Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly resear...
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and meticulous evocation of the manners and style of the period, has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920. In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction - it won the Pulitzer Prize and it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author.
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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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Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of a duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites. 真爱与婚姻，第一步就错了，步步错，真是悲哀。
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Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of a duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen. He glanced about him at the unpruned garden, the tumble-down house, and the oak-grove under which the dusk was gathering. It had seemed so exactly the place in which he ought to have found Madame Olenska; and she was far away...
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His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen. He glanced about him at the unpruned garden, the tumble-down house, and the oak-grove under which the dusk was gathering. It had seemed so exactly the place in which he ought to have found Madame Olenska; and she was far away, and even the pink sunshade was not hers...引自第192页
Archer felt that at any cost he must keep her beside him, must make her give him the rest of her evening. Ignoring her question, he continued to lean against the chimney-piece, his eyes fixed on the hand in which she held her gloves and fan, as if watching to see if he had the power to make her drop them.
2020-06-05 01:14:56
Archer felt that at any cost he must keep her beside him, must make her give him the rest of her evening. Ignoring her question, he continued to lean against the chimney-piece, his eyes fixed on the hand in which she held her gloves and fan, as if watching to see if he had the power to make her drop them.引自第144页
since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world requited that the German text of French opera sung by Swedish artist should be translated into Italian for the clear understanding of English-speaking audiences. 好讽刺
2018-06-12 18:56:28
since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world requited that the German text of French opera sung by Swedish artist should be translated into Italian for the clear understanding of English-speaking audiences. 引自 Chapter ONE
...and he suspected, in the depths of her innocently gazing soul, a glow of feeling that it would be a joy to waken. But when he had gone the brief round of her he returned discouraged by the thought that all this frankness and innocence were only an artificial product. Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent, it was full of the twists and defenses of an instinctive guile. And he felt...
2012-12-20 13:47:46
...and he suspected, in the depths of her innocently gazing soul, a glow of feeling that it would be a joy to waken. But when he had gone the brief round of her he returned discouraged by the thought that all this frankness and innocence were only an artificial product. Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent, it was full of the twists and defenses of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of fictitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.引自 Chapter 6
All these frankness and innocence were only an artificial product. Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent, it was full of the twists and defenses of an instinctive guile. 人性
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All these frankness and innocence were only an artificial product. Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent, it was full of the twists and defenses of an instinctive guile. 引自 Chapter 6
As she sat thus, the lamplight full on her clear brow, he said to himself with a secret dismay that he would always know the thoughts behind it, that never, in all the years to come, would she surprise him by an unexpected mood, by a new idea, a weakness, a cruelty or an emotion. She had spent her poetry and romance on their short courting: the function was exhausted because the need was past. ...
2020-06-12 00:59:24
As she sat thus, the lamplight full on her clear brow, he said to himself with a secret dismay that he would always know the thoughts behind it, that never, in all the years to come, would she surprise him by an unexpected mood, by a new idea, a weakness, a cruelty or an emotion. She had spent her poetry and romance on their short courting: the function was exhausted because the need was past. Now she was simply ripening into a copy of her mother, and mysteriously, by the very process, trying to turn him into a Mr. Welland.引自第238页
He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions. If May had spoken out her grievances (he suspected her of many) he might have laughed them away; but she was trained to conceal imaginary wounds under a Spartan smile.
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He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions. If May had spoken out her grievances (he suspected her of many) he might have laughed them away; but she was trained to conceal imaginary wounds under a Spartan smile. 引自第237页
The snow was over, and a tingling wind had sprung up, that lashed his face as he stood gazing. Suddenly he felt something stiff and cold on his lashes, and perceived that he had been crying, and that the wind had frozen his tears.
2020-06-12 00:27:09
The snow was over, and a tingling wind had sprung up, that lashed his face as he stood gazing. Suddenly he felt something stiff and cold on his lashes, and perceived that he had been crying, and that the wind had frozen his tears.
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She drew a deep sigh that ended in another laugh. "Oh, my dear -- where is that country? Have you ever been there?" she asked; and as he remained sullenly dumb she went on: "I know so many who've tried to find it; and believe me, they all got out by mistake at wayside stations: at places like Boulogue, or Pisa, or Monte Carlo -- and it wasn't at all different from the old world they'd left, but...
2020-06-12 00:22:58
She drew a deep sigh that ended in another laugh. "Oh, my dear -- where is that country? Have you ever been there?" she asked; and as he remained sullenly dumb she went on: "I know so many who've tried to find it; and believe me, they all got out by mistake at wayside stations: at places like Boulogue, or Pisa, or Monte Carlo -- and it wasn't at all different from the old world they'd left, but only rather smaller and dingier and more promiscuous."引自第235页
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His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen. He glanced about him at the unpruned garden, the tumble-down house, and the oak-grove under which the dusk was gathering. It had seemed so exactly the place in which he ought to have found Madame Olenska; and she was far away...
1 有用 梅文女王殿下 2014-04-12 12:26:37
2014.4.12 读完几天了，不知如何才能划上句号。Newland一生的沉重和求之不得，被Dallas玩笑地轻轻地说了出来... 看罢，眼泪默默地浮上来。如果我的所有故事，你有兴趣听完，那么或许，放下与否已经不重要了。
1 有用 Amber 2017-09-08 01:52:53
中文翻译“纯真年代”真的有失偏颇
1 有用 鱼更 2015-07-06 15:54:12
Suffocating sadness in quiet despair - ”she had become the composite vision of all that he had missed." 非常绝望，非常动人。
19 有用 景页再也不会 2012-10-16 10:07:18
1. 美国从最保守走向最无顾忌过程的一个横切面。2. 自由是女人可以追寻的东西。3. 真实与虚幻的位置并非绝对，穷尽一生的倒置亦无不可。4. 爱情不是必需品，执着让人偏狭。5. 不如不见。
0 有用 拉赫玛尼诺妇 2017-08-09 17:05:34
beautiful and soft
0 有用 大润发🦈 2022-07-23 01:12:26
女人永远不可能像男人一样自由，就算夫家出事了还不能与之解绑。好在女人可以选择洒脱放手，努力让自己的生活变得更丰富。天真的是Newland，他以为May 不知道他的精神出轨，他以为Ellen跟他一样守着婚姻浑浑噩噩过日子，但他不知道May早就察觉了而Ellen早已经 move on 了。
0 有用 绝望眉毛子 2022-05-24 16:30:50
This age may not be fond of a three-way aristocratic love affair anymore
0 有用 Decem 2022-05-07 22:55:45
Archer和艾伦的爱情像是他无聊琐碎生命中的光 “假如他能把她脚踏的那块地面连同天海相拥的那段空间印在他的脑子里，那么，剩下的那部分世界也许就显得不那么空虚了”，可他为了现实放弃了，进入了坟墓般无聊的婚姻，那种本来想教妻子一点文学但是发现妻子根本学不进去还不如不说那里真的过于真实，我觉得最后一章真的无比动人，加上了时间的维度就是不一样，男主人生也不能说不丰满，他做了他框架内能做的善事，也学会了爱... Archer和艾伦的爱情像是他无聊琐碎生命中的光 “假如他能把她脚踏的那块地面连同天海相拥的那段空间印在他的脑子里，那么，剩下的那部分世界也许就显得不那么空虚了”，可他为了现实放弃了，进入了坟墓般无聊的婚姻，那种本来想教妻子一点文学但是发现妻子根本学不进去还不如不说那里真的过于真实，我觉得最后一章真的无比动人，加上了时间的维度就是不一样，男主人生也不能说不丰满，他做了他框架内能做的善事，也学会了爱妻子，但是还是心酸，因为他失去了本来或许可以拥有的有趣的生活，而且他的的妥协就是时代的悲剧在新一代人这里再也不需要了，世界在变得更好更包容，但是男主享受不到了，他只能坐在曾经的爱人门前，看着自己的儿子进去，自己在外追忆一下当年，记忆中一切还是最好的样子，然后孤身离开 (展开)
0 有用 Br.G 2022-04-24 21:32:02
What an ending… the lost, unattainable “love” is the lost era itself…
0 有用 lucky__lh 2022-04-03 13:35:46
不是很喜欢这一部小说