内容简介
With sure and subtle touch, Eliot paints a luminous and spacious landscape of life in a provincial town, interweaving her themes with a proliferation of characters: an innocent idealist; a self-defeated young doctor; a naive young woman; and a cold man, who "lives too much with the dead".
作者简介
Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion. When one of these friends married in 1843, Mary Ann took over from his wife the task of translating D.F. Strauss’s
The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1846), a work that had deep effect on English rationalism. After her father’s death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the
Westminster Review, the organ of the Radical party. In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker. Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another man, but had been unable to obtain a divorce. In a step daring for Victorian times, Mary Ann Evans began living openly with Lewes in 1854, in a union they both considered as sacred as a legal marriage and one that lasted until his death in 1878.
With Lewes’s encouragement, Mary Ann Evans wrote her first fictional work, “The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton,” for
Blackwood’s Magazine in 1857; it was followed by two more stories published under the pseudonym George Elliot–“George” because it was Lewes’s name and “Eliot” because, she said, it was good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word.” At the age of thirty-nine she used her memories of Warwickshire to write her first long novel,
Adam Bede (1859), a book that established her as the foremost woman novelist in her day. Then came
The Mill on the Floss (1860),
Silas Marner (1861), and
Romola (1863). Her masterpiece and one of the greatest English novels,
Middlemarch, was published in 1871-72. Her last work was
Daniel Deronda (1876). After Lewes’s death George Eliot married John Walter Cross. He was forty; she was sixty-one. Before her death on December 22, 1880, she had been recognized by her contemporaries as the greatest living writer of English fiction.
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精彩书评
"No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative."
--V. S. Pritchett
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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这外文原版书没有塑封,经常被弄得很脏,而且就用一个薄薄塑料袋装着,送来都不堪入目,又脏有磕碰啊。换了一次,也好不到哪里去!
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很好,给朋友买的,很喜欢
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还没有看完,单说书的品质,很不错。
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发货很快。书是红衣,包装简陋,还好质量不错,很厚,要读很长时间了。
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No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative.
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好厚的一本书,希望不要当摆设
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预订说得7-8周,五周半到货。人人文库的三本经典,值得等。
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好厚的一本书,希望不要当摆设
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很好