泄密的心

內(nèi)容概要

本書是19世紀美國著名作家愛倫·坡的小說選集，這些作品對后世產(chǎn)生了具大的影響。本書收錄了關(guān)于探案類、懸疑類、幻想類的十余篇引人入勝的短篇小說。

作者簡介

　　埃德加·愛倫·坡 （Edgar Allan Poe, 1809--1849）
　　美國詩人、小說家和文學評論家。 
　　坡一生命途多舛。三歲成為孤兒，被愛倫一家收養(yǎng)，所以后來他將愛倫作為自己的中間名。大學肄業(yè)后，坡曾過短暫的軍旅生涯，后長期以編輯為業(yè)，雖然不斷有作品陸續(xù)發(fā)表，但一直窮愁潦倒。 
　　作為詩人，坡創(chuàng)作了一批舉世推崇的詩篇，如《烏鴉》、《鐘聲》和《致海倫》等，這些詩作具有純粹的文學音樂美，至情流露，經(jīng)貿(mào)不衰；作為小說家，他被譽為偵探小說鼻祖、恐怖小說大師、短篇哥特式小說的巔峰、科幻小說和象征主義先驅(qū)之一，代表作包括《莫格街兇殺案》、《黑貓》和《威廉·威爾遜》等；作為評論家，他對狄更斯、朗費羅、華茲華斯等作品的評論都闡示了精辟的見解，而且他的評論旗幟鮮明，絕不因人而褒獎，對美國當時批評家和出版商相勾結(jié)的文壇無疑起了正本清源、振聾發(fā)聵的作用。 
　　坡最后于坎坷困苦中飲恨而終，生前并沒有受到應(yīng)有的重視，但他的詩歌、小說和評論作品對后世各國作家產(chǎn)生了深遠的影響，為美國乃至世界文學做出了不可磨滅的貢獻。

書籍目錄

The Tell-Tale Heart The Oval Portrait The Cask of Amontillado The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Purloined Letter The Black Cat "Thou Art the Man" The Masque of the Red Death The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. The Sphinx The Fall of the House of Usher Three Sundays in a Week The Gold-Bug Some Words with a Mummy William Wilson.

章節(jié)摘錄

插圖："We must not judge of the means," said Dupin, "by this shellof an examination. The Parisian police, so much extolled foracumen, are cunning, but no more. There is no method intheir proceedings, beyond the method of the moment. Theymake a vast parade of measures; but, not unfrequently, theseare so ill adapted to the objects proposed, as to put us in mindof Monsieur Jourdain's calling for his robe-de-chambre——pourmieux entendre la musique. The results attained by them arenot infrequently surprising, but, for the most part, are broughtabout by simple diligence and activity. When these qualitiesare unavailing, their schemes fail. Vidocq, for example, was agood guesser, and a persevering man. But, without educatedthought, he erred continually by the very intensity of hisinvestigations. He impaired his vision by holding the objecttoo close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points withunusual clearness, but in so doing he, necessarily; lost sight ofthe matter as a whole. Thus there is such a thing as being tooprofound. Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards themore important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariablysuperficial. Tlae depth lies in the valleys where we seek her,and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found. Themodes and sources of this kind of error are well typified inthe contemplation of the heavenly bodies.

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《泄密的心:愛倫·坡驚悚短篇集》由外語教學與研究出版社出版。

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