标题: A Recommendation:Washington Square [打印本页] 作者: Ben. 时间: 2008-1-7 16:34 标题: A Recommendation:Washington Square
Introduction to the Novel
To own a house in Washington Square is a sign of success in nineteenth-century New York,and Dr Austin Sloper is a successful man.He is also a fashionable,interesting,amusing,and clever. His daughter Catherine is none of those things.She is a good,simple girl. who loves and admires her father and always tries hard to please him,but she is great disappointment to him.Dr Sloper does not expect any interest or excitement from Catherine.
But life in Washington Square does becomes rather exciting,after all.Romance arrives,in the shape of a handsome young man who comes to court Catherine.This pleases Catherine's foolish aunt,Mrs Penniman,very much;she thinks Morris Townsend is charming ,and so of course does Catherine.Dr Sloper,however,looks at the young Mr Townsend rather differently.The Doctor is a rich man, and is conscious that after his death Catherine will inherit a fortune of 30,000 dollars a year.He wonders why such a charming and handsome young man is courting his dull daughte.......nN
The novel is not availabe in electronic form,but I can just type the words into the disscussion.作者: Ben. 时间: 2008-1-7 22:13
Chapter one Poor Catherine
In the first half of the nineteenth century, there lived in New York a very successful doctor.(Someone have just remember the sentence 'Long long ago, there lived a king') His successful was for two reasons. He was, without doubt, a good doctor, intelligent and honest, but he also knew how to please his patients. He gave long ,careful explanations about the illness, and always gave them some medicine to take. Indeed, his patients were fond of saying that they had the best doctor in the country.
By the time he was fifty, Doctor Austin Sloper was quite a famous person in New York.His conversation was clever and amusing, and no fashionable party in the city was complete without him.(记住quite的位置).
He was also lucky. In 1820,at the age of twenty-seven, he had married, for love, a very charming girl, who had a fortune of ten thousand dollars a year. For about five years Doctor Sloper was a very happy husband; he continued to work as a doctor and each year became more experienced and more successful.
