THE BEAUTIFUL CHILD: A GHOST STORY
Book ID/图书代码： 10725012B58531
English Summary/英文概要： Based on a tale by Henry James this is part literary detective story, part analysis of a great writer’s irresistible urge to place real people in his fiction. The Beautiful Child is a Christmas fireside story that takes apart the horrors of The Turn of the Screw and demonstrates the new ones of today.
We read Henry James’s one unfinished tale in this chilling account of cruelty and neglect, The Beautiful Child, which he abandoned in 1902. And we learn that there is a terrifying real scandal behind the story of James’s inability to proceed with his story of a couple who beseech a fashionable artist to paint the child they never had. The scandal involves the dypsomaniac Mr and Mrs Smith, who have served James for sixteen years at the time of their master’s unsuccessful attempt to complete his story.
Are the Smiths the evil progenitors of Quint and Jessel in The Turn of the Screw? Will the chief guest at a house part, the Professor of English Jan Sunderland, solve the mystery of the terrible hauntings at Lamb House in Rye. The Beautiful Child fills out the unfinished story and ends on a note of terror that would have surely been appreciated by James himself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 根据亨利.杰姆斯的小说《旋紧螺丝》改编，《漂亮的孩子》是一部侦探文学作品，并且加入了对原著中人性的分析。这个故事适合在圣诞夜在火炉边上娓娓道来，因为它去除了《旋紧螺丝》中骇人的部分，为我们呈现了一个全新的故事。
《漂亮的孩子》中原本也充满了令人心寒而残忍的部分，这个故事是说一对夫妇祈求当时红极一时的画家为他们从未拥有过的一个孩子画一幅画像，亨利.杰姆斯于1902年停止了这部作品的写作。据我们了解，亨利之所以停写还与这个故事背后一个真实的丑闻有关。这个丑闻涉及了曾服侍了亨利16年之久的史密斯夫妇，他们是严重的耽酒症患者。
史密斯夫妇是《旋转螺丝》中昆特和杰塞尔的原型吗？作者本身会不会也是小说中的某个人物。英语教授简.桑德兰在作品《羔羊屋》中为我们解决了这些疑惑。《漂亮的孩子》由艾玛.泰德宁执笔完成，她终结了作品中悲惨骇人的部分，相信亨利.杰姆斯本人也会欣赏这样的结局的。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况：’Since the death of Angela Carter, Tennant has been the queen of Gothic. Postmodern excursions into chaos are what she does best; there is nothing quite like being with her in a Tardis. . an ingenious tale. . . only increases the tension in the classic story at its heart’ – Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph
’This is not simply an updated tale or a tribute to The Master. It is also a strike for modernism, the modernism in James, a rallying call for the challenging and the difficult that lie behind the cosy terror of a ghost story.’ --Lesley McDowell, Glasgow Herald
About the Author/作者介绍： 艾玛•坦南特，代表作有《彭伯利》。艾玛出生在伦敦，童年盛夏，她总会去位于苏格兰哥特式风格的豪宅中度假。生于1960年代动荡的伦敦，艾玛长大后成为了一名旅游作家，并为一些月刊当专栏作家。1975年，她创立了颇具影响力的文学杂志《香蕉》。她的第一部小说《雨的颜色》于1963年用笔名发表。1973年，她发表了启示录《时间的裂痕》，之后又以《裂痕》为名再版。从此之后，她成为了全职小说家，作品也源源不断地问世，题材也各色各样，包括惊悚，幻想，儿童作品以及一系列为经典名著改编的颠覆性的番外。她对经典作品的兴趣使她开始重新编写原有的作品，并且混合了预言、讽刺、从女性角度分析了父系社会以及多重人格。她于1982年成为英国皇家文学学会的一员，于1996年获得了阿伯丁大学的文学学士学位。 Emma Tennant – author of Pemberley – was born in London and spent her child hood summers at the family’s Gothic-style mansion in Scotland. Emerging in 1960s swinging London, she worked as a travel writer and features editor for monthly magazines. In 1975 she founded the influential literary magazine Bananas. Her first novel, The Colour of Rain, was published in 1963 under a pseudonym. She became a full-time novelist in 1973 with the apocalyptic The Time of the Crack, later reprinted as The Crack. Many books have followed, including thrillers, comic fantasies, works for children and a series of subversive ‘sequels’ to much-loved classics. Her interest in archetypal narratives has led her to reinterpret other canonical texts in a characteristic voice blending witty fable, social satire, a feminist analysis of patriarchy and an engagement with divided identity. Made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1982, she was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Aberdeen in 1996.
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