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適讀人群 :NA--NA Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history.
內容簡介
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.
作者簡介
The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage. But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster. She suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. In spite of the strain of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889.
Her first published book was a guide to interior decorating, but this was followed by several novels and story collections. They were written while the Whartons lived in Newport and New York, traveled in Europe, and built their grand home, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. In Europe, she met Henry James, who became her good friend, traveling companion, and the sternest but most careful critic of her fiction.
The House of Mirth (1905) was both a resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was
Ethan Frome (1911). In 1913 the Whartons were divorced, and Edith took up permanent residence in France. Her subject, however, remained America, especially the moneyed New York of her youth. Her great satiric novel,
The Custom of the Country was published in 1913 and
The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
In her later years, she enjoyed the admiration of a new generation of writers, including Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In all, she wrote some thirty books, including an autobiography.
A Backwards Glance (1934). She died at her villa near Paris in 1937.,,
The Age of Innocence[純真年代] [平裝] [NA--NA] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式
The Age of Innocence[純真年代] [平裝] [NA--NA] 下載 mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 格式 2025
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如果說讀書隻是文藝男青年和文藝女青年互相哄騙的勾當,那麼,看看日常生活中,梅和阿切爾的品味怎樣迥異:“(梅)高高興興地容忍韋蘭傢(梅娘傢)客廳裏的紫緞子與黃栽絨,以及裏麵的膺品鑲木桌與時新的薩剋森藍鍍金玻璃框。他找不齣任閤理由推測她會要求自己的住宅有任何的不同;唯一的安慰是她很可能讓他按自己的愛好佈置他的書房……”紫緞子、黃栽絨、薩剋森藍鍍金,這是什麼色調?阿切爾的書房雖然按他的愛好佈置瞭,然而有一天,他發現他的“圖書室就像一張陌生麵孔裝齣一副彬彬有禮的鬼臉,他發現它被冷酷地“整頓”過,布置過瞭……”
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原版書,很輕巧適閤攜帶,蠻喜歡的。慢慢看。
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非常適閤.質量還可以.
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寶貝很好,物流也很快,滿意!
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包裝嚴實,物流迅速,總體給滿分。
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很好很贊
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如果說讀書隻是文藝男青年和文藝女青年互相哄騙的勾當,那麼,看看日常生活中,梅和阿切爾的品味怎樣迥異:“(梅)高高興興地容忍韋蘭傢(梅娘傢)客廳裏的紫緞子與黃栽絨,以及裏麵的膺品鑲木桌與時新的薩剋森藍鍍金玻璃框。他找不齣任閤理由推測她會要求自己的住宅有任何的不同;唯一的安慰是她很可能讓他按自己的愛好佈置他的書房……”紫緞子、黃栽絨、薩剋森藍鍍金,這是什麼色調?阿切爾的書房雖然按他的愛好佈置瞭,然而有一天,他發現他的“圖書室就像一張陌生麵孔裝齣一副彬彬有禮的鬼臉,他發現它被冷酷地“整頓”過,布置過瞭……”
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而埃倫的興趣又怎樣呢?“她的客廳裏(一般認為最不宜放書的地方)四處散亂的書籍雖然主要是小說作品,但像保羅.布爾熱、休斯曼及龔古爾兄弟這些新名字都曾引起阿切爾的興趣。”隻不過聊聊數語,便交待齣埃倫不光在閱讀上和阿切爾誌趣相投,在思想上,還能影響到阿切爾。
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