The common reader, as Dr. Johnson implies, differs from the critic and the scholar. He is worse educated, and nature has not gifted him so generously. He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole — a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing (查看原文)
这个译本是所有译本里最好、最完整的,几乎全译了 The Common Reader I,II 的全部内容,只缺一篇。 The Common Reader I The Common Reader The Pastons and Chaucer On Not Knowing Greek The Elizabethan Lumber Room Notes on an Elizabethan Play Montaigne The Duchess ...
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The Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our book under our arms,"Look, these need no reward, We have nothing to give them here. They have loves reading. "万能的上帝看见我们胳肢窝里夹着我们心爱的书...
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0 有用 贾不遂 2008-12-27 10:21:17
就她看得出破绽 天才出版人
2 有用 陈楸帆 2011-01-09 12:43:30
所以当代人的问题是他们已经不再相信。他们中最真诚的人只会告诉我们发生在他自己身上的事情。他们不能创造一个世界,因为他们不能摆脱其他人。他们不会讲故事,因为他们不相信故事是真的。
2 有用 小波福娃 2007-10-11 15:58:13
不是这个版本
0 有用 夏 2009-05-25 10:39:19
没事看看
2 有用 曼仔 2018-04-09 16:38:23
重读依然觉得真好啊。她写乔叟,写古希腊戏剧,写伊丽莎白时代的戏剧,蒙田、伊夫林、笛福,都极生动,更不用讲那让我读了又读仍不断惊艳的她对奥斯丁、勃朗特姐妹、契诃夫、陀思妥耶夫斯基和托尔斯泰的评论文字,那样精准,又那样飞扬。张爱玲以通感写小说,而伍尔夫以通感写书评。