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Описание
Сборник рассказов, в котором автор исследует темы любви, благотворительности, мифов и культурных различий через разнообразные персонажи и события.
Главный конфликт / проблема
Конфликт между любовью Алонзо и Розанны и вмешательством Бёрли, а также критика идеалов благотворительности и их скрытых мотивов
Ключевые идеи
- Одиночество и поиск общения в холодном обществе
- Любовь как спасение от скуки и одиночества
- Влияние лжи и обмана на отношения
- Технологии (телефон) как средство связи и защиты
- Чрезмерная благосклонность может обернуться хаосом и трагедией.
- Идеалы доброты часто скрывают скрытые мотивы и личные выгоды.
- Абсурд и ирония в человеческих поступках служат критикой романтизированного альтруизма.
- Показывается, как идеалы благотворительности могут привести к личной изнурённости и разочарованию.
- Правильный выбор спасает жизнь и благополучие.
- Символика животных как хранителей судьбы.
- Роль детей и будущего в обществе.
- Непредсказуемость погоды и её влияние на жизнь.
Вывод
Книга приводит к выводу, что искренность и честность важнее обмана, а идеалы благотворительности могут обернуться трагедией, если не учитывать скрытые мотивы
Кому полезна
- Любители художественной литературы
- Интересующиеся психологией и культурными темами
- Студенты литературы
Главные темы
- Любовь и честность
- Идеалы благотворительности и их последствия
- Мифология и культурные различия
Персонажи
- Алонзо Фитц — Любит уют, ищет компанию, влюбляется в Розанну, переживает обман Бёрли
- Тётя Сьюзен — Помогает Алонзо найти компанию, вводит Розанну
- Розанна Этельтон — Молодая певица, влюблена в Алонзо, участвует в телефонном браке
- Мистер Сидни Алгернон Бёрли — Пытается помешать отношениям Алонзо и Розанны
- Рев. Мелтон Харграв — Обещает защитить музыку от кражи, но его изобретение задерживается
- Благосклонный врач — Лекарь, который лечит пуделя и становится жертвой цепочки благодарностей.
- Снодграсс — Помогает молодому автору, но в итоге становится бременем.
- Снагсби — Ищет признания, получает помощь, но в итоге становится знаменитостью.
- Молодой герой (William Ferguson) — Спасает мальчика, получает награду, но сталкивается с семейными трагедиями.
- Butterworth Stavely — Пытается подорвать власть на острове Питкэрн, становится императором, но его правление заканчивается восстанием.
- Хуберт — Добрый и благородный правитель, чья жизнь спасает певчий зверь.
- Ночной соловей — Певчий зверь, выбранный королём по пророчеству.
Цитаты
- «Тот часовой механизм снова ошибается. Он почти всегда знает, что время, и когда знает, он лжет о нем»
- «Я люблю тебя, и чувствую к тебе. Расскажи мне всё. Доверься мне»
- Beware of the books. They tell but half of the story.
- I might as well acknowledge it, I have been fooled by the books; they only tell the pretty part of the story, and then stop.
- «Up! shouted the king, let all the bells make proclamation to the people, for the choice is made and we have not erred. King, dynasty, and nation are saved. From henceforth let the nightingale be honored throughout the land forever. And publish it among all the people that whosoever shall insult a nightingale, or injure it, shall suffer death. The king hath spoken.»
- «Waw… he! waw… he! waw-he!-waw he!-waw-he!»
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1835–1910. Mark Twain. американский писатель, журналист и общественный деятель (1835–1910)
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Страница 3 из 26"Twenty-five minutes to three! Nearly two hours, and I didn't believe it was two minutes! Is it possible that this clock is humbugging again? Miss Ethelton! Just one moment, please. Are you there yet?"
"Yes, but be quick; I'm going right away."
"Would you be so kind as to tell me what time it is?"
The girl blushed again, murmured to herself, "It's right down cruel of him to ask me!" and then spoke up and answered with admirably counterfeited unconcern, "Five minutes after eleven."
"Oh, thank you! You have to go, now, have you?"
"You—you're there yet, ain't you?"
"Yes; but please hurry. What did you want to say?"
"Well, I—well, nothing in particular. It's very lonesome here. It's asking a great deal, I know, but would you mind talking with me again by and by—that is, if it will not trouble you too much?"
"I don't know but I'll think about it. I'll try."
"Oh, thanks! Miss Ethelton!... Ah, me, she's gone, and here are the black clouds and the whirling snow and the raging winds come again! But she said good-by. She didn't say good morning, she said good-by! ... The clock was right, after all. What a lightning-winged two hours it was!"
He sat down, and gazed dreamily into his fire for a while, then heaved a sigh and said:
"How wonderful it is! Two little hours ago I was a free man, and now my heart's in San Francisco!"
About that time Rosannah Ethelton, propped in the window-seat of her bedchamber, book in hand, was gazing vacantly out over the rainy seas that washed the Golden Gate, and whispering to herself, "How different he is from poor Burley, with his empty head and his single little antic talent of mimicry!"
II
Four weeks later Mr. Sidney Algernon Burley was entertaining a gay luncheon company, in a sumptuous drawing-room on Telegraph Hill, with some capital imitations of the voices and gestures of certain popular actors and San Franciscan literary people and Bonanza grandees. He was elegantly upholstered, and was a handsome fellow, barring a trifling cast in his eye. He seemed very jovial, but nevertheless he kept his eye on the door with an expectant and uneasy watchfulness. By and by a nobby lackey appeared, and delivered a message to the mistress, who nodded her head understandingly. That seemed to settle the thing for Mr. Burley; his vivacity decreased little by little, and a dejected look began to creep into one of his eyes and a sinister one into the other.
The rest of the company departed in due time, leaving him with the mistress, to whom he said:
"There is no longer any question about it. She avoids me. She continually excuses herself. If I could see her, if I could speak to her only a moment—but this suspense—"
"Perhaps her seeming avoidance is mere accident, Mr. Burley. Go to the small drawing-room up-stairs and amuse yourself a moment. I will despatch a household order that is on my mind, and then I will go to her room. Without doubt she will be persuaded to see you."
Mr. Burley went up-stairs, intending to go to the small drawing-room, but as he was passing "Aunt Susan's" private parlor, the door of which stood slightly ajar, he heard a joyous laugh which he recognized; so without knock or announcement he stepped confidently in. But before he could make his presence known he heard words that harrowed up his soul and chilled his young blood, he heard a voice say:
Then he heard Rosannah Ethelton, whose back was toward him, say:
He saw her bowed form bend lower; he heard her kiss something—not merely once, but again and again! His soul raged within him. The heartbreaking conversation went on:
"Rosannah, I knew you must be beautiful, but this is dazzling, this is blinding, this is intoxicating!"
"Alonzo, it is such happiness to hear you say it. I know it is not true, but I am so grateful to have you think it is, nevertheless! I knew you must have a noble face, but the grace and majesty of the reality beggar the poor creation of my fancy."
Burley heard that rattling shower of kisses again.
"Thank you, my Rosannah! The photograph flatters me, but you must not allow yourself to think of that. Sweetheart?"
"I am so happy, Rosannah."
"Oh, Alonzo, none that have gone before me knew what love was, none that come after me will ever know what happiness is. I float in a gorgeous cloud land, a boundless firmament of enchanted and bewildering ecstasy!"
"Oh, my Rosannah!—for you are mine, are you not?"
"Wholly, oh, wholly yours, Alonzo, now and forever! All the day long, and all through my nightly dreams, one song sings itself, and its sweet burden is, 'Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Eastport, state of Maine!'"
"Curse him, I've got his address, anyway!" roared Burley, inwardly, and rushed from the place.
Just behind the unconscious Alonzo stood his mother, a picture of astonishment. She was so muffled from head to heel in furs that nothing of herself was visible but her eyes and nose. She was a good allegory of winter, for she was powdered all over with snow.
Behind the unconscious Rosannah stood "Aunt Susan," another picture of astonishment. She was a good allegory of summer, for she was lightly clad, and was vigorously cooling the perspiration on her face with a fan.
Both of these women had tears of joy in their eyes.
"Soho!" exclaimed Mrs. Fitz Clarence, "this explains why nobody has been able to drag you out of your room for six weeks, Alonzo!"
"So ho!" exclaimed Aunt Susan, "this explains why you have been a hermit for the past six weeks, Rosannah!"
The young couple were on their feet in an instant, abashed, and standing like detected dealers in stolen goods awaiting judge Lynch's doom.
"Bless you, my son! I am happy in your happiness. Come to your mother's arms, Alonzo!"
"Bless you, Rosannah, for my dear nephew's sake! Come to my arms!"
Then was there a mingling of hearts and of tears of rejoicing on Telegraph Hill and in Eastport Square.
Servants were called by the elders, in both places. Unto one was given the order, "Pile this fire high, with hickory wood, and bring me a roasting-hot lemonade."
Unto the other was given the order, "Put out this fire, and bring me two palm-leaf fans and a pitcher of ice-water."
Then the young people were dismissed, and the elders sat down to talk the sweet surprise over and make the wedding plans.
Some minutes before this Mr. Burley rushed from the mansion on Telegraph Hill without meeting or taking formal leave of anybody. He hissed through his teeth, in unconscious imitation of a popular favorite in melodrama, "Him shall she never wed! I have sworn it! Ere great Nature shall have doffed her winter's ermine to don the emerald gauds of spring, she shall be mine!"
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You have to go, now, have you?\""},{"id":"id117:74","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I'm sorry.\""},{"id":"id117:75","kind":"paragraph","text":"No reply."},{"id":"id117:76","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Miss Ethelton!\""},{"id":"id117:77","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Well?\""},{"id":"id117:78","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"You—you're there yet, ain't you?\""},{"id":"id117:79","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Yes; but please hurry. What did you want to say?\""},{"id":"id117:80","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Well, I—well, nothing in particular. It's very lonesome here. It's asking a great deal, I know, but would you mind talking with me again by and by—that is, if it will not trouble you too much?\""},{"id":"id117:81","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I don't know but I'll think about it. I'll try.\""},{"id":"id117:82","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Oh, thanks! Miss Ethelton!... Ah, me, she's gone, and here are the black clouds and the whirling snow and the raging winds come again! But she said good-by. She didn't say good morning, she said good-by! ... The clock was right, after all. What a lightning-winged two hours it was!\""},{"id":"id117:83","kind":"paragraph","text":"He sat down, and gazed dreamily into his fire for a while, then heaved a sigh and said:"},{"id":"id117:84","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"How wonderful it is! Two little hours ago I was a free man, and now my heart's in San Francisco!\""},{"id":"id117:85","kind":"paragraph","text":"About that time Rosannah Ethelton, propped in the window-seat of her bedchamber, book in hand, was gazing vacantly out over the rainy seas that washed the Golden Gate, and whispering to herself, \"How different he is from poor Burley, with his empty head and his single little antic talent of mimicry!\""},{"id":"id116:0","kind":"heading","text":"II"},{"id":"id116:1","kind":"paragraph","text":"Four weeks later Mr. Sidney Algernon Burley was entertaining a gay luncheon company, in a sumptuous drawing-room on Telegraph Hill, with some capital imitations of the voices and gestures of certain popular actors and San Franciscan literary people and Bonanza grandees. He was elegantly upholstered, and was a handsome fellow, barring a trifling cast in his eye. He seemed very jovial, but nevertheless he kept his eye on the door with an expectant and uneasy watchfulness. By and by a nobby lackey appeared, and delivered a message to the mistress, who nodded her head understandingly. That seemed to settle the thing for Mr. Burley; his vivacity decreased little by little, and a dejected look began to creep into one of his eyes and a sinister one into the other."},{"id":"id116:2","kind":"paragraph","text":"The rest of the company departed in due time, leaving him with the mistress, to whom he said:"},{"id":"id116:3","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"There is no longer any question about it. She avoids me. She continually excuses herself. If I could see her, if I could speak to her only a moment—but this suspense—\""},{"id":"id116:4","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Perhaps her seeming avoidance is mere accident, Mr. Burley. Go to the small drawing-room up-stairs and amuse yourself a moment. I will despatch a household order that is on my mind, and then I will go to her room. Without doubt she will be persuaded to see you.\""},{"id":"id116:5","kind":"paragraph","text":"Mr. Burley went up-stairs, intending to go to the small drawing-room, but as he was passing \"Aunt Susan's\" private parlor, the door of which stood slightly ajar, he heard a joyous laugh which he recognized; so without knock or announcement he stepped confidently in. But before he could make his presence known he heard words that harrowed up his soul and chilled his young blood, he heard a voice say:"},{"id":"id116:6","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Darling, it has come!\""},{"id":"id116:7","kind":"paragraph","text":"Then he heard Rosannah Ethelton, whose back was toward him, say:"},{"id":"id116:8","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"So has yours, dearest!\""},{"id":"id116:9","kind":"paragraph","text":"He saw her bowed form bend lower; he heard her kiss something—not merely once, but again and again! His soul raged within him. The heartbreaking conversation went on:"},{"id":"id116:10","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Rosannah, I knew you must be beautiful, but this is dazzling, this is blinding, this is intoxicating!\""},{"id":"id116:11","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Alonzo, it is such happiness to hear you say it. I know it is not true, but I am so grateful to have you think it is, nevertheless! I knew you must have a noble face, but the grace and majesty of the reality beggar the poor creation of my fancy.\""},{"id":"id116:12","kind":"paragraph","text":"Burley heard that rattling shower of kisses again."},{"id":"id116:13","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Thank you, my Rosannah! The photograph flatters me, but you must not allow yourself to think of that. Sweetheart?\""},{"id":"id116:14","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Yes, Alonzo.\""},{"id":"id116:15","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I am so happy, Rosannah.\""},{"id":"id116:16","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Oh, Alonzo, none that have gone before me knew what love was, none that come after me will ever know what happiness is. I float in a gorgeous cloud land, a boundless firmament of enchanted and bewildering ecstasy!\""},{"id":"id116:17","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Oh, my Rosannah!—for you are mine, are you not?\""},{"id":"id116:18","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Wholly, oh, wholly yours, Alonzo, now and forever! All the day long, and all through my nightly dreams, one song sings itself, and its sweet burden is, 'Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Eastport, state of Maine!'\""},{"id":"id116:19","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Curse him, I've got his address, anyway!\" roared Burley, inwardly, and rushed from the place."},{"id":"id116:20","kind":"paragraph","text":"Just behind the unconscious Alonzo stood his mother, a picture of astonishment. She was so muffled from head to heel in furs that nothing of herself was visible but her eyes and nose. She was a good allegory of winter, for she was powdered all over with snow."},{"id":"id116:21","kind":"paragraph","text":"Behind the unconscious Rosannah stood \"Aunt Susan,\" another picture of astonishment. She was a good allegory of summer, for she was lightly clad, and was vigorously cooling the perspiration on her face with a fan."},{"id":"id116:22","kind":"paragraph","text":"Both of these women had tears of joy in their eyes."},{"id":"id116:23","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Soho!\" exclaimed Mrs. Fitz Clarence, \"this explains why nobody has been able to drag you out of your room for six weeks, Alonzo!\""},{"id":"id116:24","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"So ho!\" exclaimed Aunt Susan, \"this explains why you have been a hermit for the past six weeks, Rosannah!\""},{"id":"id116:25","kind":"paragraph","text":"The young couple were on their feet in an instant, abashed, and standing like detected dealers in stolen goods awaiting judge Lynch's doom."},{"id":"id116:26","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Bless you, my son! I am happy in your happiness. Come to your mother's arms, Alonzo!\""},{"id":"id116:27","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Bless you, Rosannah, for my dear nephew's sake! Come to my arms!\""},{"id":"id116:28","kind":"paragraph","text":"Then was there a mingling of hearts and of tears of rejoicing on Telegraph Hill and in Eastport Square."},{"id":"id116:29","kind":"paragraph","text":"Servants were called by the elders, in both places. Unto one was given the order, \"Pile this fire high, with hickory wood, and bring me a roasting-hot lemonade.\""},{"id":"id116:30","kind":"paragraph","text":"Unto the other was given the order, \"Put out this fire, and bring me two palm-leaf fans and a pitcher of ice-water.\""},{"id":"id116:31","kind":"paragraph","text":"Then the young people were dismissed, and the elders sat down to talk the sweet surprise over and make the wedding plans."},{"id":"id116:32","kind":"paragraph","text":"Some minutes before this Mr. Burley rushed from the mansion on Telegraph Hill without meeting or taking formal leave of anybody. He hissed through his teeth, in unconscious imitation of a popular favorite in melodrama, \"Him shall she never wed! I have sworn it! Ere great Nature shall have doffed her winter's ermine to don the emerald gauds of spring, she shall be mine!\""}],"toc":[{"id":"id118:0:1","label":"ALONZO FITZ AND OTHER STORIES by Mark Twain","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85#reader-content"},{"id":"id117:0:1","label":"THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85#reader-content"},{"id":"id116:0:3","label":"II","page":3,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=3#reader-content"},{"id":"id115:0:4","label":"III","page":4,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=4#reader-content"},{"id":"id114:0:5","label":"IV","page":5,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=5#reader-content"},{"id":"id113:0:6","label":"ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING","page":6,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=6#reader-content"},{"id":"id112:0:8","label":"ABOUT MAGNANIMOUS-INCIDENT LITERATURE","page":8,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=8#reader-content"},{"id":"id112:2:8","label":"THE GRATEFUL POODLE","page":8,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=8#reader-content"},{"id":"id112:4:8","label":"SEQUEL","page":8,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=8#reader-content"},{"id":"id112:10:9","label":"THE BENEVOLENT AUTHOR","page":9,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=9#reader-content"},{"id":"id112:13:9","label":"SEQUEL","page":9,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=9#reader-content"},{"id":"id112:17:9","label":"THE GRATEFUL HUSBAND","page":9,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=9#reader-content"},{"id":"id111:0:10","label":"PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH","page":10,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=10#reader-content"},{"id":"id110:0:12","label":"THE GREAT REVOLUTION IN PITCAIRN","page":12,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=12#reader-content"},{"id":"id19:0:16","label":"THE CANVASSER'S TALE","page":16,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=16#reader-content"},{"id":"id18:0:18","label":"AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN INTERVIEWER","page":18,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=18#reader-content"},{"id":"id17:0:19","label":"PARIS NOTES","page":19,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=19#reader-content"},{"id":"id16:0:20","label":"LEGEND OF SAGENFELD, IN GERMANY","page":20,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=20#reader-content"},{"id":"id15:0:21","label":"II","page":21,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=21#reader-content"},{"id":"id14:0:22","label":"SPEECH ON THE BABIES","page":22,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=22#reader-content"},{"id":"id13:0:23","label":"SPEECH ON THE WEATHER AT THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY'S SEVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL DINNER, NEW YORK CITY","page":23,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=23#reader-content"},{"id":"id12:0:24","label":"CONCERNING THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE —","page":24,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=24#reader-content"},{"id":"id11:0:25","label":"ROGERS","page":25,"pageUrl":"/books/29HS7Q85?page=25#reader-content"}]},"similarBooks":[{"idCatalog":787516,"shortId":"038AHbna","title":"Человек-зверь","authorLine":"Эмиль Золя, В. 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