"Beautiful Joe" is one of Canada's most popular novels over the past century - John Moss (famous Canadian literary critic)
"Beautiful Joe" was once published in Winner of a writing contest from the Humane Society of the United States and later became a long-time best-seller.
——William New (famous Canadian literary historian)
Animal stories are particularly developed in Canadian children's literature. In this tradition, Sanders and "Beautiful Joe" His pioneering contributions are indelible.
——Zhao Huizhen ("Research on Canadian English Women Writers", National Publishing House) About the author Margaret Sanders (1861-1947) was born in the United States and later immigrated to Canada. In 1892 she met the puppy "Beautiful Joe". "Beautiful Joe" was a puppy that was cruelly abused by his owner and was on the verge of death. With the rescue of the kind-hearted Morris family, he got rid of the shadow of abuse and lived a happy life. Margaret Sanders was so moved by its tragic experience that she came to the Morris family and wrote this book after living with them for 6 months.
After the book was published in 1893, it immediately caused a sensation. By 1903, the book's cumulative sales in Canada and the United States reached 1 million copies, becoming the first book in Canadian history to sell more than 1 million copies. In 1930, the book's sales exceeded 10 million worldwide. With this achievement, it was selected as "the most brilliant book of the 20th century" by the Library of Congress. The book was quickly translated into 54 languages ??and spread around the world, and through its dissemination, people became aware of the damage that animal cruelty does to humans and nature. This book has therefore become a must-read for those who love animals from generation to generation! Table of Contents Chapter 1 Just a Mutt
Chapter 2 The Cruel Milkman
Chapter 3 My Merciful Rescuer and Miss Laura
Chapter Chapter 4 The Morris boy added the word "beautiful" to my name
Chapter 5 My new home
Chapter 6 Foxhound
Chapter 7 Training the puppy
Chapter 8 The tortured dog
Chapter 9 Bella the parrot
Chapter 10 Continue to train Billy< /p>
Chapter 11 Goldfish and Canary
Chapter 12 Cat, Malta
Chapter 13 The Beginning of the Adventure
Chapter 14 Capture The Thief
Chapter 15 A Trip to Riverdale
Chapter 16 Tinguely Farm
Chapter 17 Mr. Wood and His Horse
Chapter 18 Mrs. Wood’s Poultry
Chapter 19 Charity Meeting
Chapter 20 Animal Stories
Chapter 21 Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Harry
Chapter 22 What Happened at the Tea Table
Chapter 23 Trapping Wild Animals
Chapter 24 Rabbits and Hens
Chapter 25 The Happy Pony
Chapter 26 The Money Box
Chapter 27 The Abandoned Stable
Chapter 28 The Englishman Ending
Chapter 29 The Story of the Sheep
Chapter 30 A Jealous Bull
Chapter 31 In the Cowshed
Chapter 32 Returning Home
Chapter 33 The Animals’ Show
Chapter 34 The Fire at Philpot
Chapter 35 Billy and the Italians
Chapter 36 Dandy the Stray Dog
Chapter 37 The End of My Story
Reading Guide
[Click to see more Content...] Introduction "Beautiful Joe" is a dying puppy who was cruelly abused by his owner. With the rescue of kind-hearted Miss Laura and the Morris family, he got rid of the shadow of abuse and lived a happy life. happy life.
People around him got to know this puppy, which was actually not very beautiful, and realized through its experience the natural damage that animal abuse has on people themselves. This book has therefore become a must-read for those who love animals from generation to generation. Preface: Life needs strength, beauty and light
- General Preface of "Global Children's Literature Collection Series"
Today's world has entered the Internet age. The new media culture in the Internet age—the Internet, email, television, movies, blogs, podcasts, mobile phones, audio and video, online games, digital photos, etc.—provides people with more choices and convenience for acquiring knowledge, but reading is still appear important. Time carves classics, and reading shapes life. Although reading cannot change the length of life, it can broaden the width of life, especially reading classic literature.
People need literature just like they need fresh air and clear springs in survival. We believe in the power and beauty of literature, just as we believe in the starry sky above our heads and the morality in our hearts.
The contemporary German philosopher Heidegger described the beauty of literature this way: Literature is a landscape that creates a new poetic world between the earth and the sky, and creates a life of poetic existence. The Chinese writer Lu Xun had a more thorough understanding of literature. He used a vivid metaphor: Literature is the light for the progress of the national spirit. Yes, literature is the treasure that gives our lives strength and beauty, and is the light that always illuminates our spiritual airspace. Why do we need literature? The fundamental reason is that we need strength, beauty and light, and that the true way of human existence always seeks poetic dwelling.
"Global Children's Literature Collection Series" (hereinafter referred to as "Collection Series") is the oasis and light that watches over the poetic dwelling of our spiritual lives. "Collection of Books" invites top experts and scholars in the international children's literature field, as well as heads of organizations such as the International Children's Book Alliance (IBBY), to select, recommend, and identify first-class children's literature from around the world; at the same time, it is organized by A senior domestic translation expert, *** Tonglai translates, appreciates, and guides first-class children's literature masterpieces from around the world. We try to use a new format, new quality, and new style that is different from other foreign children's literature translation series to provide children and readers with a new perspective on the world's children's literature classics.
According to the development trend and reading trend of global children's literature in the new century, "Collection of Books" first focuses on those works that have won international children's literature awards, including the International Andersen Award, Newbery Award, Carnegie Award Awards etc. The International Award is an important evaluation criterion and a cross-cultural international recognition that defines the quality of works. At the same time, "Collection of Books" also focuses on "modern classics" that are contemporary, pioneering, and highly readable. Of course, the "Collection of Books" will also include those timeless traditional classics. We hope that through the organic integration of international awards, modern classics, and traditional classics, we can truly present a global children's literature landscape and vision that is fully classic, rich, inclusive, and contemporary. Different genres such as fairy tales, poetry, prose, and fantasy literature; different artistic themes such as fraternity, growth, nature, and fantasy; different schools such as classicism, romanticism, naturalism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism; English, French In the in-depth reading experience of translations in different languages ??such as German, Russian, Japanese, etc., you can find a poetic dwelling that suits your original heart, realize a spiritual meeting with the world's children's literature masters across time and space, and inspire your spiritual life to stand up and move forward. In this sense, providing classics, analyzing classics, and establishing our own classic system are our greatest visions.
Children’s hearts are always connected, and children’s literature is truly world literature. The ultimate goal of children's literature is to lay a good foundation for human nature. The power and beauty of literature are the nectar that nourishes the spiritual lives of hundreds of millions of children, and are the light that guides humanity toward goodness and life upwards. I hope this book series, which gathers the wisdom and efforts of masters of children's literature around the world and the beautiful vision of mankind to dedicate the most important things to the next generation, will bring the pleasure, interest and theory of reading to hundreds of millions of children and readers. Interesting, may your youth and life be more beautiful and powerful.
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September 18, 2007 [Click to view more content...] Postscript Reading Guide - Reflecting the Beautiful Mind< /p>
Feng Jianwen
"Beautiful Joe" is a story about a dog. The dog narrates it in the first person, telling it vividly and vividly. "Beautiful Joe" is the name of this dog. In fact, it is not beautiful, but a very ugly dog. It was also tortured by its original owner and had its ears and tail cut off. Its new owner was kind and kind. He not only took it in, loved it, and treated it well, but also gave it a nice name like "Beautiful Joe." He lived happily in his new owner's home, living in harmony with other animals, devoted himself to his new owner's home, and performed many loyal and brave behaviors, finally living up to his reputation as "Beautiful Joe."
The author of "Beautiful Joe" is Marshall Saunders (1861-1947), a famous Canadian children's literature writer. She was born in Annapoli, Nova Scotia, the son of a Baptist minister. In her early years, she went to school in Halifax, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Orleans, France. She later returned to Halifax, where she worked as a teacher and wrote. She often traveled to Europe during her holidays and wrote a romantic work "My Spanish Sailor - A Love Story" (1889) based on her personal experiences. In his late thirties, Saunders attended Dalhousie University for a year and went to Ottawa the following year to write "Beautiful Joe" based on the true story of a dog. This real dog is called "Beautiful Joe". Its experience is exactly the same as the story written by Sanders. It was abused by its previous owner. Later, thanks to Sanders' sister-in-law, it took it in and it recovered. Live a happy life. Sanders saw "Beautiful Joe" at his brother's house and heard about its tragic experience. He was deeply moved and stayed at his brother's house for a while to get to know the dog more deeply. After half a year of understanding, Sanders began to create "Beautiful Joe". The animals, characters and various backgrounds in the book have real prototypes.
"Beautiful Joe" is as famous as "Black Beauty" (1877), a horse's autobiography written by British female writer Anna Sewell. When a new version of "Black Beauty" was released in the United States in 1890, it caused a sensation throughout North America. "Beautiful Joe" draws on the animal autobiography of "Black Beauty" to help people deepen their understanding of dogs and arouse people's compassion for dogs through a dog's autobiography. In addition to truly reproducing Joe's tragic experience, the novel also describes his rich experiences after living a stable life, including many anecdotes. He bravely stopped burglars from committing crimes, visited a well-managed farm and a disorganized farm, witnessed a fire that engulfed the entire circus, and had many adventures with children and other small animals. . Some of these stories are touching and some are magical and unique. In addition, the experiences of many other animals, such as bears, foxes, cows, sheep, horses, cats, birds, rabbits, rats, fish, pigeons, chickens, etc., are also told from the perspective and tone of Joe, the dog. It is both true and interesting, especially appealing to young readers.
Although animals cannot speak, they all have strong emotions and high spirituality. The world of animals, like nature, is a very harmonious and interesting world. There are good and evil people in their treatment of animals. Kind people sympathize with animals and regard animals as humans themselves; while evil people hate or even hate animals and take pleasure in killing animals. The Morris family is completely different from Joe's former owner Jenkins on this point: the Morris family is an outstanding family with a high reputation in the local area. The father is a pastor, the mother is kind and virtuous, and the children are all honest and motivated, especially the woman in the story. The protagonist, Miss Laura, is beautiful and kind-hearted, and becomes Joe's best friend, setting an example for humans to understand and treat animals well; and the former owner Jenkins who tortured Joe was himself a cruel and evil person, and ended up breaking into the house and stealing. Who knows what happened? He was discovered by Qiao and finally arrested by the police. As the saying goes, good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds are punished.
In 1895, "Beautiful Joe" was published in Canada and achieved great success. It soon became the first book in Canada to sell more than one million copies, creating a miracle in the history of human publishing. It was later published in the United States, and sales in the United States exceeded 800,000 in 1900. In 1950, its sales worldwide exceeded 10 million, making it the world's largest-selling animal-themed book. To this day, readers all over the world are still reading this novel with deep emotions, sighing for the misfortunes that animals have suffered, rejoicing at the kindness they receive, reflecting on how we can live in harmony with animals, and at the same time grateful for this This female writer has provided us with such wonderful spiritual food.
For two years after the publication of "Beautiful Joe," Sanders sat as an auditor at Boston University while continuing to write children's stories. After entering the 20th century, she created more children's literature, with more than 50 works in total. Among them are the widely circulated "Tilda Jane: Orphan Searching for a Home", the sequel to "Beautiful Joe" "Beautiful Joe's Paradise", "The Graveley Family Story: A Story for Girls", "Alpatau" "Ke: The Story of an Eskimo Dog", "My Pet: The True Story of My Birdhouse", etc. Many of them are highly praised by naturalists for their meticulous observation and scientific value in their descriptions. In 1914, Sanders settled in Toronto and built a house, a "Toad Castle" and an aviary in the garden. She has a soft spot for animals and travels everywhere to give speeches urging people to be kind to animals. From the perspective of the theme of people being kind to animals, "Beautiful Joe" is one of the initiating works of the Western animal protection movement. I don't know how many children, or even generations, have read "Beautiful Joe" and have a correct understanding of animals. The understanding and deep sympathy have cultivated the awareness of protecting animals. This novel has been translated and introduced to our country, and I believe that its impact on our children will never be less than its influence on Western children. [Click to see more...] Highlights (or Trial Snippets) I am a medium-sized brown dog named Beautiful Joe. I'm not called "Beautiful Joe" because I'm pretty. For the past twelve years I have been living in the house of Mr. Morris, the Reverend. Mr. Morris said he thought I should be called "Beautiful Joe" because his grandfather, who was far away in the South, had once made an ugly slave boy. The boy was called Cupid, and the mother of the little boy was called Venus.
I don’t know what he means when he says that, but when he says that, everyone often looks at me and laughs. I know I'm not beautiful, and I know I'm not a purebred dog, I'm just a mutt.
Every year when the hostess takes me to register and pay taxes, the person at the office will ask her what breed I belong to. The hostess would tell the man I was half foxhound, half pit bull, but he always recorded me as a mutt. I don't think the hostess likes people calling me mutts, but I've also heard her say that she prefers mutts because mutts are more distinctive than purebred dogs. Her father said she liked ugly dogs for the same reason as a noble of a certain royal family, that is, she liked what others didn't like.
I am an old dog now and am writing, or rather, asking a friend to help me put down the story of my life.
I have seen my mistress cry and laugh sometimes while reading a little book, which she said was about the life of a horse. Sometimes she would bring the book lower to my nose and let me read it. Picture above.
I love my dear mistress, nothing but love for her, and love her more than anyone else in the world. I thought she would be happy if I wrote a book about a dog's life. She loves mute animals and becomes sad whenever she sees an animal being mistreated.
I once heard her say that if all the boys and girls in the world could stand up and say that animals should no longer be abused, animal abuse would be stopped. So I thought telling my story might help a little bit in that regard. I like boys and I like girls. I have seen many cruel men and women, but very few cruel children. I think the more books about dumb animals the better for us.
I think my story best begins when I was born. I was born in a bullpen on the outskirts of a small town called Fairport, Maine. The first thing I remember is that I was snuggled close to my mother and felt very warm and comfortable; the second thing is that I was constantly hungry. I have a group of six brothers and sisters, and my mother’s milk is definitely not enough to feed so many children. It is often half-starved and half-full, so it is impossible to feed us all.
I hate to say much about my early life. I have lived too long in a home where there was never any harsh words and no one was cruel to anyone or any animal, to feel that it would be unreasonable to even think or say anything about hurting a poor dumb animal. It seems that it shouldn't be done.
My mother's owner was a milkman who had a horse and three cows and a rickety old wagon that he used to pull milk pails. I don't think there is a worse person in the world than this milkman, and I still shudder when I think of him. His name is Jenkins, and it makes me happy to think that he has already been punished for abusing people and dumb animals. If you think it's wrong for me to be happy about this, then you must remember that I'm just a dog.
When he first noticed me, I was just a puppy, just learning to walk. As soon as he saw me, he gave me a hard kick and kicked me into the corner of the bullpen. He often beats my mother and doesn't give her food. I once saw him punishing his mother by beating her with a thick leather whip until it was covered in blood. When I grew older, I asked my mother why it didn't run away, and it said it didn't want to run away. And I soon discovered that the reason it didn't want to run away was that it loved Jenkins, and even though he was cruel and savage, it still loved him. I believe it was even willing to lay down its life for him.
Now that I am older, I realize that there are many people like Jenkins in the world. They are neither crazy nor drunk, they just seem to be inherently evil. There are some wealthy people, yes, some wealthy people, who cruelly abuse animals and even children. Their methods are horribly cruel, and the crimes they commit are countless.
One of the things that makes Jenkins cruel is that he is bored. After he delivered the milk in the morning, until late in the afternoon, he had nothing else to do but tend the cowshed and the yard. If he could keep the stables and yard neat and tidy, feed the horses, clean the cows, and turn the soil in the garden, these tasks would take up all his time. But he doesn't clean up at all, unless the yard or cowshed is so messed up by the things he throws around that there is no place for people to stay, then he will clean it up.
His house and cowshed were some distance from the road, so passers-by could not see how dirty and messy it was. Occasionally, when someone comes to check out the house, Jenkins always knows it in advance, so he cleans up the house and yard before then, so that when the visitor arrives, everything will look neat and tidy.
I used to hope that people who ordered milk from Jenkins would come and see his cows. He would still drive the cows out to pasture in the spring and summer, but all winter the cows would be kept in filthy, dark barns. The cracks in the walls of the cowshed were big enough to let in large flakes of snow, and the ground was always damp and muddy. Jenkins only opened a small window in the north wall, so that the afternoon sunlight would come in, but only for a short time.
Although these cows are unfortunate, they are patient, endure, and never complain. But I still know that on that cold winter night, the biting cold wind blew into the cowshed and almost froze them. They are pitifully skinny and in poor health.
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