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亨利.詹姆士(Henry James, 1843–1916),美國作家。父親老亨利.詹姆斯是著名學者,兄長威廉.詹姆斯(William James)是知名的哲學家和心理學家。亨利.詹姆士一生未娶,但社交生活活躍,長期旅居歐洲,對十九世紀末的歐美上層生活有入微的觀察。他一生創作小說二十餘部,也寫了許多短篇故事、中篇小說、劇本、雜誌文章和旅遊書籍。 《碧廬冤孽》(The Turn of the Screw ),是一則知名的鬼故事。在十九世紀末,鬼故事盛行,人們很著迷於超自然力量。故事的主人翁是一位年輕的女家庭教師,講述自己的親身遭遇。女家庭教師受雇於一位年輕英俊的男子,負責照顧年幼的姪子和姪女。他們住在碧廬(Bly)鄉間的一座大房子裡,女家庭教師在這裡看到了(或是自以為看到了)兩位過世的鬼魂。 她確信兩個鬼魂可以跟孩子溝通,而且鬼魂還打算傷害孩子,於是她決定要把自己的學生救出來。但是,是孩子們真的身陷危險之中,還是女家庭教師精神錯亂了?作者將結局留給讀者去思考。 ***** Published in 1898, The Turn of the Screw is Henry James’s best-known ghost story. Ghost stories were very popular at the end of the 19th century, when there was also much interest in the supernatural. James begins his novella with a prologue, an introduction to the main story. A group of friends is spending Christmas together in an old country house. One evening they decide to tell each other ghost stories. One of the guests says that he once read a very frightening one. Of course everyone wants to hear it, so he has the pages of the story sent from his house in London. A couple of nights later he reads it to his friends. The story forms the main part of the novella. It is written by a young governess about her first job. She is employed by a young, handsome man to look after his young nephew and niece—Miles aged 10 and Flora aged 8. They live in a large house in the country called Bly and they are both very beautiful and good. Soon after her arrival the governess sees—or imagines she sees—the evil ghosts of two dead servants, a man called Quint and a woman called Miss Jessel. She is convinced that the ghosts are communicating with the children and that they are going to hurt them. She decides that she must save her pupils before it is too late. Are the children really in danger? Or is the governess mad? Henry James leaves it to the reader to decide. 【Helbling文學讀本(Helbling Readers)簡介】 ● Helbling Classics(經典英文文學改寫) ● Helbling Fiction(當代原創英文小說) 《Helbling文學讀本》為一套最優質的英文分級閱讀讀本,英語難易度由初級銜接到中級。在各項英語認證考試中,本系列書培養的英語能力級數如下:
About the Author About the Book Before Reading Prologue 楔子 1. Bly 碧廬 2. The face at the window 窗戶上的臉龐 3. The lady at the lake 湖邊的女子 4. A bad boy 壞男孩 5. Dangerous friends 危險的朋友 6. A difficult decision 艱難的決定 7. A departure 離開 8. Lost forever 永遠失去 After Reading Test Project Work Translation Answer Key
作者簡介 亨利.詹姆士(Henry James) 亨利.詹姆士(Henry James),1843年出生於紐約,家中五個孩子,他排行老二。他的雙親很富有,具文化涵養。他在青少年期間,和家人旅居歐洲各地,在這段期間,亨利進入私立學校就讀,也跟著私人家庭老師學習,學習多種語言,並飽覽許多歐洲著名作家的作品。 十九歲時,他在哈佛大學修學法律,但他並未完成學業,因為他沉浸於閱讀和寫作。1864年,他出版了第一篇短篇故事,隨後便決定全心傾注於寫作上面。 1875年,他離開美國,旅居法國。隔年,搬到英國定居。亨利•詹姆士一生未娶,但他朋友很多,社交生活活躍。1915年,第一次世界大戰開打,他成為英國公民。隔年二月,在倫敦辭世。 亨利.詹姆士在一生中所創作的小說有二十餘部,其中最為人知的作品,包括《一位女士的畫像》(The Portrait of a Lady, 1881)、《波士頓人》(The Bostonians, 1886)、《奉使記》(The Ambassadors, 1903)和《金碗》(The Golden Bowl, 1904)。這些小說都曾改編成電影,受到歡迎。他也寫了許多短篇故事、中篇小說、劇本、雜誌文章和旅遊書籍。 譯者簡介 盧相如 東華大學創作與英語文學研究所畢業,目前為自由譯者。喜歡閱讀小說、音樂和電影。譯作《科學怪人》、《傲慢與偏見》、《碧盧冤孽》(寂天出版)等。
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