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 l...
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.
微信公众号:shenshike-HK (心是主人身是客) ====== 《纯真年代》(The age of innocence),伊迪丝.华顿(Edith Wharton)著。不久前看了电影,回味无穷。某对西洋文化向不感冒的看了此片,也咂吧着嘴说:第一次体会到名著的魅力。春节在折价书店惊见有这本书售,赶紧买下,三两...
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The Age of Innocence 无论是书还是电影,常年都列于各自的TOP TEN列表的NO.1。 即使之后感动的文字或画面仍时有,纯真年代所带来的触动和共鸣,却耿耿于怀地存于血液之中。 乃至成为人生的一部分。 一直在想,以怎样的一种文体,怎样的一种姿态,怎样一种叙述语气,或是在怎样...
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When first read the topic ,not only was I srounded by happiness and warmth ,but it also call back my sweet memory of childhood,However, The first chapter strucked me , thoses who lived in 1970s of American was a palce where decayed soc...
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0 有用 Croyez. 2012-07-28 19:00:59
"But she was trained to conceal imaginary wounds under a Spartan smile." 纯真面具下的心机。
0 有用 Annieangel 2012-07-03 20:52:48
读到最后一章一半被戳点狂哭不止。酝酿一下情绪写个书评。
0 有用 克劳德小生一朵 2011-01-27 09:25:32
Elegant but old-fashioned, I mean the idea. Really pity for those who don't dare to pursuit their true love and are sunk with the "social code".
0 有用 rachelsunny 2007-11-22 12:24:14
my favor
0 有用 魔女下午茶 2011-12-23 15:36:27
我的最爱