书名：Washington Square 华盛顿广场

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1030L
作者：Henry James亨利·詹姆斯
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451416773
商品尺寸：10.7 x 1.6 x 17 cm
包装：简装
页数：240
Washington Square《华盛顿广场》是美国作家亨利·詹姆斯创作的一部中篇小说。该书曾连载于《谷山杂志》和《哈普斯月刊》。该小说为一部悲喜剧，陈述了父女、情人之间的矛盾。据说该小说由真实事件启发而来。由于其结构清晰，行文优雅，且聚焦于家庭于婚姻关系，该小说常被评论家与简·奥斯丁的作品相提并论。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Mona Simpson写导言，Michael Cunningham写后记，内容完整无删减，书本轻巧便携。
Back when New York was still young, so was heiress Catherine Sloper. A simple, plain girl, she grew up in opulence with a disappointed father and a fluttery aunt in a grand house on Washington Square.
 
Enter Morris Townsend, a handsome charmer who assures Catherine he loves her for herself and not for her money. But Catherine’s revered father sees in Townsend what she cannot. Now, with her tearful aunt Penniman as his amusingly melodramatic ally, Townsend will present Catherine with the hardest choice of her young life.…
With a New Introduction and an Afterword by Michael Cunningham, Author of The Hours.
Review
“Every line, every paragraph, every chapter… is a fleet-footed light brigade, an engine of irony.”  — Cynthia Ozick

Washington Square《华盛顿广场》以曲折动人的爱情故事为题材，围绕着爱情与金钱展开了两种价值观念的斗争。女主人公凯瑟琳是个富家闺秀，因受到风度翩翩的财产猎取者汤森德的挑逗而陷入情网，无奈她的父亲老谋深算，坚决反对他们结婚。在爱情与父命的折磨中，凯瑟琳饱尝了父亲的冷酷无情，后又遭到了未婚夫无耻背叛，只落得在华盛顿广场一角的公寓内孤苦伶仃地度过凄凉的一生。

小说以十九世纪中叶纽约中上层社会的家庭生活为背景，围绕婚姻与金钱展开了两种道德观念的斗争，表现了无知与腐蚀的对抗这一詹姆斯作品的基本主题。

亨利·詹姆斯（Henry James，1843年4月15日－1916年2月28日），19世纪美国继霍桑、麦尔维尔之后伟大的小说家，也是美国乃至世界文学史上的大文豪。詹姆斯的主要作品是小说，此外也写了许多文学评论、游记、传记和剧本。他的小说常写美国人和欧洲人之间交往的问题；成人的罪恶如何影响并摧残了纯洁、聪慧的儿童；物质与精神之间的矛盾；艺术家的孤独，作家和艺术家的生活等。代表作有长篇小说：《一个美国人》《一位女士的画像》《鸽翼》《使节》和《金碗》等。他的创作对20世纪崛起的现代派及后现代派文学有着非常巨大的影响。

Son of the religious philosopher Henry James Sr. and brother of the psychologist and philosopher William James, Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York City and spent his early life in America; on and off he was taken to Europe, especially during the impressionable years from twelve to seventeen. After that he lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard, and, in 1864, began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines. Later, he visited Europe and began Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875, he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola and wrote The American. In 1876, he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Other famous works include The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels: The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1905, he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907). He also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into the war effort in 1914. In 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In January 1916, King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London, and his ashes were buried in the James family plot in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Michael Cunningham is the author of four novels: A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, and The Hours, which won the PEN Faulkner and Pulitzer prizes. His fiction has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review.
During a portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practiced in the city of New York a physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which, in the United States, has always been bestowed upon distinguished members of the medical profession. This profession in America has constantly been held in honor, and more successfully than elsewhere has put forward a claim to the epithet of “liberal.” In a country in which, to play a social part, you must either earn your income or make believe that you earn it, the healing art has appeared in a high degree to combine two recognized sources of credit. It belongs to the realm of the practical, which in the United States is a great recommendation; and it is touched by the light of science—a merit appreciated in a community in which the love of knowledge has not always been accompanied by leisure and opportunity.

It was an element in Doctor Sloper’s reputation that his learning and his skill were very evenly balanced; he was what you might call a scholarly doctor, and yet there was nothing abstract in his remedies—he always ordered you to take something. Though he was felt to be extremely thorough, he was not uncomfortably theoretic; and if he sometimes explained matters rather more minutely than might seem of use to the patient, he never went so far (like some practitioners one had heard of) as to trust to the explanation alone, but always left behind him an inscrutable prescription. There were some doctors that left the prescription without any explanation at all; and he did not belong to that class either, which was after all the most vulgar. It will be seen that I am describing a clever man; and this is really the reason why Doctor Sloper had become a local celebrity.

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