THE LITERARY TRAVELLER IN EDINBURGH ：A BOOK LOVER’S GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S FIRST CITY OF LITERATURE
Book ID/图书代码： 08430005B08249
English Summary/英文概要： The Literary Traveller in Edinburgh is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated, literary sightseeing guide for natives and visitors alike. Easy to use and easy to read in its attractive format, it is the essential guide for all bookworms and literary pilgrims. For centuries, Edinburgh has been home, inspiration and muse to writers. Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Sir Walter Scott and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were born in the city. John Buchan, J.M. Barrie and Robert Burns lived there. Visiting literati who praised and condemned it include Dickens, Defoe, Tennyson, Thackeray, Dr Johnson and George Eliot, while poets Robert Garioch, Sorley Maclean, Norman MacCaig, Alan Bold and Hugh MacDiarmid drank Edinburgh pubs dry in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. The city has inspired classic and controversial works of literature such as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Regeneration and the novels of Irvine Welsh and Ian Rankin. Edinburgh’s main railway terminus, Waverley, was named after the novel by Sir Walter Scott, and how many other cities can boast a memorial to a native author that dominates its skyline as does the Scott Monument on Princes Street? Added to this, the Edinburgh International Book Festival is now the largest book festival in the world. Exploring Edinburgh’s literary past and present is synonymous with exploring and traversing the great city itself - a city which truly deserves the accolade World City of Literature.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《爱丁堡的文化之旅》是第一部全方位、插图丰富的文化景观之旅，无论是苏格兰本地人还是到此地的游客都可以从中收益匪浅。这本手册浅显易懂，排版新颖、别致，爱看书的朋友以及热中文化朝拜的人一定不可以少了它。综观历史，爱丁堡一直是文人墨克汇聚一堂的圣地，从这里他们汲取了很多创作和思考的元素。罗伯．路易丝．史蒂文斯，丝帕克，瓦尔特·司各脱爵士等等英国文坛上响当当的巨擘都出生在这个城市。约翰·巴肯，马修-巴里也在这里住了很长一段时间。
迪更斯，丹尼尔·笛福，丁尼生，萨克雷，乔治·艾略等名家对爱丁堡又是褒贬不一，既爱又恨，而在五、六、七十年代，像罗伯特.盖瑞俄克，索利·麦克林这样的诗人则经常会光顾爱丁堡的酒吧，尽情畅饮。爱丁堡激发了无数经典作品的创作源泉，譬如《杰柯博士与海德先生的奇案》，《琼布罗迪小姐的青春》又名《锦绣年华》，以及欧文威尔许创作的多部小说都从这里汲取了养分。爱丁堡最大的火车站Waverley就是根据瓦尔特·司各脱爵士的小说命名的。再说太子街上的SCOTT MONUMENT（纪念苏格兰大文豪SCOTT），它在爱丁堡的整个城市景观中的地位是绝对至高无上，这一点恐怕在别的城市也是很难觅掘到的。爱丁堡的另一个亮点是爱丁堡国际图书节，它已发展成全球规模最庞大的书展。我们在探索爱丁堡过去和现在的文化现象的同时，也是在挖掘，穿越这座城市----一座真正值得配得上世界文化之都的美称。
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