Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of "American Supernatural Tales", "The White People" and "Other Weird Stories" is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented and on edge. From...
Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of "American Supernatural Tales", "The White People" and "Other Weird Stories" is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented and on edge. From the first page, Machen turns even fundamental truths upside-down, as his character Ambrose explains, "there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin, who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed'", setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic.
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"... There are many, I think, who eat dry crusts and drink water, with a joy infinitely sharper than anything within the experience of the 'practical' epicure."
"You are speaking of the saints?"
"Yes, and of the sinners, too. I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely good; but the supremely wicked, necessarily, have their portion in it. The merely carnal, sensual man can no more be a great sinner than he can be a great saint. Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant."
"And you think the great sinner, then, will be an ascetic, as well as the gre... (查看原文)
Penguin Classics(共1224册)，
这套丛书还有
《The Treasure of the City of Ladies》《Principles of Geology》《The Most Venerable Book (Shang Shu)》《Leviathan》《A Fairly Honourable Defeat》
等
。
0 有用 Screamy赵爷 2014-07-27 23:24:58
中晚期的文风明显更好。。。但整体来说就是嫌弃他太Victorian了
0 有用 ゆめごこち 2018-03-25 13:00:36
前面都还不错，就是最后一个故事很期待那神秘的“发光大树”到底是什么，结果是你妈国王退位了动物都疯了满天飞扑棱蛾子？excuse me?
0 有用 Khamul 2016-02-23 10:05:26
除了没收录"The Great God Pan"，成名作基本都在这里了。