伊利亞隨筆續集
作者:查爾斯·蘭姆
類別:英文讀本
蘭姆的散文早已成為經典。這經典中都寫了些什麼呢?什麼都寫,涉及人生與社會的各個方面:讀書、論畫、說牌、敘舊、懷古、言情、修傳、拾軼……總之,社會百般無所不談。但其精彩還不在其題材和內容,而在他在這些題材和內容里發掘了賦予了新的意義。他作品有鮮明的個人特色,高度個性化的吐屬中包含了眾多不同的聲音,清淺通俗的表達中伴隨著凝重文雅的情調,親切易解的文句中而兼具著古香古色的氣氛,日常現實的題材中凝聚著傳統與文化的積淀,民俗與歷史的聯想,詩情與畫意的沾潤,因而比一般文人筆下的東西豐富得多,具有了多方面的廣闊與厚度。本文是一件多綵衣,一具百寶箱,一座眾生相的活畫廓和一部最迷人心魂的有趣的散文集。
圖書目錄
- PREFACE
- BLAKESMOOR IN H----HIRE
- POOR RELATIONS
- STAGE ILLUSION
- TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON
- ELLISTONIANA
- DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING
- THE OLD MARGATE HOY
- THE CONVALESCENT
- SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS
- CAPTAIN JACKSON
- THE SUPERANNUATED MAN
- THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING
- BARBARA S-----
- THE TOMBS IN THE ABBEY IN A LETTER TO R.S., ESQ.
- AMICUS REDIVIVUS
- SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY
- NEWSPAPERS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
- BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY IN THE PRODU
- REJOICINGS UPON THE NEW YEAR'S COMING OF AGE
- THE WEDDING
- THE CHILD-ANGEL, A Dream
- A DEATH-BED, In a letter to R. H. Esq. of B.
- OLD CHINA
- CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD
- POPULAR FALLACIES I.-THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWA
- POPULAR FALLACIES II. -- THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVE
- III. -- THAT A MAN MUST NOT LAUGH AT HIS OWN JEST
- IV. -- THAT SUCH A ONE SHOWS HIS BREEDING. -- THAT
- V. -- THAT THE POOR COPY THE VICES OF THE RICH
- VI. -- THAT ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST
- VII. -- OF TWO DISPUTANTS, THE WARMEST IS GENERALL
- VIII. -- THAT VERBAL ALLUSIONS ARE NOT WIT, BECAUS
- IX -- THAT THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST
- X. -- THAT HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME DOES
- XI. -- THAT WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE M
- XII. -- THAT HOME IS HOME THOUGH IT IS NEVER SO HO
- XIII. -- THAT YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG
- XIV. -- THAT WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK
- XV.-THAT WE SHOULD LIE DOWN WITH THE LAMB
- XVI.THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE
- I.-THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWARD