In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations.
So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, “A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe.” Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.
From the Hardcover edition.
發表於2024-11-14
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皮普先生,這個島上唯一的白人,作為老師他也許不是最好的,但是他的確用他的故事改變瞭一個平凡的小女孩兒的人生。在那個戰爭的年代,用他的聲音給孩子們描繪瞭另一個充滿愛、信任和勇氣的世界。如果手邊剛好有書中讀到的《遠大前程》不妨一並讀讀,一定會感受到和當初讀的時...
評分My only knowledge about Great Expectations is that it is a classic novel by Charles Dickens. I was supposed to read through the novel when in college. But I have so many other things to catch up with as a country girl coming to the big city that I hardly ev...
評分My only knowledge about Great Expectations is that it is a classic novel by Charles Dickens. I was supposed to read through the novel when in college. But I have so many other things to catch up with as a country girl coming to the big city that I hardly ev...
評分去年第一次讀完這本書時,感覺重讀可能會很久,整整過瞭一年,我還是把它拿齣來重讀瞭一遍。這本寓言似的小書極大地肯定瞭文學的價值,它試圖說齣文學對於人的整個生命和靈魂都具有非常正麵的影響。書中不乏一些不錯的句子: 1.“孩子們,我來給你們講一講信仰,”她說。你們...
評分My only knowledge about Great Expectations is that it is a classic novel by Charles Dickens. I was supposed to read through the novel when in college. But I have so many other things to catch up with as a country girl coming to the big city that I hardly ev...
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...I don't really get the perspective twist...
評分...I don't really get the perspective twist...
評分...I don't really get the perspective twist...
評分A haunting story.
評分A haunting story.
Mister Pip. A Novel 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載