Age of Innocence

作者:Wharton, Edith

页数:320

出版时间:2010-7

价格:28.00元

isbn号码:9780007368648

图书标签:英文原版純真年代EdithWharton纯真年代AmericanLiterature美国纽约小说

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I want -- I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -- categories like that -- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.' Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, his attachment guarantees his place in this rigid world of the elite. However, the arrival of May's cousin, the exotic and beautiful European Countess Olenska throws Newland's life upside down. A divorcee, Olenska is ostracised by those around her, yet Newland is fiercely drawn to her wit, determination and willingness to flout convention. With the Countess, Newland is freed from the limitations that surround him and truly begins to 'feel' for the first time. Wharton's subtle expose of the manners and etiquette of 1870s New York society is both comedic, subtle, satirical and cynical in style and paints an evocative picture of a man torn between his passion and his obligation.

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After all, the innocent May is never innocent, nor is the age of innocence. 这次合上书时不仅有终于读完了的舒畅感，还勾起了两三年前美国文学课的全部回忆????

亦舒有部小说和这个故事情节一模一样！！！！女的已经订婚，美丽又桀骜不驯的落魄的妹妹出现，女的未婚夫几经摇摆，还是遵守承诺结了婚。最后，还是离婚了。

After all, the innocent May is never innocent, nor is the age of innocence. 这次合上书时不仅有终于读完了的舒畅感，还勾起了两三年前美国文学课的全部回忆????

亦舒有部小说和这个故事情节一模一样！！！！女的已经订婚，美丽又桀骜不驯的落魄的妹妹出现，女的未婚夫几经摇摆，还是遵守承诺结了婚。最后，还是离婚了。

Second book killed it for me. I appreciate the building up of the sexual tension in the first book, yet the second one drags egregiously. The resolution does not justify itself. What bathos. The time lapse felt soulless and vapid. Anticlimactic as hell