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1、【国外英文文学】旧地重游EVELYN WAUGH BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDTHE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDERPenguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, EnglandPenguin Books, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022, U.S.A.Penguin Books Australia Ltd,Ringwood, Victoria, AustraliaPenguin Books Canada Lt
2、d, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R IB4Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road,Auckland 10, New ZealandFirst published by Chapman & Hall 1945Published in Penguin Books 1951Reprinted 1952, 1954, 1957, 1959Revised edition first published by Chapman & Hall 1960Published in Penguin B
3、ooks 1962Reprinted 1964, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975,1976, 1977,1978, 1979, 1980 (twice), 1981Copyright 1945 by Evelyn WaughAll rights reservedMade and printed in Great Britainby Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, SuffolkSet in Monophoto BaskervilleAUTHORS NOTEI am not I: thou art
4、not he or she:they are not theyE.W.Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than
5、that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaserCONTENTSPrefacePrologue: BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDBook One: ET IN ARCADIA EGOChapter One: I meet Sebastian Flyte - and Anthony Blanche - I visit Brideshead for the first timeCha
6、pter Two: My cousin Jaspers Grand Remonstrance a warning against charm - Sunday morning in OxfordChapter Three: My father at home - Lady Julia FlyteChapter Four: Sebastian at home - Lord Marchmain abroadChapter Five: Autumn in Oxford - dinner with Rex Mottram and supper with Boy Mulcaster - Mr Samgr
7、ass - Lady Marchmain at home - Sebastian contra mundum Book Two: BRIDESHEAD DESERTEDChapter One: Samgrass revealed - I take leave of Brideshead - Rex revealedChapter Two: Julia and RexChapter Three: Mulcaster and I in defence of our country - Sebastian abroad - I take leave of Marchmain HouseBook Th
8、ree: A TWITCH UPON THE THREADChapter One: Orphans of the StormChapter Two: Private view - Rex Mottram at homeChapter Three: The fountainChapter Four: Sebastian contra mundumChapter Five: Lord Marchmain at home - death in the Chinese drawing-room - the purpose revealedEpilogue: BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDTo
9、LAURAPREFACETHIS novel, which is here re-issued with many small additions and some substantial cuts, lost me such esteem as I once enjoyed among my contemporaries and led me into an unfamiliar world of fan-mail and press photographers. Its theme - the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse
10、but closely connected characters - was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it. I am less happy about its form, whose more glaring defects may be blamed on the circumstances in which it was written. In December 1943 1 had the good fortune when parachuting to incur a minor injury w
11、hich afforded me a rest from military service. This was extended by a sympathetic commanding officer, who let me remain unemployed until June 1944 when the book was finished. I wrote with a zest that was quite strange to me and also with impatience to get back to the war. It was a bleak period of pr
12、esent privation and threatening disaster - the period of soya beans and Basic English - and in consequence the, book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language, which now with a full stomach I find distaste
13、ful. I have modified the grosser passages but have not obliterated them because they are an essential part of the book. I have been in two minds as to the treatment of Julias outburst about mortal sin and Lord Marchmains dying soliloquy. These passages were never of course, intended to report words
14、actually spoken. They belong to a different way of writing from, say, the early scenes between Charles and his father. I would not now introduce them into a novel which elsewhere aims at verisimilitude. But I have retained them here in something near their original form because, like the Burgundy (m
15、isprinted in many editions) and the moonlight they were essentially of the mood of writing; also because many readers liked them, though that is not a consideration of first importance. It was impossible to foresee, in the spring of 1944, the present cult of the English country house. It seemed then
16、 that the ancestral seats which were our chief national artistic achievement were doomed to decay and spoliation like the monasteries in the sixteenth century. So I piled it on rather, with passionate sincerity. Brideshead today would be open to trippers, its treasures rearranged by expert hands and
17、 the fabric better maintained than it was by Lord Marchmain. And the English aristocracy has maintained its identity to a degree that then seemed impossible. The advance of Hooper has been held up at several points. Much of this book therefore is a panegyric preached over an empty coffin. But it wou
18、ld be impossible to bring it up to date without totally destroying it. It is offered to a younger generation of readers as a souvenir of the Second War rather than of the twenties or of the thirties, with which it ostensibly deals. Combe Florey 1959 E.W.PROLOGUEBRIDESHEAD REVISITEDWHEN I reached C C
19、ompany lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning. We were leaving that day. When we marched in, three months before, the pjace was under snow; now the first leaves of spring were unfoldin
20、g. I had reflected then that, whatever s cenes of desolation lay ahead of us, I never feared one more brutal than this, and I reflected now that it had no single happy memory for me. Here love had died between me and the army. Here the tram lines ended, so that men returning fuddled from Glasgow cou
21、ld doze in their seats until roused by their journey s end. There -was some way to go from the tram-stop to the camp gates a quarter of a mile in which they could button their blouses and straighten their caps before passing the guard-room, quarter of a mile in which concrete gave place to grass at
22、the roads edge. This was the extreme limit of the city. Here the close, homogeneous territory of housing estates and cinemas ended and the hinterland began. The camp stood where, until quite lately, had been pasture and ploughland; the farmhouse still stood in a fold of the hill and had served us fo
23、r battalion offices; ivy still supported part of what had once been the walls of a fruit garden; half an acre of mutilated old trees behind the wash-houses survived of an orchard. The place had been marked for destruction before the army came to it. Had there been another year of peace, there would
24、have been no farmhouse, no wall, no apple trees. Already 5 half a mile of concrete road lay between bare clay banks and on open ditches showed where the municipal contractors had designed a system of drainage. Another year of peace would have made the place part of the neighbouring suburb. Now the h
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