Monday, September 7, 2009

رمانی از هنری جیمز به نام سفیر که از رمان های کلاسیک به شمار می رود حدود 512 صفحه دارد و حجم آن فقط یک مگابایت است


The Ambassadors by Henry James

Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University | ISBN: 0199538549 | edition 2007 | PDF | 512 pages | 1 mb


The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost.
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At September 8, 2009 at 6:30 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

سلام آقای توکل
باز هم ممنون.راستش یه درخواست دیگه داشتیم ما خیلی وقته دنبال یه کتابیک که پیداش نمی کنیم

به اسم"tuesdays with morrie"
ممنون میشم در این مورد هم کمکمون کنین.
با تشکر

 

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