所罗门王的宝藏
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard · 初版 1885 年
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为什么值得读
- 篇幅适中且语言风格出人意料地现代易读
- 通俗畅快是感受十九世纪探险小说的理想入门书
- 纯正的老派英伦冒险叙事充满阅读愉悦感
<p>King Solomon’s Mines 于1885年9月出版，因迎合了人们对未知世界的狂热渴望（即当时未被涉足的非洲腹地），迅速跻身畅销书之列。</p> <p>Haggard 在短短六到十六个月的时间里便完成了这部小说，起因是他与兄弟打赌，试图写出一部能与 Robert Louis Stevenson 的 Treasure Island 媲美的小说
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……跳出你想读的那本书之外。所以我觉得入门门槛取决于你想读哪类经典，以及你自身的阅读背景。冒险类经典？面向英语母语者？那果断推荐《所罗门王的宝藏》（King Solomon's Mines）。超赞、通俗刺激、篇幅也不算太长，而且……在某些方面竟然出奇地有现代感？语言年代没那么久远，读起来毫无障碍。哪怕放到2021年来看也极具趣味。要是想看冒险经典加严肃文学？那就《奥德赛》吧。……
…outside the book you're trying to read. So, I'd say entry-level depends on the kind of classic, and where you're coming from. Adventure-classic? For a native English speaker? Easy recommendation for King Solomon's Mines. It's great, it's pulpy, it's not terribly long, it's... weirdly modern in some ways? The language isn't old enough to be hard to read. Delightful, even in 2021. Adventure-classic + literature? The Odyssey.…
……真正被《白鲸记》（Moby Dick）这种作品深深打动并震撼到。我觉得要是给想达到这种境界（如果这算一种成就的话）的人提点建议，那就是去尝试更早期的通俗文学（去读读《所罗门王的宝藏》，太精彩了，然后再慢慢过渡到年代更久远的作品），好习惯一下早期的英语（注意不是古英语 Old English，那完全是另一码事，除非在……里不然你基本碰不到）
…genuinely excited and gripped by something like Moby Dick. I guess if I had any advice to offer to someone wanting to achieve that (if it's an achievement) it'd be to try older popular literature (try King Solomon's Mines, it's amazing, then work your way to even older stuff) to get used to older English (nb not Old English, which is another thing entirely and you're not likely to encounter much of it in anything but an…
如果还没读过，可以试试 A.E.W. Mason 的《四根羽毛》（The Four Feathers）。这本书还改编过两三部电影，看看每部电影在哪些地方以及怎么对原著进行改动，其实挺有意思的。还有 H. Rider Haggard 的《所罗门王的宝藏》。也是老派的英国式冒险，不过船戏没那么多。如果你喜欢浪子反英雄、带着强烈戏谑调侃口吻的故事，可以看看 Fraser 的《莱许曼》（Flashman）系列小说是不是你的……
Try The Four Feathers by AEW Mason, if you haven’t. There are also two or three film adaptations, can be fun to see where and how each deviated from the book. And maybe King Solomon’s Mines by H Rider Haggard. More British old-timey adventuring, though without so many ships. If you want an antihero-rake and a tale told tongue firmly in cheek, see if the Flashman novels by Fraser are to…
……对这些非常成人的关切，反应完全不同。我收到的最棒的礼物之一，就是我爸搬来满满一大箱老派经典冒险小说（像《海底两万里》、《所罗门王的宝藏》、《怒海余生》、《三剑客》、《基督山伯爵》这类作品），接着的一年左右我把它们全都狼吞虎咽地读完了。我敢肯定如果现在去读，我会有很多不同的感触……
…differently to all of these very adult concerns. One of the best gifts I ever got was when my dad plopped down a big box full of old classical adventure novels (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, King Solomon's Mines, Captains Courageous, Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo type of stuff) and I devoured all of them over the course of the next year or so. I'm sure I would appreciate a lot of different things about…
……一直以来也是巨大的驱动力。这有点像在19世纪，世界上大片区域仍未被探索，所以像 H. Rider Haggard 和 Arthur Conan Doyle 这样的作家，能写出《所罗门王的宝藏》或《失落的世界》这样的书，而且人们多少还能相信“这真有可能发生”。现如今，我们对自己所在的这个世界了解得透彻得多。我们随时能在卫星图上查看珠峰大本营。但我们现在开始探索……
…also been a huge motivator. It’s kind of like, in the Nineteenth Century, large parts of the world were still unexplored, so authors like H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle, could write books like King Solomon’s Mines, or The Lost World, and people could sort of believe “it could happen.” These days, we know our world much better. We can call up satellite views of Base Camp, on Mt. Everest. But we are now looking…
> 我不好说……夺宝奇兵（Indiana Jones）真正的灵感来源，比如来自 H. Rider Haggard 小说《所罗门王的宝藏》里的 Allan Quatermain，以及现实中在1920年代率探险队前往蒙古和中国、头戴软呢帽的 Roy Chapman Andrews。印第真正的灵感原型其实是电影《秘境》（The Secret……）里的主角 Harry Steele……
> I don’t know…the actual inspirations for Indiana Jones, like Allan Quatermain from H. Rider Haggard's novels, "King Solomon's Mines", and the real life Roy Chapman Andrews, who led expeditions to Mongolia and China in the 1920s and wore a fedora. The actual inspiration for Indy was protagonist Harry Steele from the movie The Secret…