英文文学名著《花园舞会》.pdfVIP

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 作者简介 Mansfield, Katherine曼斯菲尔德,凯瑟琳（1888-1923）， Kathleen Mansfield Murry的笔名，娘家姓Beauchamp，短篇小说作 家，生于新西兰惠灵顿。曾在伦敦女皇学院学习，又在新西兰学两年 音乐，随后回到伦敦从事文学创作。在受到某种心灵创伤以后，1918 年与作家默里结婚。她早期受到的心灵创伤对她后来的创作有很大影 响。第一部杰作《序曲》（Prelude,1917）是她童年时代在新西兰的 回忆。在《幸福》（Bliss,1920）和《另外一些故事》（Other Stories,1920）中的《我不会说法语》（ ） 以及《序曲》中一些最优秀的短篇，肯定了她受契诃夫的影响，但具 有创新精神的女作家地位。她患肺结核而过早去世。逝世前出版的另 外两部著作是《花园舞会》（ ）和《另外一 些故事》（1922）。死后出版的著作有《诗集》（Poems,1923）、 《相当幼稚》（Something Childish,1924）、《另外一些故事》 （1924）、《日记》（Joural,1927）和《书信集》（Letters, 1928）。 The Garden Party 1 THE GARDEN PA RTY. And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer . The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes, literally hundreds, had come out in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as though they had been visited by archangels. Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put up the marquee. “Where do you want the marquee put, mother?” “My dear child, it’s no use asking me. I’m determined to leave every- thing to you children this year. Forget I am your mother. Treat me as an honoured guest.” But Meg could not possibly go and supervise the men. She had washed her hair before breakfast, and she sat dri