【英文小说】The Pearl of Love
3页1、【英文小说】The Pearl of Love Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editionswhich are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright noticeis included. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particular paper edition The pearl is lovelier than the most brilliant of crystalline stones, themoralist declares, because it is made through the suffering of a livingcreature. About that I can say nothing because I feel none of thefascination of pearls. Their cloudy lustre
2、 moves me not at all. Nor canI decide for myself upon that agelong dispute whether The Pearl of Loveis the cruellest of stories or only a gracious fable of the immortalityof beauty. Both the story and the controversy will be familiar to students ofmediaeval Persian prose. The story is a short one, though the commentaryupon it is a respectable part of the literature of that period. Theyhave treated it as a poetic invention and they have treated it as anallegory meaning this, that, or the other th
3、ing. Theologians have hadtheir copious way with it, dealing with it particularly as concerningthe restoration of the body after death, and it has been greatly used asa parable by those who write about aesthetics. And many have held it tobe the statement of a fact, simply and baldly true.The story is laid in North India, which is the most fruitful soil forsublime love stories of all the lands in the world. It was in a countryof sunshine and lakes and rich forests and hills and fertile valleys;and
4、 far away the great mountains hung in the sky, peaks, crests, andridges of inaccessible and eternal snow. There was a young prince, lordof all the land; and he found a maiden of indescribable beauty anddelightfulness and he made her his queen and laid his heart at her feet.Love was theirs, full of joys and sweetness, full of hope, exquisite,brave and marvellous love, beyond anything you have ever dreamt of love.It was theirs for a year and a part of a year; and then suddenly,because of some veno
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