马克.吐温自传

章节摘录

I have not come across a better man than he was. I washis guest for two or three months every year, from the fourth year after weremoved to Hannibal till I was eleven or twelve years old. I have neverconsciously used him or his wife in a book but his farm has come veryhandy to me in literature once or twice. In Huck Finn and in Tom Sawyer,Detective I moved it down to Arkansas. It was all of six hundred milesbut it was no trouble; it was not a Very large farm——five hundred acres,perhaps——but I could have done it if it had been twice as large. And asfor the morality of it, I cared nothing for that; I would move a state if theexigencies of literature required it.It was a heavenly place for a boy, that farm of my uncle John's. Thehouse was a double log one, with a spacious floor （roofed in） connectingit with the kitchen. In the summer the table was set in the middle of thatshady and breezy floor, and the sumptuous meals——well, it makes me cryto think of them. Fried chicken, roast pig; wild and tame turkeys, ducksand geese; venison just killed; squirrels, rabbits, pheasants, partridges,prairie-chickens; biscuits, hot batter cakes, hot buckwheat cakes, hot"wheat bread," hot rolls, hot corn pone; fresh corn boiled on the ear,succotash, butter-beans, string-beans, tomatoes, peas, Irish potatoes, sweetpotatoes; buttermilk, sweet milk, "clabber"; watermelons, muskmelons,cantaloupes——all fresh from the garden; apple pie, peach pie, pumpkin pie,apple dumplings, peach cobbler——I can't remember the rest. The way thatthe things were cooked was perhaps the main splendor——particularly acertain few of the dishes. For instance.……

前言

In this Autobiography I shall keep in mind the fact that I am speakingfrom the grave. I am literally speaking from the grave, because Ishall be dead when the book issues from the press.I speak from the grave rather than with my living tongue for a goodreason: I can speak thence freely. When a man is writing a book dealingwith the privacies of his life——a book which is to be read while he is stillalive——he shrinks from speaking his whole frank mind; all his attemptsto do it fail; he recognizes that he is trying to do a thing which is whollyimpossible to a human being. The frankest and freest and privatest productof the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitlessfreedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger isgoing to see what he is writing. Sometimes there is a breach-of-promiseease by and by; and when he sees his letter in print it makes him cruellyuncomfortable and he perceives that he never would have unbosomedhimself to that large and honest degree if he had known that he was writingfor the public. He cannot find anything in the letter that was not true,honest and respectworthy; but no matter, he would have been very muchmore reserved if he had known he was writing for print.It has seemed to me that I could be as frank and free and unembarrassedas a love letter if I knew that what I was writing could be exposed to no eyeuntil I was dead, and unaware and indifferent.

内容概要

《马克•吐温自传》是马克•吐温晚年最重要的著作，美国文学中的经典，它给我们带来了当时美国的风情和气息，马克•吐温式幽默的智慧，还有淡淡的怀念之情。

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《马克·吐温自传》是世界文学史上的精品。古往今来，一个著名作家在创作过程中，一开始便宣布不准在生前发表其自传，只准在死后发表，以保证自传中的千言万语，句句说的是真话，这在文学史上还无先例。不少自传与传记，津津乐道于显要人物，独独对平头老百姓的生活与命运没有多大兴趣，这和幽默大师马克·吐温的平民意识与民主意识形成了极大反差。马克·吐温为《自传》选材的原则就是挑选平头百姓生活中颇具生命力的事情，仿佛可笑、甚至怪诞，而又含有深意、值得玩味，这也就是具有马克·吐温式幽默情趣的东西。这样的幽默，曾使世界上很多读者为之向往。《大师经典文库》系列包括世界著名的思想家、哲学家、历史学家和心理学家的经典学术专著，以及我国古代哲学典籍的权威英译本，为广大英语学习者提供了高质量的阅读文本，也是各类社会科学研究工作者必备的学术资料。

作者简介

《马克·吐温自传》内容简介：In this Autobiography I shall keep in mind the fact that I am speakingfrom the grave. I am literally speaking from the grave, because Ishall be dead when the book issues from the press.

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