When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its ins ular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz,...
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its ins ular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world.
E•M•福斯特(Edward Morgan Forster,1879—1970),英国著名小说家、散文家和批评家,著名的人道主义者,毕业于剑桥大学国王学院,后被母校聘为荣誉研究员。主要作品有长篇小说《天使不敢涉足的地方》(1905)、《最漫长的旅程》(1907)、《看得见风景的房间》(1908)、《霍华德庄园》(1910)、《莫瑞斯》(创作于1913—1914年,1971年作者逝世后出版)、《印度之行》(1924);两部短篇小说集《天国公共马车》(1911)和《永恒的瞬间》(1928),后合为《福斯特短篇小说集》(1947);以及广受好评的小说评论专著《小说面面观》(1927,原为在剑桥大学的系列演讲)。
E•M•福斯特(Edward Morgan Forster,1879—1970),英国著名小说家、散文家和批评家,著名的人道主义者,毕业于剑桥大学国王学院,后被母校聘为荣誉研究员。主要作品有长篇小说《天使不敢涉足的地方》(1905)、《最漫长的旅程》(1907)、《看得见风景的房间》(1908)、《霍华德庄园》(1910)、《莫瑞斯》(创作于1913—1914年,1971年作者逝世后出版)、《印度之行》(1924);两部短篇小说集《天国公共马车》(1911)和《永恒的瞬间》(1928),后合为《福斯特短篇小说集》(1947);以及广受好评的小说评论专著《小说面面观》(1927,原为在剑桥大学的系列演讲)。
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm. (查看原文)
Penguin Classics(共1236册),
这套丛书还有
《The Shorter Poems》《The Penguin Book of Mermaids》《The Portrait of a Lady》《The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime》《Principles of Geology》
等
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The reading experience has been quite depressing, yet I was depressed in a positive way. The thoughts stretch on towards an exploration of the meaning of existence. How can an individual feel that he ...The reading experience has been quite depressing, yet I was depressed in a positive way. The thoughts stretch on towards an exploration of the meaning of existence. How can an individual feel that he or she has been recognized by this universe. Can we really understand each other? And above all, where is the salvation of misunderstanding?(展开)
E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India explores the difficulty in the mutual understanding and cohabitation of the British and the Indian people in British India in the early twentieth century. The major events centers on an alleged attempted rape. Dr. Aziz, t...
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I find this reading experience quite disturbing, for no one in this novel is adorable enough. Aziz is certainly the star of the book, his words, especially when he is disturbed, are quite sincere and sharp; however, most of the times he can make one so irri...
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抄录书中极短的一章。其间的文字有大美。交错的人,事,和物,走笔一处,又荡开去,起伏开合,大波浪里亦有细碎的水花闪烁。 Chapter 10 THE heat had leapt forward in the last hour, the street was deserted as if a catastrophe had cleaned off humanity during the in...
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0 有用 雪之梦 2015-06-29 20:43:15
小说写得精彩,电影也好看,情节很丰富。娃娃脸的女老师,温柔亲切,选的几本小说都很有趣,为我打开一扇小窗~南区六教的英语课,老师最后给了A :P
0 有用 花岛仙藏 2014-12-05 13:40:17
The reading experience has been quite depressing, yet I was depressed in a positive way. The thoughts stretch on towards an exploration of the meaning of existence. How can an individual feel that he ... The reading experience has been quite depressing, yet I was depressed in a positive way. The thoughts stretch on towards an exploration of the meaning of existence. How can an individual feel that he or she has been recognized by this universe. Can we really understand each other? And above all, where is the salvation of misunderstanding? (展开)
5 有用 冰冻橘子瓣婴宁 2012-08-22 18:36:38
每个人都是一座孤岛。无论是否被千万仞不可攀越的文化、种族、宗教与意识形态的屏障相隔,人类大概都永远会在偏见、误会、隐瞒、困惑的嫌隙中小心翼翼又假装无事地“安然”相处着。
0 有用 007v 2010-08-19 08:56:11
beautifully done
0 有用 有 猫 出 没 2012-12-15 17:59:28
隐喻和意向很棒的小说。