FLTC Bookfair Reading: A Tale of Two Cities
《雙城記》一書聽起來十分熟悉,許多人一聽就知道是西方文學經典之一,但你是否有機會真的了解當中講述的故事呢? 一起謀殺案、一段辛酸冤獄路、一場親人團聚、一段愛情故事,還有一個捨己為人的情懷......看起來像是現在新聞報紙上仍會出現的報導,正是出版於十九世紀中葉的《雙城記》故事主軸。所謂太陽底下無新鮮事,《雙城記》的主題聽來似曾相識,在狄更斯的妙筆下,卻顯得深刻動人。 A Wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! - A Tale of Two Cities, Chapter 3 一起來讀《雙城記》,看看善於洞見與描繪人心的狄更斯如何鋪敘這個精采的故事吧!