The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1961. The title story is sometimes considered the best story Hemingway ever wrote. All of the short stories included in this book were earlier published together in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.
The collection includes the following stories:
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
A Days Wait
The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
Fathers and Sons
In Another Country
The Killers
A Way Youll Never Be
Fifty Grand
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
名句摘抄:
如果他以谎言为生,他就应该试着以谎言而死。
If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it
作者介绍:
海明威美国小说家、诺贝尔文学奖获得者。海明威出生于美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥市郊区的奥克帕克,晚年在爱达荷州凯彻姆的家中自杀身亡。海明威代表作有《老人与海》、《太阳照样升起》、《永别了,武器》、《丧钟为谁而鸣》等,凭借《老人与海》获得1953年普利策奖及1954年诺贝尔文学奖。海明威被誉为美利坚民族的精神丰碑,并且是资讯体小说的创始人,他的笔锋一向以文坛硬汉著称。海明威的写作风格以简洁著称,对美国文学及20世纪文学的发展有极深远的影响。
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.
《Snow Flower and the Secret Fan雪花和秘扇》Lisa See;
作品简介:
《雪花和秘密的扇子》是邝丽莎写出了她迄今为止最棒的作品。它讲述了一个美丽与痛苦交织的传奇故事,一个刚刚逝去的真实而又充满神秘感的世界被完全呈现在我们面前。这是一个能够深深铭刻在你记忆深处的故事。随着书页在眼前翻阅,对于故事的记忆始终清晰可见。作品根据女书的流传范围及特点,在小说中塑造了百合和雪花两个主要人物,他们在七岁的时候,就是一对非常要好的朋友,在时光的流逝中,无论是经历了饥荒、动乱,还是遭遇到婚姻中的孤独与绝望,她们都能相互安慰,但当误解出现的时候,她们终生的友谊却突然面临着破裂的危险小说结构巧妙,作者不仅向西方介绍了中国的女书这一独特的文化现象,还栩栩如生地描绘出那个时代中国妇女所经受的种种痛。在字里行间,充满了对人物深切的同情,并探索了女性友谊这一人类关系中永恒的主题。
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a 2005 novel by Lisa See set in nineteenth century China. In her introduction to the novel, See writes that Lily, the narrator, was born in 1823 the third year of Emperor Daoguangs reign. The novel begins in 1903, when Lily is 80 years old. During her lifetime, Lily lives through the reigns of four emperors: Emperor Daoguang ; Emperor Xianfeng ; Emperor Tongzhi ; and Emperor Guangxu .
The novel received an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.
改编电影:
《雪花秘扇》是由美国福克斯探照灯公司及中国华谊兄弟、上海电影有限公司合作制作发行的剧情历史电影。电影由李冰冰、全智贤主演,于2011年6月24日在中国上映。《雪花秘扇》改编自美国华裔女作家邝丽莎的同名英文小说,讲述了分别发生在清末和当代两段女人之间的凄美委婉的感情故事。
《雪花秘扇》电影海报
作者介绍:
邝丽莎,美国作家、小说家,身上有八分之一的中国血统。她的代表作品有《花网》、《在金山上》等。她的作品《雪花和秘密的扇子》曾轰动一时。电影《雪花秘扇》就是根据她的这部小说改编。
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