• 导读
  • 此书为史蒂文森的游记回忆录三部分的中间一部分,此部分以移民为开端结束于棚户区的居民。此书包含十二个章节,每个故事又自成体系。主题章节很长又分为七个部分,描写了史蒂文森作为移民和许多其他欧洲移民到达纽约,以及他乘坐移民列车从纽约到达旧金山的火车旅程。史蒂文森描述这列火车分成三个部分,一列用来给妇女和小孩,一列给男性,另一列给中国人。他记录到欧洲移民小看中国人的肮脏,而事实上,中国乘客是最干净的。

  • 内容简介
  • 此书为史蒂文森的游记回忆录三部分的中间一部分,此部分以移民为开端结束于棚户区的居民。此书包含十二个章节,每个故事又自成体系。主题章节很长又分为七个部分,描写了史蒂文森作为移民和许多其他欧洲移民到达纽约,以及他乘坐移民列车从纽约到达旧金山的火车旅程。史蒂文森描述这列火车分成三个部分,一列用来给妇女和小孩,一列给男性,另一列给中国人。他记录到欧洲移民小看中国人的肮脏,而事实上,中国乘客是最干净的。

    Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters.

    The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train. Stevenson describes the train as having three sections: one for women and children, one for men, and one for Chinese. He notes that while the Europeans looked down on the Chinese for being dirty, in fact the Chinese carriages were the freshest and their passengers the cleanest.

  • 作者简介
  • 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森(Robert Louis Stevenson,1850-1894), 英国著名小说家、诗人,英国新浪漫主义文学代表之一。他出生于苏格兰的爱丁堡,从小爱好文学,富于幻想;成年后,放弃了律师职业,专门从事写作。史蒂文森很早就染上结核病,一生与海绝缘,可是他却创作了许多与海盗和冒险有关的小说,此外另有多部游记。代表作品有:《金银岛》(1883)、《化身博士》(1886)、《内河航程》(1878)等。

    Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

    A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

  • 目录
    • CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS
    • CHAPTER II THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL
    • CHAPTER III FONTAINEBLEAU-VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS
    • CHAPTER IV EPILOGUE TO "AN INLAND VOYAGE"
    • CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES
    • CHAPTER VI RANDOM MEMORIES
    • CHAPTER VII THE LANTERN-BEARERS
    • CHAPTER VIII A CHAPTER ON DREAMS
    • CHAPTER IX BEGGARS
    • CHAPTER X LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART
    • CHAPTER XI PULVIS ET UMBRA
    • CHAPTER XII A CHRISTMAS SERMON
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