具体描述
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
作者简介
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. after his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother, in 1809 they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until May 1817, when she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on 18 July 1817. Jane Austen was extremely modest about her own genius, describing her work to her nephew, Edward, as ‘the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory, on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour’. As a girl she wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were published only after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1815). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.
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读《Persuasion》的过程,就像是在品味一杯陈年的普洱,初尝或许有些涩,但越往后越能品出其中的醇厚与回甘。这本书最吸引我的地方,莫过于它对人物心理的深度挖掘。主角安妮,她并非传统意义上的完美女性,她的经历充满了遗憾和妥协,但正是这些不完美,让她显得如此真实,如此 relatable。我能感受到她内心的纠结,那种对过去的执念与对未来的期盼之间的拉扯。而当她再次遇到曾经的爱人,那种久违的情感在现实的考量下,又有了新的解读。作者没有简单地描绘一个“灰姑娘式”的童话,而是将爱情置于复杂的社会背景和个人成长之中,使得整个故事更具深度和意义。
《Persuasion》是一本让我反复回味的佳作。它的语言风格与我以往读过的同类作品截然不同,没有过度的煽情,也没有刻意的戏剧化冲突,一切都显得那么自然而然。故事中的人物,无论主角还是配角,都栩栩如生,仿佛就生活在我们身边。我尤其喜欢作者对于社会阶层和家庭关系的描绘,那些细微之处,却能折射出那个时代的种种价值观和人情冷暖。安妮的坚韧和智慧,在面对家人的虚荣和势利时,显得尤为可贵。她不是一个反叛者,却用自己的方式,默默地坚守着内心的原则和对爱的渴望。
《Persuasion》给了我一种前所未有的阅读体验。它不像那些情节跌宕起伏的小说那样,一下子就能抓住读者的眼球,而是像一位知心的朋友,娓娓道来,逐渐渗透进读者的内心。我特别欣赏作者对情感的描绘,那种含蓄而又深沉的爱意,在反复的相遇和错过中,显得更加珍贵。安妮的经历,让我看到了女性在那个时代所面临的困境,以及她们如何在这种困境中,依然保持着尊严和力量。这本书没有直接说教,却在不动声色中,传递着关于爱情、成长和人生选择的深刻哲理。
这本《Persuasion》着实让我沉浸其中,仿佛置身于十九世纪的英国乡绅和贵族的世界。作者以一种细腻而又充满洞察力的笔触,描绘了主人公安妮·艾利特在经历了人生的重大转折后,内心的挣扎与成长。她的爱情故事,并非轰轰烈烈,而是如同细水长流般,在时间的沉淀和现实的磨砺中,逐渐显露出坚韧的光芒。我尤其欣赏作者对于安妮内心世界的刻画,那些欲言又止的情感,那些被压抑的渴望,都通过 subtle 的细节展现出来。她面对过去的悔意,面对家人的冷漠,面对社会的压力,都展现出一种独特的、不动声色的力量。
如果说《Persuasion》是一幅画,那么作者无疑是一位技艺精湛的画家,用细致的笔触描绘出生活的质感。我被安妮这个人物深深吸引,她的故事并非惊心动魄,却充满了动人心魄的力量。她曾因年轻的冲动而错过,但岁月的沉淀让她学会了审慎和坚守。在重新面对曾经的错过时,她没有选择沉沦,而是以一种更加成熟和理性的姿态去处理。这本书让我看到了,真正的“劝说”并非来自外界的压力,而是源于内心的成长和自我认知。
读起来很舒服,细腻、节制的幸福感,点到即止的嘲弄,也只能存在于这种温情脉脉的女性田园读本里吧。
The novel contains some marvelously revealing glimpses of rural life in the 19th century.
读完能更好滴理解《基本演绎法》的台词。Anne和Captain Wentworth的感情离我现在的世界一点都没有距离感。美好。需要多读几遍。
Anne Elliot 轻描淡写的那句”I will not allow books to prove any thing”,带着多少回肠荡气。
难道写论文的时候没看完整吗?至少这遍读完整了。