书名：The House of Mirth 欢乐之家
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1230L
作者：Edith Wharton
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2015
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451474308
商品尺寸：10.6x 2.3x 17.5 cm
包装：简装
页数：368 （以实物为准）

The House of Mirth《欢乐之家》是美国女作家伊迪丝·华顿的成名代表作，自1905年出版以来魅力经久不衰。小说一问世就在当时的《纽约时报》引起很大反响，被称之为“一部具有非凡震撼力的小说”（a novel of remarkable power）。1998年入选“20世纪一百部伟大的英文小说”，2000年被搬上银幕。
该小说之所以经久不衰，是因为它推陈出新地继承了英美文学的现实主义传统，巧妙地融合了法国文学的唯美主义追求，并对新旧世纪之交的社会意识和存在作出了前期现代主义的艺术反思。小说的艺术成就得益于复杂的多元视角和对自我身份的深度心理探索，其中既可见奥斯丁、艾略特、哈代小说的风采，也有福楼拜、司汤达、左拉、乔治·桑作品的韵味；更有詹姆斯、德莱塞、菲茨杰拉尔德、刘易斯作品的氛围，尤为重要的是，小说从非女权主义的女性视角探讨了易卜生的《玩偶之家》郑重提出却没有回答的问题：娜拉出走以后结果如何？因而具有超越种族、阶级、性别和国别的普遍意义。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Anna Quindlen作序，Michael Gorra后记。内容完整无删减，书本轻巧便携。

“20世纪没有哪本小说，能像伊迪丝·华顿的《欢乐之家》那样直接地提出女性与婚姻方面的问题。也没有哪部小说里的人物，能像美貌、惹人遐思、命运多舛的莉莉·芭特那样令读者倾心关注。”——卡罗尔·J·辛格里
“在伊迪丝·华顿的首部伟大的小说《欢乐之家》中，女主角莉莉·芭特出场时已29岁……讲述女人在30岁之后的历史，是华顿作为一位展望20世纪的作家，所面对的挑战之一。”——美国知名女权主义学者伊莱恩·肖沃尔特

Edith Wharton’s classic novel,The House of Mirth,is a brillaint exposé of the pretense and greed of fashionable New York Society.

InThe House of Mirth, which helped to establish Edith Wharton’s literary reputation, she honed her acerbic style and discovered her defining subject: the fashionable New York society in which she had been raised and that held the power to debase both people and ideals. In this devastatingly accurate and finely wrought tale, Lily Bart, the poor relation of a wealthy woman, is beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to the moneyed world of luxury and grace. But her good taste and moral sensibility render her unfit for survival in a vulgar society whose glittering social edifice is based on a foundation of pure greed. A brilliant portrayal of both human frailty and nobility, and a bitter attack on false social values,The House of Mirthhas been hailed by Louis Auchincloss as “uniquely authentic among American novels of manners.”

With an Introduction by Anna Quindlen and an Afterword by Michael Gorra

《欢乐之家》讲述的故事发生在20世纪初的纽约，一个由男人支配一切的时代，软弱的女人要想拥有财富和地位只能依靠她的男人，而个性独立，敢于同社会抗争的女人只会被视为异类。身在上流社会莉莉·巴特小姐清楚的知道这一点，因此她只得将骨子中的叛逆深深的掩藏起来，以痛苦的假面示人。处世的精明圆滑使她活跃在交际场上，并成为众多名流竞相追逐的对象。然而岁月如梭，莉莉知道自己的青春无多，于是未经慎重思考便嫁给了一名富有的商人。她再也不必挖空心思去维护自己的金钱和地位了，但她也因此失去了同样宝贵的爱情。终于有一天，莉莉无法抑制激荡在心底的情感，不顾一切的来到深爱的人——谢尔顿身边……莉莉一时的放纵使她走上了堕落的不归之路。当她惊醒的一刻才发现自己已失去了一切。
From the esteemed author ofThe Age of Innocence—a black comedy about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. Lily Bart’s quest to find a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of the rich comes to a scandalous end when she is accused of being a wealthy man’s mistress.

伊迪丝·华顿（Edith Wharton）1862年出生于纽约一个富贵之家，幼年随父母旅居欧洲，11岁时回到美国。她在家庭教师指导下接受教育，自幼受欧洲文化的濡染。伊迪丝少年时代便酷爱文学，在父亲的图书室里阅读了大量古典文学名著，很早就开始写诗，以后又练习写短篇小说。华顿于19世纪90年代起以创作短篇小说为开端，正式开始了写作生涯，在世纪之交又涉足长篇小说的写作。1905年，小说《欢乐之家》出版后，立即引起文坛瞩目，该书曾位于畅销书排行榜之首长达4个月之久。1920年出版的《纯真年代》被许多评论家视为华顿的优秀作品，她因此赢得了1921年的普利策小说奖。华顿是第一位荣膺这个奖项的女性作家。她一生笔耕不辍，堪称高产。主要作品还有：《伊坦·弗洛美》《暗礁》《乡村习俗》《夏天》《月亮的隐现》。
Edith Jones Wharton(1862–1937) was born in New York City into a family of merchants, bankers, and lawyers. She was educated privately by tutors and governesses. In 1885, she married Edward Wharton of Boston; the couple lived in New York, Newport, Lenox, and Paris until their divorce in 1913, when Wharton settled permanently in Paris. During World War I, Wharton was active in relief work in France, and in 1915, she was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor for her service. Edith Wharton’s earliest stories were published inScribner’s Magazine, but she did not include these in her first collection of short stories, titledThe Greater Inclination(1899). Her most famous novels includeThe House of Mirth(1905),Ethan Fromme(1911), the Pulitzer Prize winnerThe Age of Innocence(1920),The Children(1928),Hudson River Bracketed(1929), andThe Gods Arrive(1932). Wharton also wrote, in addition to her novels and short stories, her autobiography,A Backward Glance(1934). She died at her villa near Paris.

Anna Quindlenis theNew York Timesbestselling author of several novels, includingObject Lessons, Black and Blue, One True Thing,andStill Life with Bread Crumbs.A longtime columnist for theNew York Times, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, she has also published memoirs and commentary such asLots of Candles, Plenty of Cake,and several books for children.

Michael Gorrais a professor of English at Smith College. Among his acclaimed books arePortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece(a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) andThe English Novel at Mid-Century. His essays and reviews have been published in theNew York Times Book Review,theAtlantic,theNew York Review of Books,theTimes Literary Supplement,and theHudson Review, and he has won a National Book Critics Circle award for reviewing.

CHAPTER 1
SELDEN PAUSED in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.
It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season; but her desultory air perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the platform or the street, and wearing an air of irresolution which might, as he surmised, be the mask of a very definite purpose. It struck him at once that she was waiting for someone, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions.
An impulse of curiosity made him turn out of his direct line to the door, and stroll past her. He knew that if she did not wish to be seen she would contrive to elude him; and it amused him to think of putting her skill to the test.
“Mr. Selden—what goodluck!”
She came forward smiling, eager almost, in her resolve to intercept him. One or two persons, in brushing past them, lingered to look; for Miss Bart was a figure to arrest even the suburban traveller rushing to his last train.
Selden had never seen her more radiant. Her vivid head, relieved against the dull tints of the crowd, made her more conspicuous than in a ball-room, and under her dark hat and veil she regained the girlish smoothness, the purity of tint, that she was beginning to lose after eleven years of late hours and indefatigable dancing. Was it really eleven years, Selden found himself wondering, and had she indeed reached the nine-and-twentieth birthday with which her rivals credited her?
“What luck!” she repeated. “How nice of you to come to my rescue!”
He responded joyfully that to do so was his mission in life, and asked what form the rescue was to take.
“Oh, almost any–even to sitting on a bench and talking to me. One sits out a cotillion–why not sit out a train? It isn’t a bit hotter here than in Mrs. Van Osburgh’s conservatory–and some of the women are not a bit uglier.”
She broke off, laughing, to explain that she had come up to town from Tuxedo, on her way to the Gus Trenors’ at Bellomont, and had missed the three-fifteen train to Rhinebeck.
“And there isn’t another till half-past five.” She consulted the little jeweled watch among her laces.”