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  While Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That honest tradesman’s manner of receiving the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the leg on which he rested, as often as if he had fifty of those limbs, and were trying them all; he examined his finger-nails with a very questionable closeness of attention; and whenever Mr. Lorry’s eye caught his, he was taken with that peculiar kind of short cough requiring the hollow of a hand before it, which is seldom, if ever, known to be an infirmity attendant on perfect openness of character.“Jerry,” said Mr. Lorry. “Come here.”Mr. Cruncher came forward sideways, with one of his shoulders in advance of him.“What have you been, besides a messenger?”After some cogitation, accompanied with an intent look at his patron, Mr. Cruncher conceived the luminous idea of replying, “Agricultooral character.”“My mind misgives me much,” said Mr. Lorry, angrily shaking a forefinger at him, “that you have used the respectable and great house of Tellson’s as a blind, and that you have had an unlawful occupation of an infamous description. If you have, don’t expect me to befriend you when you get back to England. If you have, don’t expect me to keep your secret. Tellson’s shall not be imposed upon.”“I hope, sir,” pleaded the abashed Mr. Cruncher, “that a gentleman like yourself wot I’ve had the honour of odd jobbing till I’m grey at it, would think twice about harming of me, even if it wos so—I don’t say it is, but even if it wos. And which it is to be took into account that if it wos, it wouldn’t, even then, be all o’ one side. There’d be two sides to it. There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don’t pick up his fardens—fardens! No, nor yet his half fardens—half fardens! No, nor yet his quarter—a banking away like smoke at Tellson’s, and a cocking their medical eyes at that tradesman on the sly, going in and out to their own carriages—ah! Equally like smoke, if not more so. Well, that ’ud be imposing too, on Tellson’s. For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander. And here’s Mrs. Cruncher, or leastways wos in the Old England times, and would be tomorrow, if cause given, a floppin agin the business to that degree as is ruinating—stark ruinating! Whereas them medical doctors’ wives don’t flop—catch ’em at it! Or, if they flop, their floppin goes in favour of more patients, and how can you rightly have one without the t’other? Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn’t get much by it, even if it wos so. And wot little man did get, would never prosper with him, Mr. Lorry. He’d never have no good of it; he’d want all along to be out of the line, if he could see his way out, being once in—even if it wos so.”“Ugh!” cried Mr. Lorry, rather relenting, nevertheless. “I am shocked at the sight of you.”“Now, what I would humbly offer to you, sir,” pursued Mr. Cruncher, “even if it wos so, which I don’t say it is—” “Don’t prevaricate,” said Mr. Lorry.“No, I will not, sir,” returned Mr. Cruncher, as if nothing were further from his thoughts or practice—“which I don’t say it is— wot I would humbly offer to you, sir, would be this. Upon that there stool, at that there Bar, sets that there boy of mine, brought up and growed up to be a man, wot will errand you, message you, general-light-job you, till your heels is where your head is, if such should be your wishes. If it was so, which I still don’t say it is (for I will not prewaricate to you, sir) let that there boy keep his father’s place, and take care of his mother; don’t blow upon that boy’s father—do not do it, sir—and let that father go into the line of the reg’lar diggin’, and make amends for what he would have undug— if it wos so—by diggin’ of ’em in with a will, and with conwictions respectin’ the futur’ keepin’ of ’em safe. That, Mr. Lorry,” said Mr. Cruncher, wiping his forehead with his arm, as an announcement that he had arrived at the peroration of his discourse, “is wot I would respectfully offer to you, sir. A man don’t see all this here a goin’ on dreadful round him, in the way of Subjects without heads, dear me, plentiful enough fur to bring the price down to porterage and hardly that, without havin’ his serious thoughts of things. And these here would be mine, if it wos so, entreatin’ of you fur to bear in mind that wot I said just now, I up and said in the good cause when I might have kep’ it back.”“That at least is true,” said Mr. Lorry. “Say no more now. It may be that I shall yet stand your friend, if you deserve it, and repent in action—not in words. I want no more words.”Mr. Cruncher knuckled his forehead, as Sydney Carton and the spy returned from the dark room. “Adieu, Mr. Barsad,” said the former; “our arrangement thus made, you have nothing to fear from me.”He sat down in a chair on the hearth, over against Mr. Lorry. When they were alone, Mr. Lorry asked him what he had done?“Not much. If it should go ill with the prisoner, I have ensured access to him, once.”Mr. Lorry’s countenance fell.“It is all I could do,” said Carton. “To propose too much would be to put this man’s head under the axe, and, as he himself said, nothing worse could happen to him if he were denounced. It was obviously the weakness of the position. There is no help for it.”“But access to him,” said Mr. Lorry, “if it should go ill before the Tribunal, will not save him.”“I never said it would.”Mr. Lorry’s eyes gradually sought the fire; his sympathy with his darling, and the heavy disappointment of this second arrest, gradually weakened them; he was an old man now, overborne with anxiety of late, and his tears fell.“You are a good man and a true friend,” said Carton, in an altered voice. “Forgive me if I notice that you are affected. I could not see my father weep, and sit by, careless. And I could not respect your sorrow more, if you were my father. You are free from that misfortune, however.”Though he said the last words, with a slip into his usual manner, there was a true feeling and respect both in his tone and in his touch, that Mr. Lorry, who had never seen the better side of him, was wholly unprepared for. He gave him his hand, and Carton gently pressed it.“To return to poor Darnay,” said Carton. “Don’t tell Her of this interview, or this arrangement. It would not enable Her to go to see him. She might think it was contrived, in case of the worst, to convey to him the means of anticipating the sentence.”Mr. Lorry had not thought of that, and he looked quickly at Carton to see if it were in his mind. It seemed to be; he returned the look, and evidently understood it.“She might think a thousand things,” Carton said, “and any of them would only add to her trouble. Don’t speak of me to her. As I said to you when I first came, I had better not see her. I can put my hand out, to do any little helpful work for her that my hand can find to do, without that. You are going to her, I hope? She must be very desolate tonight.”“I am going now, directly.”“I am glad of that. She has such a strong attachment to you and reliance on you. How does she look?”“Anxious and unhappy, but very beautiful.”“Ah!”It was a long, grieving sound, like a sigh—almost like a sob. It attracted Mr. Lorry’s eyes to Carton’s face, which was turned to the fire. A light, or a shade (the old gentleman could not have said which), passed from it as swiftly as a change will sweep over a hillside on a wild bright day, and he lifted his foot to put back one of the little flaming logs, which was tumbling forward. He wore the white riding-coat and top-boots, then in vogue, and the light of the fire touching their light surfaces made him look very pale, with his long brown hair, all untrimmed, hanging loose about him. His indifference to fire was sufficiently remarkable to elicit a word of remonstrance from Mr. Lorry: his boot was still upon the hot embers of the flaming log, when it had broken under the weight ofhis foot.“I forgot it,” he said.Mr. Lorry’s eyes were again attracted to his face. Taking note of the wasted air which clouded the naturally handsome features, and having the expression of prisoners’ faces fresh in his mind, he was strongly reminded of that expression.“And your duties here have drawn to an end, sir?” said Carton, turning to him.“Yes. As I was telling you last night when Lucie came in so unexpectedly, I have at length done all that I can do here. I hoped to have left them in perfect safety, and then to have quitted Paris. I have my Leave to Pass. I was ready to go.”They were both silent.“Yours is a long life to look back upon, sir?” said Carton, wistfully.“I am in my seventy-eighth year.”“You have been useful all your life; steadily and constantly occupied; trusted, respected, and looked up to?”“I have been a man of business, ever since I have been a man. Indeed, I may say that I was a man of business when a boy.”“See what a place you fill at seventy-eight. How many people will miss you when you leave it empty!”“A solitary old bachelor,” answered Mr. Lorry, shaking his head. “There is nobody to weep for me.”“How can you say that! Wouldn’t She weep for you? Wouldn’t her child?”“Yes, yes, thank God. I didn’t quite mean what I said.”“It is a thing to thank God for; is it not?”“Surely, surely.”“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, tonight, ‘I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!’ your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?”“You say truly, Mr. Carton; I think they would be.”Sydney turned his eyes again upon the fire, and, after a silence of a few moments, said:“I should like to ask you:—Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother’s knee, seem days of very long ago?”Responding to his softened manner, Mr. Lorry answered:“Twenty years back, yes; at this time of my life, no. For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way. My heart is touched now, by many remembrances that have long fallen asleep, of my pretty young mother (and I so old!), and by many associations of the days when what we call the World was not so real with me, and my faults were not confirmed in me.”“I understand the feeling!” exclaimed Carton, with a bright flush. “And you are the better for it?”“I hope so.”Carton terminated the conversation here, by rising to help him on with his outer coat. “But you,” said Mr. Lorry, reverting to the theme, “you are young.”“Yes,” said Carton. “I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age. Enough of me.”“And of me, I am sure,” said Mr. Lorry. “Are you going out?”“I’ll walk with you to her gate. You know my vagabond and restless habits. If I should prowl about the streets a long time, don’t be uneasy; I shall reappear in the morning. You go to the Court tomorrow?”“Yes, unhappily.”“I shall be there, but only as one of the crowd. My Spy will find a place for me. Take my arm, sir.”Mr. Lorry did so, and they went down-stairs and out in the streets. A few minutes brought them to Mr. Lorry’s destination. Carton left him there; but lingered at a little distance, and turned back to the gate again when it was shut, and touched it. He had heard of her going to the prison every day. “She came out here,” he said, looking about him, “turned this way, must have trod on these stones often. Let me follow in her steps.”It was ten o’clock at night when he stood before the prison of La Force, where she had stood hundreds of times. A little wood- sawyer, having closed his shop, was smoking his pipe at his shop- door.“Good night, citizen,” said Sydney Carton, pausing in going by; for the man eyed him inquisitively.“Good night, citizen.”“How goes the Republic?”“You mean the Guillotine. Not ill. Sixty-three today. We shall mount to a hundred soon. Samson and his men complain sometimes, of being exhausted. Ha, ha, ha! He is so droll, that Samson. Such a barber!”“Do you often go to see him—” “Shave? Always. Every day.What a barber! You have seen him at work?”“Never.”“Go and see him when he has a good batch. Figure this to yourself, citizen; he shaved the sixty-three today, in less than two pipes. Less than two pipes. Word of honour!”As the grinning little man held out the pipe he was smoking to explain how he timed the execution, Carton was so sensible of a rising desire to strike the life out of him, that he turned away.“But you are not English,” said the wood-sawyer, “though you wear English dress?”“Yes,” said Carton, pausing again, and answering over his shoulder.“You speak like a Frenchman.”“I am an old student here.”“Aha, a perfect Frenchman! Good night, Englishman.”“Good night, citizen.”“But go and see that droll dog,” the little man persisted, calling after him. “And take a pipe with you!”Sydney had not gone far out of sight, when he stopped in the middle of the street under a glimmering lamp, and wrote with his pencil on a scrap of paper. Then, traversing with the decided step of one who remembered the way well, several dark and dirty streets—much dirtier than usual, for the best public thoroughfares remained uncleansed in those times of terror—he stopped at a chemist’s shop, which the owner was closing with his own hands. A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man.Giving this citizen, too, good night, as he confronted him at his counter, he laid the scrap of paper before him. “Whew”; the chemist whistled softly, as he read it. “Hi! Hi, hi!”Sydney Carton took no heed, and the chemist said:“For you, citizen?”“For me.”“You will be careful to keep them separate, citizen. You know the consequences of mixing them?”“Perfectly.”Certain small packets were made and given to him. He put them, one by one, in the breast of his inner coat, counted out the money for them, and deliberately left the shop. “There is nothing more to do,” said he, glancing upward at the moon, “until tomorrow. I can’t sleep.”It was a reckless manner, the manner in which he said these words aloud under the fast-sailing clouds. Nor was it more expressive of negligence than defiance. It was the settled manner of a tired man, who had wandered and struggled and got lost, but who at length struck into his road and saw its end.Long ago, when he had been famous among his earliest competitors as a youth of great promise, he had followed his father to the grave. His mother had died, years before. These solemn words, which had been read at his father’s grave, arose in his mind as he went down the dark streets, among the heavy shadows, with the moon and the clouds sailing on high above him. “I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.”In a city dominated by the axe, alone at night, with natural sorrow rising in him for the sixty-three who had been that day put to death, and for tomorrow’s victims then awaiting their doom in the prisons, and still of tomorrow’s and tomorrow’s, the chain of association that brought the words home, like a rusty old ship’s anchor from the deep, might have been easily found. He did not seek it, but repeated them and went on.With a solemn interest in the lighted windows where the people were going to rest, forgetful through a few calm hours of the horrors surrounding them; in the towers of the churches, where no prayers were said, for the popular revulsion had even travelled that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn interest in the whole life and death of the city settling down to its short nightly pause in fury; Sydney Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets.Few coaches were abroad, for riders in coaches were liable to be suspected, and gentility hid his head in red nightcaps, and put on heavy shoes, and trudged. But. The theatres were all well filled, and the people poured cheerfully out as he passed, and went chatting home. At one of the theatre doors, there was a little girl with a mother, looking for a way across the street through the mud. He carried the child over, and before the timid arm was loosed from his neck asked her for a kiss.“I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.”Now, that the streets were quiet and the night wore on, the words were in the echoes of his feet, and were in the air. Perfectly calm and steady, he sometimes repeated them to himself as he walked; but, he heard them always.The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as it splashed the river-walls of the Island of Paris, where the picturesque confusion of houses and cathedral shone bright in the light of the moon, the day came coldly, looking like a dead face out of the sky. Then, the night, with the moon and the stars, turned pale and died, and for a little while it seemed as if Creation were delivered over to Death’s dominion.But the glorious sun, rising, seemed to strike those words, that burden of the night, straight and warm to his heart in its long bright rays. And looking along them, with reverently shaded eyes, a bridge of light appeared to span the air between him and the sun, while the river sparkled under it.The strong tide, so swift, so deep, and certain, was like a congenial friend, in the morning stillness. He walked by the stream, far from the houses, and in the light and warmth of the sun fell asleep on the bank. When he awoke and was afoot again, he lingered there yet a little longer, watching an eddy that turned and turned purposeless, until the stream absorbed it, and carried it on to the sea.—“Like me!”A trading-boat, with a sail of the softened colour of a dead leaf, then glided into his view, floated by him, and died away. As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consideration of all his poor blindness and errors, ended in the words, “I am the resurrection and the life.”Mr. Lorry was already out when he got back, and it was easy to surmise where the good old man was gone. Sydney Carton drank nothing but a little coffee, ate some bread, and, having washed and changed to refresh himself, went out to the place of trial.The court was all astir and a-buzz, when the black sheep— whom many fell away from in dread—pressed him into an obscure corner among the crowd. Mr. Lorry was there, and Doctor Manette was there. She was there, sitting beside her father.When her husband was brought in, she turned a look upon him, so sustaining, so encouraging, so full of admiring love, and pitying tenderness, yet so courageous for his sake, that it called the healthy blood into his face, brightened his glance, and animated his heart. If there had been any eyes to notice the influence of her look, on Sydney Carton, it would have been seen to be the same influence exactly.Before that unjust Tribunal, there was little or no order of procedure, ensuring to any accused person any reasonable hearing. There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance of the Revolution was to scatter them all to the winds.Every eye was turned to the jury. The same determined patriots and good republicans as yesterday and the day before, and tomorrow and the day after. Eager and prominent among them, one man with a craving face, and his fingers perpetually hovering about his lips, whose appearance gave great satisfaction to the spectators. A life-thirsting, cannibal-looking, bloody-minded juryman, the Jacques Three of Saint Antoine. The whole jury, as a jury of dogs empanelled to try the deer.Every eye then turned to the five judges and the public prosecutor. No favourable leaning in that quarter today. A fell, uncompromising, murderous business-meaning there. Every eye then sought some other eye in the crowd, and gleamed at it approvingly; and heads nodded at one another before bending forward with a strained attention.Charles Evremonde, called Darnay. Released yesterday. Reaccused and retaken yesterday. Indictment delivered to him last night. Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law.To this effect, in as few or fewer words, the Public Prosecutor.The President asked, was the Accused openly denounced or secretly?“Openly, President.”“By whom?”“Three voices. Ernest Defarge, wine vendor of Saint Antoine.”“Good.”“Therese Defarge, his wife.”“Good.”“Alexandre Manette, physician.”A great uproar took place in the court, and in the midst of it, Doctor Manette was seen, pale and trembling, standing where he had been seated.“President, I indignantly protest to you that this is a forgery and a fraud. You know the accused to be the husband of my daughter. My daughter, and those dear to her, are far dearer to me than my life. Who and where is the false conspirator who says that I denounce the husband of my child?”“Citizen Manette, be tranquil. To fail in submission of the authority of the Tribunal would be to put yourself out of Law. As to what is dearer to you than life. Nothing can be so dear to a good citizen as the Republic.”Loud acclamations hailed this rebuke. The President rang his bell, and with warmth resumed.“If the Republic should demand of you the sacrifice of your child herself, you would have no duty but to sacrifice her. Listen to what is to follow. In the meanwhile, be silent!”Frantic acclamations were again raised. Doctor Manette sat down, with his eyes looking around, and his lips trembling; his daughter drew closer to him. The craving man on the jury rubbed his hands together, and restored the usual hand to his mouth.Defarge was produced, when the court was quiet enough to admit of his being heard, and rapidly expounded the story of the imprisonment, and of his having been a mere boy in the Doctor’s service, and of the release, and of the state of the prisoner when released and delivered to him. This short examination followed. For the court was quick with its work.“You did good service at the taking of the Bastille, citizen?”“I believe so.”Here an excited woman screeched from the crowd: “You were one of the best patriots there. Why not say so? You were a cannonier that day there, and you were among the first to enter the accursed fortress when it fell. Patriots, I speak the truth!”It was The Vengeance who, amidst the warm commendations of the audience, thus assisted the proceedings. The President rang his bell; but, The Vengeance, warming with encouragement, shrieked, “I defy that bell!” wherein she was likewise much commended.“Inform the Tribunal of what you did that day. Within the Bastille, citizen.”“I knew,” said Defarge, looking down at his wife, who stood at the bottom of the steps on which he was raised, looking steadily up at him; “I knew that this prisoner, of whom I speak, had been confined in a cell known as One Hundred and Five, North Tower. I knew it from himself. He knew himself by no other name than One Hundred and Five, North Tower, when he made shoes under my care. As I serve my gun that day, I resolve, when the place shall fall, to examine that cell. It falls. I mount to the cell, with a fellow-citizen who is one of the Jury, directed by a gaoler. I examine it, very closely. In a hole in the chimney, where a stone has been worked out and replaced, I find a written paper. That is that written paper. I have made it my business to examine some specimens of the writing of Doctor Manette. This is the writing of Doctor Manette. I confide this paper, in the writing of Doctor Manette, to the hands of the President.”“Let it be read.”In the dead silence and stillness—the prisoner under trial looking lovingly at his wife, his wife only looking from him to look with solicitude at her father, Doctor Manette keeping his eyes fixed on the reader, Madame Defarge never taking hers from the prisoner, Defarge never taking his from his feasting wife, and all the other eyes there intent upon the Doctor, who saw none of them—the paper was read as follows.
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摘要:“你这个白痴!”他老婆说着就把她的牌甩了下去。我急忙扭过头去,避免看见海利·德莱恩的脸;不过为什么我想避免看见那张脸,我可不能告诉你,就更不可能告诉你为什么我竟然会料想到(如果我真的料想到的话)像他这样年纪的一个显要人物会注意到我这样一个完全无足轻重的小青年遇到的事了。 [点击阅读]
灿烂千阳
作者:佚名
章节:30 人气:0
摘要:五岁那年,玛丽雅姆第一次听到“哈拉米”这个词。那天是星期四。肯定是的,因为玛丽雅姆记得那天她坐立不安、心不在焉;她只有在星期四才会这样,星期四是扎里勒到泥屋来看望她的日子。等到终于见到扎里勒的时候,玛丽雅姆将会挥舞着手臂,跑过空地上那片齐膝高的杂草;而这一刻到来之前,为了消磨时间,她爬上一张椅子,搬下她母亲的中国茶具。玛丽雅姆的母亲叫娜娜,娜娜的母亲在她两岁的时候便去世了,只给她留下这么一套茶具。 [点击阅读]
点与线
作者:佚名
章节:13 人气:0
摘要:一安田辰郎一月十三日在东京赤坂区的“小雪饭庄”宴请一位客人。客人的身份是政府某部的司长。安田辰郎经营着安田公司,买卖机械工具。这家公司这几年颇有发展。据说,生意蓬勃的原因是官家方面的订货多。所以,他时常在“小雪饭庄”招待这类身份的客人。安田时常光顾这家饭庄。在附近来说,它虽然称不上是第一流,却正因为如此,客人到了这里才不会挤得肩碰肩的,吃得心里踏实。 [点击阅读]
烟囱大厦的秘密
作者:佚名
章节:31 人气:0
摘要:“君子-周!”“啊,那木是吉米-麦克格拉吗?”佳色游览团的团员是七位面色抑郁的女士和三位汗流泱背的男士。现在,他们都相当注意地从旁观望。他们的导游凯德先生显然碰到一个老朋友了。他们都非常赞美凯德先生。他那瘦高的个儿,晒得黑黑的面孔和轻松愉快的态度,都很令人欣赏。团员当中若有争论,他总能轻轻地为他们排解,并且能够把他们哄得心平气和。现在,他遇见的这个朋友的确是一个样子很奇特的人。 [点击阅读]
烽火岛
作者:佚名
章节:15 人气:0
摘要:1827年10月18日,下午5点左右,一艘来自地中海东海岸的船正乘风前进,看来它是想赶在天黑前进入科龙海湾的维地罗港。这就是在古代荷马书中提到的奥地罗斯港口。它坐落在爱奥尼亚海和爱琴海三个锯齿状缺口中的一个里。这三个踞齿缺口把希腊南部踞成了一片法国梧桐叶的形状。古代的伯罗奔尼撒就是在这片叶状的土地上发展起来的。现代地理称其为摩里亚。 [点击阅读]
燕尾蝶
作者:佚名
章节:26 人气:0
摘要:韦迪·卫斯特韦特之墓韦迪·卫斯特韦特是位出生于新泽西州的海军军官。他从越南战场上生还后,深深地为佛教的精神所折服,因此在退役后移居日本。虽然不能舍弃带血的牛排和打猎的爱好,但他尽可能对佛教教义加以部分独特的解释,努力使两者并存。当韦迪正在享受他最喜爱的打猎时,死神来临了。当看到爱犬得林伽已经把受伤的野鸭追得无路可逃时,他扣动扳机准备打死野鸭。 [点击阅读]
爱丽丝漫游奇境记英文版
作者:佚名
章节:13 人气:0
摘要:刘易斯·卡罗尔(LewisCarroll)的真名叫查尔斯·勒特威奇·道奇森(1832~1898),是一位数学家,长期在享有盛名的牛津大学任基督堂学院数学讲师,发表了好几本数学著作。他因有严重的口吃,故而不善与人交往,但他兴趣广泛,对小说、诗歌、逻辑都颇有造诣,还是一个优秀的儿童像摄影师。作品《爱丽丝漫游仙境》是卡罗尔兴之所致,给友人的女儿爱丽丝所讲的故事,写下后加上自己的插图送给了她。 [点击阅读]