"Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."
--from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) by Mark Twain
--from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) by Mark Twain
Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn, the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.
Noah Altshuler is now the writer-in-residence at the The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently adapting Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for the stage.
《湯姆歷險記》（The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain），台北：正中書局，1953年。
（1953 民四二 卅一歲 翻譯馬克吐溫之《湯姆歷險記》（The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain），由正中書局出版。此書為以「姚一葦」之名寫作之始，嗣後以筆名聞於世。）【這本的翻譯本極多…….】
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was a great success and is considered a classic ...whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.
董昭輝英文注解本"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"台北：遠東，1967
composite order of architecture 複合式建造物
《湯姆索耶歷險記》南京：譯林，2000
建築上的混合型結構
- 2 ((C-))《建築》コンポジット式の，混合柱式の：イオニア様式とコリント様式を折衷した.
- 混合柱式是一種出現於古羅馬時期的大理石柱樣式，結合了愛奧尼亞和科林斯柱式的風格，柱首採用渦紋，以葉形裝飾。Wikipedia： English
- 進一步翻譯對照，參考：composite order of architecture. built for "style," not service--she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.
Today in the 180th anniversary of the birth of Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on this day in 1835.
"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
--from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876)
--from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876)
Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood, and of all his works his beloved novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer most enchantingly and timelessly captures the sheer pleasure of being a boy. Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he is reckless and mischievous, whether conning his friends into painting a fence, playing pirates with his pal Huck Finn, witnessing his own funeral, or helping to catch a murderer. Twain’s novel glows with nostalgia for the Mississippi River towns of his youth and sparkles with his famous humor, but it is also woven throughout with a subtle awareness of the injustices and complexities of the old South that Twain so memorably portrays. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/…/1…/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/
