英文名：At the Back of the North Wind
中文名：北風(fēng)的背影
作者: George MacDonald
難度：850L
內(nèi)容介紹：
《北風(fēng)的背影》由指導(dǎo)劉易斯-卡羅爾并鼓勵他將《愛麗絲》投稿出版的人所寫，如今已是維多利亞時代兒童文學(xué)中被遺忘的經(jīng)典之作。
故事講述了一個名叫戴蒙德的小男孩，是英國鄉(xiāng)村豪宅里一個馬車夫的兒子。戴蒙德睡在馬廄上面的草棚里，晚上他發(fā)現(xiàn)自己被墻上的洞口吹來的風(fēng)打擾了。他試圖堵住它們，但有一天晚上，他聽到一個威嚴(yán)的聲音，責(zé)備他這樣做！這是北風(fēng)的聲音。這是宏偉的北風(fēng)對他說話，并告訴他，他關(guān)閉了她的窗戶。戴蒙德感到疑惑和好奇，開始與這位傲慢的女士對話，然后邀請他和她一起旅行，去看看廣闊的世界。接下來是一系列奇妙的冒險和經(jīng)歷，在這些經(jīng)歷中，偉大的北風(fēng)教會了戴蒙德人類最寶貴的課程--關(guān)于真、善、美和愛。
據(jù)說，這本書給CS劉易斯等作家?guī)砹遂`感。作者喬治-麥克唐納是當(dāng)時的文學(xué)名家。他是當(dāng)時偉大的藝術(shù)家、作家和哲學(xué)家的朋友，如約翰-羅斯金、查爾斯-狄更斯、威爾基-柯林斯、安東尼-特洛洛普、沃爾特-惠特曼、亨利-沃茲沃斯-朗費羅等人的朋友，他除了是一位天才的詩人和作家外，還是一位受命的教會牧師。他的作品包括小說、幻想故事、兒童故事、詩歌、非虛構(gòu)作品和宗教論著。他也是刑事改革的堅定倡導(dǎo)者，反對任何形式的懲罰，相信愛可以戰(zhàn)勝一切。
在北風(fēng)的背影》被許多學(xué)者看作是一個寓言故事。但對于年輕讀者來說，這只是一個令人興奮的幻想故事。
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Written by the man who mentored Lewis Carroll and encouraged him to submit Alice for publication, At the Back of the North Wind is today a forgotten classic of Victorian children's literature.
The story tells of a young boy named Diamond, the son of a coachman in an English country mansion. Diamond sleeps in the hayloft above the stables and at night he finds he's disturbed by the wind blowing through the holes in the wall. He tries to plug them but one night, he hears an imperious voice scolding him for doing this! It is the magnificent North Wind that speaks to him and tells him that he's closed up her windows. Puzzled and intrigued, Diamond begins a conversation with this haughty lady who then invites him to travel with her and see the wide world. What follows is a series of wonderful adventures and experiences in which the great North Wind teaches Diamond the most valuable lessons that a human being can learn – about truth, goodness, beauty and love.
The book is said to have inspired writers like CS Lewis. The author, George Macdonald was a literary luminary of his day. Friend of the great artists, writers and philosophers of the day like John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Antony Trollope, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a host of others, he was an ordained minister of the Church besides being a gifted poet and writer. His body of work includes novels, fantasy stories, children's stories, poetry, non-fiction and religious treatises. He was also a staunch advocate of criminal reform and opposed punishment in any form, believing that love could conquer everything.
At the Back of the North Wind has been seen by many scholars as an allegorical tale. But for young readers, it is simply an exciting fantasy story.
