Persuasion, Jane Austen's last finished novel, is a brilliant satire and evocation of polite society, full of sharp perceptions on people and personal relations, especially love, and a celebration of the finer values in life.
Anne Elliot, at the age of nineteen, falls in love with Frederick Wentworth, a young man with no connections and only himself to recommend him. Persuaded ...
Persuasion, Jane Austen's last finished novel, is a brilliant satire and evocation of polite society, full of sharp perceptions on people and personal relations, especially love, and a celebration of the finer values in life.
Anne Elliot, at the age of nineteen, falls in love with Frederick Wentworth, a young man with no connections and only himself to recommend him. Persuaded by her great friend Lady Russell to break off their engagement Anne has ample opportunity to regret her decision.
Some years later, her father Sir Walter Elliot finds himself financially embarrassed and is forced to let the family home, Kellynch-hall. The new tenants prove to be Admiral and Mrs. Croft, brother-in-law and sister to Wentworth, who has prospered and is now a captain. Although he and Anne are thrown into each other's company he still feels bitterness at her rejection. He becomes entangled with Louisa Musgrove while Anne receives the attentions of William Elliot, her cousin. Once again it seems as though happiness is about to elude them...
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach.
You pirece my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that i am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an ealier death. I have loved none but you.
Unjust i may have been,weak and resentful i have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan.——Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could i have read your feelings, as i think you must have penetrated mine.
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今天我收到了新订的阿加莎.克里斯蒂(阿婆)化名Mary Westmacott的非侦探作品集。第一篇叫Absent in the Spring。不知道如何翻译,春日离意?还是春日迟迟?翻开来读了几行,便仿佛挂上ipod,任一道类乎奥黛丽.赫本的柔暖女声轻抚耳膜,静静为我念 书,不是别的,正是简.奥斯丁...
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0 有用 南村美惠 2013-04-10 06:44:20
对简奥斯汀的过分解读简直就是对言情小说的最大侮辱。
0 有用 闻人林 2008-09-19 13:49:20
无比喜欢Anne。上校那封信可以看哭我。