书名：Persuasion劝导
作者：Jane Austen

出版社名称：Alma Classics

出版时间：2016

语种：英语
ISBN：9781847495709

商品尺寸：12.8x 1.8x19.8cm

包装：平装
页数：240（以实物为准）

Persuasion《劝导》是英国女作家简•奥斯汀所创作的zui后一部小说。写于《爱玛》发表之后。由于这个时期作者的思想受到了当时同时期的浪漫主义作家拜伦，雪莱，济慈等人的影响，写作风格较早期的作品如《傲慢与偏见》和《理智与情感》有所变化。《理智与情感》中，作者趋于传递理智需战胜个人情感的理念；而在《劝导》当中，“过于理智”的弊端则被完完全全地展露无遗。两部作品相辅相成，脍炙人口，更曾被改编为电影和舞台剧，并被BBC改成电视剧，取得了不俗的反响。

推荐理由：

1.各大推荐书单榜上有名，值得文学爱好者收藏和研读；

2.与奥斯汀其他作品有所对比，人物、场景设置堪称完美；

3.该书创作背景为英国社会转变时期，读者可从独特的视角了解当时的社会情形。

Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work.Through her piercing social observation and subtly subversive style, Jane Austen drew from ordinary circumstances to produce extraordinary works of English literature. Known by many as a novelist who focuses on marriage plots and happy endings, Austen's works can more deeply be understood to be a study of the complex class and gender relations which underscored early-nineteenth century English middle-class society.

韶光正从安妮的身上消逝，风华正茂的时候，因为接受了他人的“劝导”，她终与意中人温特沃思上校分道扬镳。虽青春不在，又备受虚荣的父亲和姐姐的冷漠，但她的高贵仁慈却使她成为亲朋中最受欢迎的人。两人分手八年后再次相遇，上校不能冰释怨恨，违心追求他人；而安妮也险些接受伪君子堂兄的求婚。在因为家族事务而引发的一系列交往中，上校进一步发现安妮的无私与坚贞无人能比，而安妮也在一次次自我劝导中找回了爱的勇气。他们发现，重新团聚比第一次相爱更为幸福，于是，经受了考验的他们不再若即若离，开始尽情地回忆并表白。

该部小说基调严肃、语气沉静、情感忧郁，却仍不乏奥斯汀的大量反讽，深植于人物形象的刻画以及故事情节的发展之中。

Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes her to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future.

Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath and infused with its author’s trademark wit, Austen’s last completed novel, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women in the early nineteenth century.

Jane Austen简·奥斯汀（1775-1817），19世纪英国女性小说家。生于英国小乡镇史蒂文顿的一个牧师家庭，几乎从未接受过正规教育，但由于家庭文学空气熏陶而成为作家。其作品主要描绘她在狭小生活圈子里所熟悉的中产阶级的家庭生活，青年男女的恋爱婚姻及其心态，具有观察细致，人物刻画惟妙惟肖，评论尖刻等艺术特色。其一生共创作了六部小说，分别是《理智与情感》《傲慢与偏见》《曼斯菲尔德庄园》《爱玛》《诺桑觉寺》《劝导》。

Jane Austen began writing at a very early age, and went on to produce some of the greatest works of English literature, with Pride and Prejudice and Emma among her masterpieces. Her novels, brimming with wit and populated by unforgettable characters, serve as a trenchant satire on the pretensions and foibles of provincial society.