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The Inspiring Stories Behind 15 Classic Novels
15部经典小说背后的灵感故事 According to Jack London, "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." London himself took the inspiration for The Call of the Wild (1903) from his time spent living in Canada and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush when high-quality sled dogs -- like those that feature in the book -- were in impossibly high demand. The stories and inspirations behind fifteen more of literature's most memorable titles are explained here:
杰克.伦敦有云，“你不能坐等灵感，你得拿着根棒子追寻它。” 伦敦本人从淘金热时期（加拿大Klondike地区）他住在加拿大和阿拉斯加时的经历为他的小说《野性的呼唤》获取灵感，那时优秀的雪橇狗——就像书中的那些角色——有着无穷的高需求。以下即为十五篇著名文学作品背后的故事和灵感。 
Anna Karenina (1877), Leo Tolstoy
安娜·卡列尼娜（1877），列夫·托尔斯泰
In January 1872, the death of a 35-year-old woman was reported in the Russian press: smartly dressed and carrying a bag containing a change of clothes, the girl had thrown herself under a freight train at Yasenki Station outside Moscow. The woman was identified as Anna Pirogova, a distant relative of Leo Tolstoy's wife and the mistress of his good friend and neighbour, Alexander Bibikov. It soon transpired that Alexander had told Anna that he planned to leave her and marry his son's new governess, and, unable to cope, she had left him a brief note -- "You are my murderer; be happy, if an assassin can be happy" -- and fled. Tolstoy himself attended Anna's post-mortem the following day, and by all accounts the sight of the unrecognisable body of a woman he had known so well stayed with him long afterwards, so that when he came to begin a new novel more than a year later he already had its tragic conclusion in mind.
1872年1月，俄国报纸报道了一位35岁妇女的死讯：衣着楚楚，带着一包换洗衣服，女郎把自己扔入莫斯科外Yasenki火车站一辆外国火车的车轮下。 那位妇女身份被确认为Anna Pirogova，列夫.托尔斯泰妻子的远方亲戚，以及他好友和邻居 Alexander Bibikov的情人。很快有小道消息说，亚历山大曾告诉安娜他计划离开她并娶他儿子的新女家庭教师。对此无能为力，她给他留下一个简短的字条——“你是害死我的人，高兴去吧，如果杀人会是件乐事”——然后逃走。托尔斯泰本人后来参与料理安娜的后事，据说这位作家曾经认识的女子身后模糊难认的遗体在作家的脑海留下了如此长久的印象，以至于一年多后他才能提笔写下这部他早已在心中得出悲剧结论的新小说。
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