寻中英文对照版《牛虻》

书评，不过也有点儿内容介绍。

Book Review: The Gadfly

[HARRYROOLAART.COM] - E.L. Voynich (Ethel Lilian), an author virtually unknown to us, published The Gadfly (1904) to rave reviews. Her novel, set in Italy in the 1800's, a tumultuous time of revolt and uprisings, features the hero as a mysterious satiricist hired by revolutionaries to set a nation into revolt. At once a romance, tragedy and heroic story, Voynich leaves us with passionate characters, an excellent plot, and expertly incorporates them into the author's daring and controversial theme; one that shocks and renders this novel’s lasting originality indisputable.

In short: if religion is the opiate of the masses, then Voynich’s The Gadfly effectively places its readers in a clinic to “kick the habit”. The book’s title page clearly forewarns us of what is to come; it poses the thematic question: “What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth?” Set in and around the year 1846, the story be