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适读人群 :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.
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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.
作者简介
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[纯真年代] [平装] [NA--NA] 下载 mobi epub pdf txt 电子书 格式
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还没来得及拜读,先囤货状态中。。。。
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很好,很实在! 京东买东西放心!
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很喜欢的一本书。纸张略差,发黑,很轻。纸箱包装,对书保护比较好。
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The Age of Innocence[纯真年代]
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《纯真年代》(The age of innocence),伊迪絲.华顿(Edith Wharton)著。不久前看了電影,回味無穷。某對西洋文化向不感冒的看了此片,也咂吧著嘴說:第一次體會到名著的魅力。春節在折價書店惊見有這本書售,赶緊買下,三二天看完。小說和電影的區別不大,電影幾乎嚴格地按照小說情節、铺排進行。當然,電影會失掉一些精細的地方,小說似對電影的補充說明,而電影則是小說的立體再現。所以,小說和電影都應該看,相得益彰。
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The Age of Innocence[纯真年代]
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好。
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如果說讀書只是文藝男青年和文藝女青年互相哄騙的勾當,那么,看看日常生活中,梅和阿切尔的品味怎樣迥异:“(梅)高高興興地容忍韋蘭家(梅娘家)客廳里的紫緞子與黃栽绒,以及里面的膺品鑲木桌與時新的薩克森蓝鍍金玻璃框。他找不出任合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、黃栽绒、薩克森蓝鍍金,這是什么色調?阿切尔的書房雖然按他的愛好佈置了,然而有一天,他發現他的“圖書室就像一張陌生面孔裝出一副彬彬有禮的鬼臉,他發現它被冷酷地“整頓”過,布置過了……”
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很好的原版书。娃儿自己选的
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