肖申克的救赎(英文版）

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《肖申克的救赎Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption（英文版）》
作者：[美]斯蒂芬·金

简介：
故事发生在1947年，银行家安迪被指控因为妻子有婚外情，酒醉后误用枪杀死了妻子和她的情人，安迪被判无期徒刑，这意味着他将在肖申克监狱中渡过余生。
瑞德1927年因谋杀罪被判无期徒刑，数次假释都未获成功。他现在已经成为肖申克监狱中的“权威人物”，只要你付得起钱，他几乎能有办法搞到任何你想要的东西。每当有新囚犯来的时候，大家就赌谁会在第一个夜晚哭泣。瑞德认为弱不禁风、书生气十足的安迪一定会哭，结果安迪的沉默使他输掉了两包烟。但也使瑞德对他另眼相看。 好长时间以来，安迪几乎不和任何人接触，在大家相互报怨的同时，他在院子里很悠闲地散步，就象在公园里一样。一个月后，安迪请瑞德帮他搞的第一件东西是一把石锤，想雕刻一些小东西以消磨时光，并说自己想办法逃过狱方的例行检查。之后，安迪又搞了一幅丽塔.海华丝的巨幅海报贴在了牢房的墙上。
一次，安迪和另几个犯人外出劳动，他无意间听到监狱官在讲有关税上的事。安迪说他有办法可以使监狱官合法地免去这一大笔税金，做为交换，他为共同工作的犯人朋友每人争得了3瓶啤酒。喝着啤酒，瑞德猜测说安迪只是借用这个偷闲享受自己以前自由的感觉。
一名小偷因盗窃入狱，巧合的是他知道安迪妻子和她情人的死亡真相，兴奋的安迪找到了狱长，希望狱长能帮他翻案。虚伪的狱长表面上答应了安迪，暗中却用计杀死了告诉他这个事实真相的Tommy(安迪在狱中的学生），只因他想安迪一直留在监狱帮他做帐。
安迪知道真相后，决定通过自己的救赎去获得自由！行动之前，他为自己最好的狱友瑞德留下了神秘的留言。
安迪通过艰辛成功“越狱”，典狱长自杀，两个朋友最终相遇，潸然泪下的结局。

RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

There’s a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess – I’m the guy
who can get it for you. Tailor-made cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if you’re partial to that, a
bottle of brandy to celebrate your son or daughter’s high school graduation, or almost
anything else … within reason, that is. It wasn’t always that way.
I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in our
happy little family who is willing to own up to what he did. I committed murder. I put a
large insurance policy on my wife, who was three years older than I was, and then I fixed
the brakes of the Chevrolet coupe her father had given us as a wedding present. It worked
out exactly as I had planned, except I hadn’t planned on her stopping to pick up the
neighbour woman and the neighbour woman’s infant son on the way down Castle Hill
and into town. The brakes let go and the car crashed through the bushes at the edge of the
town common, gathering speed. Bystanders said it must have been doing fifty or better
when it hit the base of the Civil War statue and burst into flames.
I also hadn’t planned on getting caught, but caught I was. I got a season’s pass into this
place. Maine has no death penalty, but the district attorney saw to it that I was tried for all
three deaths and given three life sentences, to run one after the other. That fixed up any
chance of parole I might have, for a long, long time. The judge called what I had done ‘a
hideous, heinous crime’, and it was, but it is als