碧河彼時: 我的劍橋童年

Period Piece : A Cambridge Childhood

[基本信息/Product Details]

Publisher : Faber & Faber; Main edition (1 Feb. 2018)

Language : English

Paperback : 288 pages

ISBN-10 : 0571339034

ISBN-13 : 978-0571339037

Dimensions : 13.46 x 19.81 cm

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

[書籍內容/Book De*ion]

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本書為《時代週刊》65週年紀念版

本書是作者對自己的劍橋童年和對整個家族的回憶。她不採用編年史形式、而採用主題（topic）形式撰寫這份回憶錄，將全部內容納入了13個主題：1、紐納姆莊園（達爾文的劍橋宅邸），2、理論，3、教育，4、淑女，5、體統，6、艾蒂姑姑，7、唐恩府（達爾文的鄉村宅邸），8、幽靈和恐怖，9、五位叔叔，10、宗教，11、娛樂，12、服裝，13、社交。

作者由於家族關係，與劍橋社會水乳交融，這是其他劍橋回憶錄作者難以具備的背景。她以畫家為業，稱本書為“我童年世界的一個畫卷”，並親手畫了數十幅插圖，這是其他回憶錄難以具備的特色。她生活在一個“美好的老英格蘭”餘韻未絕的時代，她的家族又屬於上中產階級，即英國社會的脊樑或主流，因此，她的回憶錄所貫穿的那種風格、情緒、品位，在當今這個浮躁的時代令人回味無窮。

This new edition celebrates the 65th anniversary of the publication of Period Piece, which has never been out of print.

This new edition celebrates the 65th anniversary of the publication of Period Piece, which has never been out of print.

Period Piece is the classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, written by Charles Darwin's granddaughter. It evokes a time when long summer days were disturbed by nothing noisier than a horse, and long winter nights were lit only by candle or gas lamp. It is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of eccentric relations, and of Cambridge society when it was small enough to be treated as an extension of the family. As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small incidents of life, recorded here in delightful prose and beautiful illustrations, reveal an artist's careful eye.

[作者簡介/Author]

格温·拉弗拉（1885-1957），達爾文的孫女，一個劍橋望族的成員。她的劍橋回憶錄堪稱一部非小説類的幽默小説，一部公認的文學經典。自1952年初版以來，被反覆重印，從不曾脱版。英國大多數主流報刊對它評價極高，例如《泰晤士報—文學副刊》評論説：“《舊跡遺蹤》是一本自始至終令人愉悦的讀物，帶有大量漫不經心的幽默和智慧，……雷維拉特夫人絕沒有浪得達爾文的虛名。”

Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. In 1911 she married the French painter Jacques Raverat, and she was an artist, illustrator and wood engraver in her own right. She published her memoir, Period Piece, in 1952.

[系列簡介/Series Introduction]

1929年在倫敦成立的Faber Books是具有悠久歷史的出版社之一。專注於出版了在小説、非小説、詩歌和戲劇領域上比較著名的聲音，作者名單包括13位諾貝爾獎得主和6位布克獎得主，包括T·S·艾略特、特德·休斯、哈羅德·品特、西爾維亞·普拉斯、威廉·戈爾丁、塞繆爾·貝克特、謝默斯·希尼和石黑一雄。

Founded in 1929 in London, Faber is one of the world's great publishing houses. Our list of authors includes thirteen Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners. We are proud to publish the foremost voices in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama, with writers including T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Harold Pinter, Sylvia Plath, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney and Kazuo Ishiguro.