《飘》,是女作家玛格丽特·米切尔一生惟一的一部长篇小说,小说于1936年6月问世,1937年获得普利策最佳小说奖,风行至今;已经被翻译成四十多种文字,在世界各地出版,可以说是最畅销的美国小说之一,也被出版商誉为“一切时代的畅销小说”。
世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画,让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此,我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。
我们找来了专门研究西方历史、西方文化的专家学者,请教了专业的翻译人员,精心挑选了这些可以代表西方文学的著作,并听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友的建议,不删节、不做任何人为改动,严格按照原著的风格,提供原汁原味的西方名著,让读者能享受纯正的英文名著。
随着阅读的展开,你会发现自己的英语水平无形中有了大幅提高,并且对西方历史文化的了解也日益深入广阔。
送您一套经典,让您受益永远!
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
PART FIVE
Scarlett OHara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by hercharm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicatefeatures of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones ofher florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin; square of jaw.Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashesand slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward,cutting a startling oblique line in her magnoliawhite skin that skin so prized bySouthern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens againsthot Georgia suns.Seated with Smart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, herfathers plantation, that bright April afternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture.Her new green floweredmuslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing materialover her hoops and exactly matched the flatheeled green morocco slippers herfather had recently brought her from Atlanta. The dress set off to perfection theseventeeninch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basqueshowed breasts well matured for her sixteen years. But for all the modesty of herspreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and thequietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed.The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life,distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposedupon her by her mothers gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of hermammy; her eyes were her own.On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at thesunlight through tall mintgarnished glasses as they laughed and talked, their longlegs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle muscles, crossed negligently.Nineteen years old, six feet two inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, withsunburned faces and deep auburn hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodiesclothed in identical blue coats and mustardcolored breeches, they were as muchalike as two bolls of cotton.
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