Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Modern Classics) 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 英國 小說 kindle E.M.Forster
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"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world."
When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby -- and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.
In his first novel, E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry.
书不长,很吸引人,两天就看完了。英国的拘谨和刻板,意大利的美与生机,两种文化形成了鲜明的对比。 假如一开始是阿博特小姐嫁给吉诺,也许就不会有悲剧的发生了,结局会很好多,她清楚得看透吉诺的本来面目——不过是一个有着男人力气与激情的小男孩而已。可惜世界上没有如果...
評分 評分两出悲剧:一个女人挣脱故乡刻板的伦理道德规范的精神压抑约束,却死于对异域少年盲目而匆忙的浪漫爱情幻想;一个婴儿死于北方国度对南方国度的偏见和歧视。刻板无趣的英伦与浪漫奔放的意大利之间的文化碰撞,两种价值观的较量,最终没有胜负。 另一个女人又重蹈死去的女人的覆...
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