Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain.
"A woman of seven and twenty, " said Marianne, after pausing a moment, "can never hope to feel or inspire affection again, and if her home be uncomfortable, or her fortune small, I can suppose that she might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife. In his marrying such a woman therefore there would be nothing unsuitable. It would be a compact of convenience, and the world would be satisfied. In my eyes it would be no marriage at all, but that would be nothing. To me it would seem only a commercial exchange, in which each wished to be benefited at the expense of the other. " (查看原文)
Penguin Clothbound Classics(共113册),
这套丛书还有
《Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings》《Northanger Abbey》《Jude the Obscure》《The Mayor of Casterbridge》《Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3》
等
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It is a truth universally acknowledged ,that anyone existing in the world will be caught in an ineluctable dilemma, where you hesitate in the face of sense and sensibility. Actually, whenever l meets such crossroads, l naturally think of Jane Austen, an out...
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0 有用 前进小呵欠 2025-06-12 10:53:43 湖北
Feeling Marianne’s pain makes me cry. It’s very odd that writing can be that powerful, even though I am no longer young🥹
0 有用 刘喜根 2024-06-19 18:30:07 湖北
简奥斯汀,维多利亚时代的娃姐(但比娃姐更难看
0 有用 做自己 2024-03-05 09:54:52 黑龙江
看到Elinor照顾Marianne那里很感动,如果早一点看完Jane Austen的这本书就好了,目前她的每本书我都好爱
0 有用 刘煌旭 2020-01-16 17:40:50
不知算不算完满结局;一如既往好的人好到极致坏的人坏到极致
0 有用 禅茶一味 2011-05-08 23:44:59
Jane Austin的諷刺寫得太絕了!!!我笑得前仰後合。