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Edith Wharton’s masterpiece brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age. Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite May Welland, when he meets her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal. As all three are drawn into a love triangle filled with sensuality, subtlety, and betrayal, Archer faces a harrowing choice between happiness and the social code that has ruled his life. The resulting tale of thwarted love is filled with irony and surprise, struggle and acceptance. Recipient of the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction ever awarded to a woman, this great novel paints a timeless portrait of “society” still unmatched in American literature—an arbitrary, capricious social elite that professes inviolable standards but readily abandons them for greed and desire.
伊迪丝·华顿(Edith Wharton, 1862-1937)是纽约一个名门望族琼斯家的女儿。和她的朋友亨利·詹姆斯一样,她在家中接受了良好的教育,后来多次出国旅行。1885年她和一个比她大十三岁的有钱的波士顿人爱德华·华顿结了婚。此人性格虽好,但他们却很少共同之处,几年以后,爱德华患了精神病,最终导致了他们的离婚,从此以后,伊迪丝长住巴黎,直到1937年去世。
伊迪丝·华顿起初是为了排遣上流社会家庭生活的苦闷而开始写作的。她从1880年开始发表小说,1889年第一部短篇小说集问世,获得了意外的成功。1905年长篇小说《快乐之家》出版,使她成了20世纪前二十年最受欢迎的美国作家。1920年出版的《纯真年代》为她获得了普利策奖。她一共写了十九部中长篇小说,出版过十一本短篇小说集,还有大量的非小说作品。
‘I want somehow get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won’t exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the life to each other, and nothing else will matter.’ ‘Oh, my dear - whe...
评分The Age of Innocence 无论是书还是电影,常年都列于各自的TOP TEN列表的NO.1。 即使之后感动的文字或画面仍时有,纯真年代所带来的触动和共鸣,却耿耿于怀地存于血液之中。 乃至成为人生的一部分。 一直在想,以怎样的一种文体,怎样的一种姿态,怎样一种叙述语气,或是在怎样...
评分这本《纯真年代》是在一声声感叹中阅读完的。相对于狄更斯、莫泊桑、歌德、哈代这些伟大男性作家创作的作品而言,我更喜欢诸如伊迪丝华顿这样的女作家笔下产生的作品,也许是出于我刚刚学会欣赏小说的时候(之前也读过几本,但却根本称不上是欣赏)所研读的几部作品都是出自英...
评分如果只看梗概的话,伊迪丝·华顿的这部经典作品《纯真年代》,其实不过是一个再俗套不过的三角恋故事——里面有一个单纯的小姑娘,一个优雅的贵妇人,再加上摇摆不定的、善良但执意的男青年。故事里的人们就像是没有别的事情可做似的,整日只知道谈恋爱,“衣带渐宽终不悔,为...
评分"Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of a duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites. Looking about him, he honoured his own past, and mourned for it." 读着真叫人心酸。
评分世俗中被禁忌的爱情....人终究不能完全自由
评分世俗中被禁忌的爱情....人终究不能完全自由
评分10天读完一本原版,我还是对自己挺满意的。可是为此要写两篇论文,真是鸭梨山大的说。
评分"But she was trained to conceal imaginary wounds under a Spartan smile." 纯真面具下的心机。
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