约翰•丹顿(John Darnton)
他曾经是《纽约时报》著名记者。
他两度夺得乔治•波尔克奖。更凭借一则在冷战时期偷渡出波兰的故事,荣膺普利策奖。
他的第一部畅销之作《尼安德特人》被誉为“具有广博知识的一种娱乐性阅读”。导演斯皮尔伯格购买了这本书的电影改编权。
他所有的作品,包括《尼安德特人》、《生命》、《灵魂捕手》和《实验》等都是美国当年最红小说,均被翻译成多种语种。
In this riveting new novel, bestselling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the many mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin.
What led Darwin to the theory of evolution? Why did he wait twenty-two years to write On the Origin of Species? Why was he incapacitated by mysterious illnesses and frightened of travel? Who was his secret rival? These are some of the questions driving Darnton’s richly dramatic narrative, which unfolds through three vivid points of view: Darwin’s own as he sails around the world aboard the Beagle; his daughter Lizzie’s as she strives to understand the guilt and fear that struck her father at the height of his fame; and that of present-day anthropologist Hugh Kellem and Darwin scholar Beth Dulcimer, whose obsession with Darwin (and with each other) drives them beyond the accepted boundaries of scholarly research. What Hugh and Beth discover - Lizzie’s diaries and letters lead them to a hidden chapter of Darwin’s autobiography - is a maze of bitter rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, at the heart of which lies the birth of the theory of evolution.
最近在读的书都是双线结构 这种结构的用意和好处 常读书的人都很清楚 但是这本书首先从结构上就感觉蹩脚 一条线以现代的休为主人公 一条线 掺杂了第三人称叙述达尔文小猎犬号上的经历+达尔文女儿的日记 意图很明显 一条线是后世人揭开重重迷雾找寻真相 另一条线是以当时的发展...
评分华莱士,马修斯,达尔文,麦考密克,一切都源于世界尽头的隐士的启迪,理论的发现那么扑朔迷离,作为后人的我们很难去发现事实的真相,众说纷纭,华莱士一直活在达尔文的阴影之下,麦考密克作为达尔文的竞争对手,他的一切又很难说的清。历史的真相的挖掘是如此费力,盖棺未必...
评分 评分或许我老了, 已无法阅读拖沓的情节, 无法阅读一开头就毫无矛盾和冲突的情节, 无法阅读没有张力的设定, 如果,小说作为一个娱乐项目, 比我们的生活还平淡, 小说家还要写小说做什么? 我读不下去了,读到第六章,决定果断停掉. 还是把凯鲁亚克的<荒凉天使>读完再说吧.
评分本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈图书下载中心 版权所有