书名:Charmed Life 美丽人生/魔法生活—克里斯托曼奇历代记1
难度:Lexile蓝思阅读指数720
作者:Diana Wynne Jones戴安娜·韦恩·琼斯
出版社名称:HarperCollins
出版时间:2009
语种:英文
ISBN:9780007255290
商品尺寸:13 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm
包装:平装
页数:288
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci《克里斯托曼奇历代记》系列是英国幻想文学大师戴安娜·韦恩·琼斯继“哈尔的移动城堡”系列外又一脍炙人口的作品。这本Charmed Life《美丽人生》正是“克里斯托曼奇历代记”的首部曲,又译作《克里斯托曼奇历代记1—魔法生活》。本书为英文版,适合9岁及以上有一定英文基础的儿童或青少年阅读。
推荐理由:
1.琼斯代表作之一,荣获卫报儿童图书奖、德国读书老鼠奖及英国卡内基儿童学奖提名;
2.故事糅合了魔法、幽默、欢乐及动人的真理,很适合孩子或青少年阅读;
3.英文原版,印刷清晰,字体较大,阅读舒适。
Winner of the Guardian Award.
Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones classic award-winning favourite, featuring Chrestomanci—now a book with extra bits!
Review
“... Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears...”—Publishers Weekly“Truly magical—guaranteed to leave you gasping—even hotter than Potter”—The Bookseller
“Diana Wynne Jones could teach Stephen King and JK Rowling a thing or two ... [she] has a skill for inserting just the right amount of detail in her written words, leaving you satiated but not stuffed.”—SFX
卡特崇拜姐姐格温多琳,甚至不介意生活在魔法天分颇强的姐姐的阴影之下,也不在乎被姐姐施法折腾。毕竟在父母遭遇意外过世之后,姐姐是他的亲人。所有的麻烦都从姐姐给克里斯托曼奇寄去信件开始,姐弟俩离开故乡,成为拥有强大魔法的克里斯托曼奇的被监护人。克里斯托曼奇城堡中的生活不尽如人意,烦心事一桩接一桩。然而,任何问题都比不上格温多琳忽然做出的某个惊人之举,让卡特的生活出现了翻天覆地的变化。
Everybody says that Gwendolyn Chant is a gifted witch with astonishing powers, so it suits her enormously when she is taken to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Her brother Eric (better known as Cat) is not so keen, for he has no talent for magic at all.
However, life with the great enchanter is not what either of them expects and sparks begin to fly!
戴安娜?韦恩?琼斯(1934-2011)英国幻想小说作家,写作幻想小说已有三十多个年头。凭借漫无边际的想象力,她的故事糅合了精彩的情节,热情的幽默感,和动人的真理,为各年龄层的读者所喜欢。她的作品受到国际褒奖并获得了一系列荣誉,包括两次“波士顿环球报号角书奖”以及英国幻想协会卡尔?爱德华?瓦格纳奖——以肯定她在幻想文学领域的重大影响。日本动画家宫崎骏改编了《哈尔的移动城堡》,拍摄成一部动漫电影,获得了奥斯卡奖提名。
Diana Wynne Jones has been writing outstanding fantasy novels for more than thirty years and is one of the most distinguished writers in this field. With unlimited imagination, she combines dazzling plots, an effervescent sense of humor, and emotional truths in stories that delight readers of all ages. Her books, published to international acclaim, have earned a wide array of honors, including two Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honors, the British Fantasy Society’s Karl Edward Wagner Award for having made a significant impact on fantasy, and the World Fantasy Society Lifetime Achievement Award. Acclaimed director and animator Hayao Miyazaki adapted her international bestsellerHowl’s Moving Castleinto a major motion picture, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Cat Chant admired his elder sister Gwendolen. She was a witch. He admired her and he clung to her. Great changes came about in their lives and left him no one else to cling to.
The first great change came about when their parents took them out for a day trip down the river in a paddle steamer. They set out in great style, Gwendolen and her mother in white dresses with ribbons, Cat and his father in prickly blue-serge Sunday suits. It was a hot day. The steamer was crammed with other people in holiday clothes, talking, laughing, eating whelks with thin slices of white bread and butter, while the paddle boat steam organ wheezed out popular tunes so that no one could hear themselves talk.
In fact the steamer was too crowded and too old. Something went wrong with the steering. The whole laughing, whelk-eating, Sunday-dressed crowd was swept away in the current from the dam. They hit one of the posts which were supposed to stop people being swept away, and the paddle steamer, being old, simply broke into pieces. Cat remembered the organ playing and the paddles beating the blue sky.
Clouds of steam screamed from broken pipes and drowned the screams from the crowd, as every single person aboard was swept away through the dam. It was a terrible accident. The papers called it the Saucy Nancy Disaster. The ladies in their clinging skirts were quite unable to swim. The men in tight blue serge were very little better off. But Gwendolen was a witch, so she could not drown. And Cat, who flung his arms around Gwendolen when the boat hit the post, survived too. There were very few other survivors.
The whole country was shocked by it. The paddle boat company and the town of Wolvercote between them paid for the funerals. Gwendolen and Cat were given heavy black clothes at public expense, and rode behind the procession of hearses in a carriage pulled by black horses with black plumes on their heads. The other survivors rode with them. Cat looked at them and wondered if they were witches and warlocks, but he never found out. The Mayor of Wolvercote had set up a Fund for the survivors. Money poured in from all over the country. All the other survivors took their share and went away to start new lives elsewhere. Only Cat and Gwendolen were left and, since nobody could discover any of their relations, they stayed in Wolvercote.
这本《华研原版 美丽人生 魔法生活 克里斯托曼奇历代记 英文原版小说 Charmed Life 正版进口书》的封面设计,尤其是“Charmed Life”这个英文名,给我一种既熟悉又陌生的感觉。它让我想起了一些经典的童话故事,但又暗示着比童话更成熟、更复杂的叙事。我一直认为,好的故事,无论是哪个国家、哪种语言,其核心情感和主题是共通的。我希望这本书能够提供一种全新的视角,让我看到“幸运”和“魔法”在人们生活中的真实影响。它会是一种恩赐,还是一种诅咒?当生活变得“魔法化”,我们该如何去适应,去驾驭?我渴望看到那些并非完美无缺的角色,他们可能拥有魔法,但也会犯错,会迷茫,会经历失败。我希望他们的“魔法生活”并非一帆风顺,而是在一次次的跌倒中学会站起,在一次次的困境中找到解决之道。我期待书中对人际关系的描写,魔法是否会成为人与人之间关系的催化剂,或是阻碍?我希望在阅读过程中,能被书中角色的坚韧和智慧所打动,也能从中汲取力量,去面对自己生活中的“魔法”时刻。
评分这本《华研原版 美丽人生 魔法生活 克里斯托曼奇历代记 英文原版小说 Charmed Life 正版进口书》简直是打开了我对奇幻世界的一扇新窗。我一直是魔法故事的忠实拥趸,从孩提时代沉迷的童话,到如今追逐的各类奇幻巨著,我对那些充满想象力、能将读者带入另一个维度的故事有着近乎执念的喜爱。这本书的名字,尤其是“魔法生活”和“克里斯托曼奇历代记”,瞬间就勾起了我的好奇心。预感到这将是一场充满未知与惊奇的冒险,我迫不及待地想知道,在这个“美丽人生”的框架下,会发生怎样令人目眩神迷的魔法?故事的主角们是否会拥有与众不同的天赋,他们将如何运用这份力量去面对生活中的挑战?我尤其期待书中对魔法体系的构建,是那种严谨的、有章可循的法则,还是天马行空的、不受拘束的想象?我希望作者能在字里行间描绘出令人信服的魔法世界,让读者能够身临其境,感受到魔法的脉动。同时,“历代记”这个词也暗示着故事可能蕴含着深厚的历史积淀和家族传承,这让我对角色的成长轨迹和家族的秘密充满了期待。总而言之,这本书在我心中已经种下了一颗充满魔力的种子,我渴望着它能在我心中生根发芽,开出绚烂的魔法之花。
评分我一直在寻找能够带我逃离现实、进入另一个奇幻世界的读物,而《华研原版 美丽人生 魔法生活 克里斯托曼奇历代记 英文原版小说 Charmed Life 正版进口书》恰好满足了我对这种“逃离”的期待。“魔法生活”这个词语本身就充满了诱惑力,它勾勒出一种超越日常、充满惊喜的生活图景。我希望这本书能为我呈现一个构建得极其细致、引人入胜的魔法世界,无论是奇特的生物、古老的咒语,还是令人惊叹的魔法场所,都能让我沉浸其中,忘却现实的烦恼。我尤其关注故事中的“历代记”部分,这是否意味着我会跟随一个家族,跨越几个世代,见证他们的兴衰起伏?我希望故事中的人物能够立体而鲜活,他们的动机、他们的选择,都能让读者感同身受。我希望在阅读的过程中,能够体验到肾上腺素飙升的冒险,也能感受到角色之间深厚的情感羁绊。总而言之,我期待这本书能够成为我精神的“绿洲”,让我可以在喧嚣的世界里,找到一片属于自己的魔法净土,尽情享受一次身临其境的奇幻之旅。
评分对于那些能够巧妙融合现实与想象的作品,我总是给予极大的关注。《华研原版 美丽人生 魔法生活 克里斯托曼奇历代记 英文原版小说 Charmed Life 正版进口书》从名字上看,似乎就拥有这种潜力。“美丽人生”这个词语,本身就充满了对美好生活的向往,而“魔法生活”则为这份美好增添了无限的可能性。我希望这本书能够探讨,当魔法成为生活的一部分时,人们该如何去定义“幸福”和“成功”。是拥有强大的魔法能力,还是能够平衡好魔法与现实生活?我尤其对“克里斯托曼奇历代记”这个带有历史传承意味的名字感到好奇,它是否会涉及家族的恩怨情仇,或者某种隐藏在时间长河中的秘密?我希望故事中的人物,即使拥有非凡的能力,也依然能够展现出人性的闪光点和弱点,他们的成长过程充满着挑战和蜕变。我希望这本书能在提供精彩纷呈的魔法冒险的同时,也能引发我对生活意义的思考,让我反思那些看似寻常却蕴含着“魔法”的瞬间。
评分我一直对那些能够触及内心深处、引发深刻思考的作品情有独钟。虽然《华研原版 美丽人生 魔法生活 克里斯托曼奇历代记 英文原版小说 Charmed Life 正版进口书》听起来充满了奇幻的色彩,但我也同样期待它能在“美丽人生”的背后,隐藏着对生活本质的探索。毕竟,真正的美丽,往往不是表面的光鲜亮丽,而是内在的坚韧与成长。我希望故事中的角色,无论他们拥有多么神奇的力量,都能经历人生的起伏,体会喜怒哀乐,并在这些经历中找到属于自己的意义。我希望“魔法生活”不仅仅是施展法术的便利,更能代表一种超越平凡的生活哲学,一种在困境中依旧能保持乐观和希望的态度。我也对“克里斯托曼奇历代记”这个颇具神秘感的名字感到好奇,它是否暗示着一种关于命运的博弈,或者是一种关于选择与承担的深刻主题?我希望作者能够通过细腻的笔触,刻画出人物复杂的情感世界,让我们看到他们在魔法光环下,同样是血肉之躯,有着凡人的喜怒哀乐和内心的挣扎。如果这本书能在引人入胜的故事情节中,也能带给我一些关于人生、关于勇气、关于爱与失去的思考,那将是我最为欣喜的收获。
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