纯真年代 (PEL)The Age of Innocence

基本信息

Series:The Penguin English Library

Format:Paperback / softback 336 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Classics

ISBN:9780241652688

Weight:252g

Dimensions:197 x 129 x 17 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

动人地描绘了十九世纪纽约上流社会中欲望与责任之间的斗争

纽兰·阿切尔是上流社会的一名年轻小伙子，他即将宣布与漂亮天真的少女梅·韦兰订婚，这时梅的表妹奥兰斯卡伯爵夫人加入了他们的圈子。伯爵夫人带着一股欧洲式的成熟气息和一丝丑闻，她离开了丈夫，宣称自己是独立的。

她悲伤的眼神、悲惨的世故和难以接近的气质吸引了敏感的纽兰，几乎违背了他们的意愿，他们之间产生了一种激情的纽带。但阿切尔的生活没有激情，社会站在梅一边，站在她所代表的一切一边，他发现自己陷入了爱情和责任之间的激烈冲突中。

A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high society

Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence.

Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.

作者简介

伊迪丝·华顿于 1862 年出生于纽约一个富裕的家庭，当时正值美国内战。她 23 岁结婚，随后在纽约、罗德岛和马萨诸塞州居住。《欢乐之家》可能是她知名的作品，于 1905 年问世，之后她又创作了《伊坦·弗洛美》、《乡村风俗》、《夏天》和《纯真年代》。华顿是首位获得普利策小说奖的女性。她于 1937 年去世。

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.