Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.
As her usual focus on the description of the provincial aristocratic-bourgeois life of the late 18th-century England, the gentry families to be specific, Jane Austen writes Emma, with an ever more conspicuous and trenchant view, and in meticulous detai...
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Though I can not say that Emma disappoints me greatly, it makes me lose interest in Austin’s other novels. When first reading Austen’s Pride and Prejudice three years ago, I was favorably impressed by it, especially by the brave, intelligent and open-mind...
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好几年前别人送我的,疫情无聊了才拿出来读,虽然很多年前读过中文版了,但原文版的语言魅力还是翻译版无法企及的(翻译版也就只够读个情节吧)。在自己也写过小说的现在,再去读这种世界闻名的经典小说,感受是完全不一样的,她的隐喻和风趣,人物生动的刻画,在日常琐碎中缓缓铺开的叙事,还有长篇的篇幅整体的架构,真的引人入胜,在愉快阅读的过程中,也让人深受启发。这个企鹅丛书似乎只出这一本Emma,不然还想再把傲慢与... 好几年前别人送我的,疫情无聊了才拿出来读,虽然很多年前读过中文版了,但原文版的语言魅力还是翻译版无法企及的(翻译版也就只够读个情节吧)。在自己也写过小说的现在,再去读这种世界闻名的经典小说,感受是完全不一样的,她的隐喻和风趣,人物生动的刻画,在日常琐碎中缓缓铺开的叙事,还有长篇的篇幅整体的架构,真的引人入胜,在愉快阅读的过程中,也让人深受启发。这个企鹅丛书似乎只出这一本Emma,不然还想再把傲慢与偏见的原文也读了👍 (展开)