• 导读
  • 《一个国际事件》是美国著名亨利·詹姆斯的作品,它可与其另一著作《戴茜·米勒》相媲美。小说讲述了一位英国男人和美国女孩的爱情故事。英国男人对美国女孩一见钟情,随即展开热烈追求,但却屡遭女孩的拒绝的故事。小说沿袭了詹姆斯惯用的主题:美国人和欧洲人之间交往的问题。

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  • 内容简介
  • 《一个国际事件》是美国著名亨利·詹姆斯的作品,它可与其另一著作《戴茜·米勒》相媲美。小说讲述了一位英国男人和美国女孩的爱情故事。英国男人对美国女孩一见钟情,随即展开热烈追求,但却屡遭女孩的拒绝的故事。小说沿袭了詹姆斯惯用的主题:美国人和欧洲人之间交往的问题。

    Four years ago—in 1874—two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Disembarking upon the wharf, they climbed into one of those huge high-hung coaches which convey passengers to the hotels, and with a great deal of bouncing and bumping, took their course through Broadway. The midsummer aspect of New York is not, perhaps, the most favorable one; still, it is not without its picturesque and even brilliant side. Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than the interminable avenue, rich in incongruities, through which our two travelers advance—looking out on each side of them at the comfortable animation of the sidewalks, the high-colored, heterogeneous architecture, the huge white marble faades glittering in the strong, crude light, and bedizened with gilded lettering, the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, the vendors of cooling fluids, the white trousers and big straw hats of the policemen, the tripping gait of the modish young persons on the pavement, the general brightness, newness, juvenility, both of people and things.

  • 作者简介
  • 亨利·詹姆斯(HenryJames,1843年4月15日-1916年2月28日),英国以及美国的作家。亨利·詹姆斯出身于纽约的上层知识分子家庭,父兄都是美国颇具声望的哲学家。由于家境富裕,亨利·詹姆斯从小受到良好的教育,掌握多种语言。詹姆斯本人长期旅居欧洲,对19世纪末美国和欧洲的上层生活有细致入微的观察。詹姆斯是同性恋者。他与同时代的美国女作家伊迪丝·华顿保持着长期的友谊。詹姆斯的主要作品是小说,此外也写了许多文学评论、游记、传记和剧本。他的小说常写美国人和欧洲人之间交往的问题;成人的罪恶如何影响并摧残了纯洁、聪慧的儿童;物质与精神之间的矛盾;艺术家的孤独,作家和艺术家的生活等。

    Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 — 28 February 1916) was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

  • 目录
    • PART I
    • PART II