Jane Austen’s last completed novel, Persuasion is a delightful social satire of England’s landed gentry and a moving tale of lovers separated by class distinctions. After years apart, unmarried Anne Elliot, the heroine Jane Austen called “almost too good for me,” encounters the dashing naval officer others persuaded her to reject, as he now courts the rash and younger Louisa ...
Jane Austen’s last completed novel, Persuasion is a delightful social satire of England’s landed gentry and a moving tale of lovers separated by class distinctions. After years apart, unmarried Anne Elliot, the heroine Jane Austen called “almost too good for me,” encounters the dashing naval officer others persuaded her to reject, as he now courts the rash and younger Louisa Musgrove. Superbly drawn, these characters and those of Anne’s prideful father, Sir Walter, the scheming Mrs. Clay, and the duplicitous William Elliot, heir to Kellynch Hall, become luminously alive—so much so that the poet Tennyson, visiting historic Lyme Regis, where a pivotal scene occurs, exclaimed: “Don’t talk to me of the Duke of Monmouth. Show me the exact spot where Louisa Musgrove fell!”
Tender, almost grave, Persuasion offers a glimpse into Jane Austen’s own heart while it magnificently displays the full maturity of her literary power.
[S]o that Mrs Ramsay looked from one to the other and said, speaking to Prue in her own mind, You will be as happy as she is one of these days. You will be much happier, she added, because you are my daughter, she meant; her own daughter must be happier than other people's daughters. (查看原文)
Of all the family, Mary was probably the one most immediately gratified by the circumstance. It was creditable to have a sister married, and she might flatter herself with having been greatly instrumental to the connexion . . . and as her own sisters must be better than her husband's sisters, it was very agreeable that Captain Wentworth should be a richer man than either Captain Benwick or Charles Hayter. (查看原文)
The competition between Captain Wentworth and Mr Elliot was unfair from the beginning, and became even more unfair when the author decided to put cunning in the latter's nature.
今天我收到了新订的阿加莎.克里斯蒂（阿婆）化名Mary Westmacott的非侦探作品集。第一篇叫Absent in the Spring。不知道如何翻译，春日离意？还是春日迟迟？翻开来读了几行，便仿佛挂上ipod，任一道类乎奥黛丽.赫本的柔暖女声轻抚耳膜，静静为我念 书，不是别的，正是简.奥斯丁...
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简·奥斯汀 作者
小小风也
上海译文出版社1997版
萨缪
上海译文出版社2010版
默墨--momo
上海译文出版社1997版
0 有用 Yijun 2013-08-01 11:58:43
2013/7/31 Finished at last; guilty as charged.
0 有用 闪电丸子 2013-05-29 06:43:16
三星不够，四星太多
0 有用 sundew 2006-09-08 00:03:44
天，我不明白我干吗要把时间花在这样一本书上。
0 有用 郁柠 2007-10-19 11:46:37
果然比P&P吃力。。重读重读~
0 有用 francesca 2014-06-22 19:30:10
The competition between Captain Wentworth and Mr Elliot was unfair from the beginning, and became even more unfair when the author decided to put cunning in the latter's nature.