美麗新世界BraveNewWorld(全英文原版)
定 價:25 元
- 作者:阿道司·赫胥黎(Aldous Huxley)
- 出版時間:2017/8/1
- ISBN:9787220101755
- 出 版 社:四川人民出版社
- 中圖法分類:H319.4:I561.45
- 頁碼:272
- 紙張:輕型紙
- 版次:1
- 開本:32開
《美麗新世界》是英國作家阿道司·赫胥黎于1931創(chuàng)作并于1932發(fā)表的政治諷喻小說。該書主要描寫了機械文明下的未來社會中,人的“人”性被機械剝奪殆盡,處于“幸!睜顟B(tài)的人們以幾種種姓產(chǎn)生于工業(yè)化的育嬰房,接受種種安于現(xiàn)狀的教育,熱愛機械化的工作與生活方式的未來生活。該小說影響巨大,與《一九八四》和《我們》并列為世界三大反烏托邦小說。
“鯨歌英文原版”系列圖書第一輯,精選國內(nèi)讀者耳熟能詳十本名著:《呼嘯山莊》《月亮和六便士》《簡·愛》《老人與!贰1984》《美麗新世界》《人性的弱點》《假如給我三天光明》《動物莊園》《飄》,以國外的出版社版本為參照,原版復制,精心編排,力求原汁原味還原外版圖書的風貌。這十本書文筆優(yōu)美,閱讀難度不高,非常適合有一定外語閱讀能力的讀者首次入門接觸外國小說。
在機械文明籠罩的未來社會中,喪失“人性”的人們“幸福”地生活著。小說內(nèi)涵深刻,耐人尋味,影響遍及世界范圍,對如今處在高速發(fā)展時期的我們亦有具有警示意義。
世界三大反烏托邦小說之一。
出版34年內(nèi)銷量近300萬冊的長銷作品。
世界文學史上的經(jīng)典之作。
原汁原味,原版引進。
良心國貨,性jia比高。
阿道司 赫胥黎,以小說和大量散文作品聞名于世,也出版短篇小說、游記、電影故事和劇本。赫胥黎通過他的小說和散文充當著社會道德、標準和理想的拷問人與批評家。1932年創(chuàng)作的《美麗新世界》讓他名留青史。
‘Lighter than air, ’said Bernard, pointing upwards.
Like a pearl in the sky, high, high above them, the Weather Department’s captive balloon shone rosily in the sunshine.
‘... the said Savage, ’so ran Bernard’s instructions,‘to be shown civilized life in all its aspects...’
He was being shown a bird’seye view of it at present, a bird’s eye view from the platform of the Charing T Tower. The Station Master and the Resident Meteorologist were acting as guides. But it was Bernard who did most of the talking.Intoxicated, he was behaving as though, at the very least, he were a visiting World Controller.Lighter than air.
The Bombay Green Rocket dropped out of the sky. The passengers alighted. Eight identical Dravidian twins in khaki looked out of the eight portholes of the cabin-the stewards.
‘Twelve hundred and fifty kilometres an hour, ’said the Station Master impressively.‘What do you think of that, Mr Savage?’
John thought it very nice.‘Still, ’he said, ‘Ariel could put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes.’
‘The Savage, ’wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, ‘shows surprisingly little astonishment at’or awe of, civilized inventions. This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that he has heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m-.’
(Mustapha Mond frowned.‘Does the fool think I’m too squeamish to see the word written out at full length?’)
‘Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls“the soul”, which he persists as regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment; whereas, as I tried to point out to him...’
The Controller skipped the next sentences and was just about to turn the page in search of something more interestingly concrete, when his eye was caught by a series of quite extraordinary phrases.‘... though I must admit, ’he read, ‘that I agree with the Savage in finding civilized infantility too easy or, as he puts it, not expensive enough;and I would like to take this opportunity of drawing your fordship’s attention to...’
Mustapha Mond’s anger gave place almost at once to mirth. The idea of this creature solemnly lecturing him- him -about the social order was really too grotesque.The man must have gone mad.‘I ought to give him a lesson, ’he said to himself; then threw back his head and laughed aloud.For the moment, at any rate, the lesson would not be given.