并生下女儿珠儿。白兰被当众惩罚,戴上标志“通奸”的红色A字示众。然而白兰坚贞不屈,拒不说出孩子的父亲。 小说惯用象征手法,人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩,在描写中又常把人的心理活动和直觉放在首位。因此,它不仅是美国浪漫主义小说的代表作,同时也被称作是美国心理分析小说的开创篇。 ...