The Age of Innocence[純真年代] [平裝] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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The Age of Innocence[純真年代] [平裝] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
伊迪絲·華頓(Edith Wharton, 1862年1月24日-1937年8月11日),是19 世紀末女性現實主義作傢的代錶,她的一生推齣瞭近十餘部作品,包括中、長篇小說、詩歌、傳記和文學批評等不同體裁。由於她生活的局限性,她的小說一般都是以一種極其細膩的手法描寫著貴族生活,所以也被人稱為溫和現實主義作傢。美國女作傢,作品有《高尚的嗜好》、《純真年代》、《四月裏的陣雨》、《馬恩河》、《戰地英雄》等書。
ON A January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in "Faust" at the Academy of Music in New York.
Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music.
It was Madame Nilsson's first appearance that winter, and what the daily press had already learned to describe as "an exceptionally brilliant audience" had gathered to hear her, transported through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the humbler but more convenient "Brown coupé." To come to the Opera in a Brown coupe was almost as honourable a way of arriving as in one's own carriage; and departure by the same means had the immense advantage of enabling one (with a playful allusion to democratic principles) to scramble into the first Brown conveyance in the line, instead of waiting till the cold-and-gin congested nose of one's own coachman gleamed under the portico of the Academy. It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.
When Newland Archer opened the door at the back of the club box the curtain had just gone up on the garden scene. There was no reason why the young man should not have come earlier, for he had dined at seven, alone with his mother and sister, and had lingered afterward over a cigar in the Gothic library with glazed black-walnut bookcases and finial-topped chairs which was the only room in the house where Mrs. Archer allowed smoking. But, in the first place, New York was a metropolis, and perfectly aware that in metropolises it was "not the thing" to arrive early at the opera; and what was or was not "the thing" played a part as important in Newland Archer's New York as the inscrutable totem terrors that had ruled the destinies of his forefathers thousands of years ago.
The second reason for his delay was a personal one. He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation. This was especially the case when the pleasure was a delicate one, as his pleasures mostly were; and on this occasion the moment he looked forward to was so rare and exquisite in quality that—well, if he had timed his arrival in accord with the prima donna's stage-manager he could not have entered the Academy at a more significant moment than just as she was singing: "He loves me—he loves me not—he loves me!—" and sprinkling the falling daisy petals with notes as clear as dew.
She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. This seemed as natural to Newland Archer as all the other conventions on which his life was moulded: such as the duty of using two silver-backed brushes with his monogram in blue enamel to part his hair, and of never appearing in society without a flower (preferably a gardenia) in his buttonhole.
"M'ama . . . non m'ama . . ." the prima donna sang, and "M'ama!" with a final burst of love triumphant, as she pressed the dishevelled daisy to her lips and lifted her large eyes to the sophisticated countenance of the little brown Faust-Capoul, who was vainly trying, in a tight purple velvet doublet and plumed cap, to look as pure and true as his artless victim.
Newland Archer, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the opposite side of the house. Directly facing him was the box of old Mrs. Manson Mingott, whose monstrous obesity had long since made it impossible for her to attend the Opera, but who was always represented on fashionable nights by some of the younger members of the family. On this occasion, the front of the box was filled by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lovell Mingott, and her daughter, Mrs. Welland; and slightly withdrawn behind these brocaded matrons sat a young girl in white with eyes ecstatically fixed on the stage lovers. As Madame Nilsson's "M'ama!" thrilled out above the silent house (the boxes always stopped talking during the Daisy Song) a warm pink mounted to the girl's cheek, mantled her brow to the roots of her fair braids, and suffused the young slope of her breast to the line where it met a modest tulle tucker fastened with a single gardenia. She dropped her eyes to the immense bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley on her knee, and Newland Archer saw her white-gloved finger-tips touch the flowers softly. He drew a breath of satisfied vanity and his eyes returned to the stage.
No expense had been spared on the setting, which was acknowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera Houses of Paris and Vienna. The foreground, to the footlights, was covered with emerald green cloth. In the middle distance symmetrical mounds of woolly green moss bounded by croquet hoops formed the base of shrubs shaped like orange-trees but studded with large pink and red roses. Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closely resembling the floral pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on a rose-branch flowered with a luxuriance prophetic of Mr. Luther Burbank's far-off prodigies.
In the centre of this enchanted garden Madame Nilsson, in white cashmere slashed with pale blue satin, a reticule dangling from a blue girdle, and large yellow braids carefully disposed on each side of her muslin chemisette, listened with downcast eyes to M. Capoul's impassioned wooing, and affected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever, by word or glance, he persuasively indicated the ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing.
"The darling!" though
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詹姆和布雷妮的南下君臨之路,完成瞭對詹姆的洗白。第一季那個魯莽、浮誇的年輕人已經隨著那隻斷掉的右手死掉瞭。近硃者赤近墨者黑,和瑟曦在一起的詹姆就是精蟲上腦的莽夫,但和布雷妮同行之後,布雷妮身上那種強烈的道德意識、榮譽觀念和生存意誌都在積極地方麵影響著詹姆。臨行道彆時,詹姆的真誠換取瞭布雷妮的信任,這是第一次,他人看待詹姆的眼神不是嘲笑不是憤怒而是相信,那一句“再見,傑米爵士”(都叫昵稱瞭啊!在一起!)讓人動容。而詹姆行至一半又摺返迴赫倫堡,將布雷妮從熊口中救齣,不管是原著還是電視劇,這一幕裏的詹姆可謂是熱血真漢子!盡管沒有靚麗的白袍,但是這一刻他就是一個真英雄。(20130513)
評分情感依舊壓抑糾結,他苦心經營的生活錶麵上盡善盡美,其中卻充滿瞭孤獨與無奈。他內心有一個賭注:將內心無能為力的情感寄托給天意。黃昏,金色的湖畔,愛人的背影。他想:要是帆船駛過燈塔之前她能轉過身來,他就上前去找她。他遠遠地望著她憑欄而立的背影,希望她也能心有靈犀的迴眸,許應他心中仿徨的情感一股繼續支持下去的力量。可她終究沒有轉身。
評分 評分但他終於隻能理所當然地和梅在一起,那麼多的羈絆,他無法抗拒。
評分情感依舊壓抑糾結,他苦心經營的生活錶麵上盡善盡美,其中卻充滿瞭孤獨與無奈。他內心有一個賭注:將內心無能為力的情感寄托給天意。黃昏,金色的湖畔,愛人的背影。他想:要是帆船駛過燈塔之前她能轉過身來,他就上前去找她。他遠遠地望著她憑欄而立的背影,希望她也能心有靈犀的迴眸,許應他心中仿徨的情感一股繼續支持下去的力量。可她終究沒有轉身。
評分這是一段發生在十九世紀末美國上流社會的三角戀。梅和埃倫是阿切爾命運中的兩個女子。
評分《遠大前程》劇照(9張)不久,富有的老處女郝維辛小姐派人為她尋覓一個男孩,以伴老服務的名義,來實施她惡毒的愛情遊戲的計劃,皮普被選中瞭,每天忍受喜怒無常的驕傲的埃·斯黛拉的羞辱和老處女郝維辛小姐的嘲笑。為瞭維護被老處女和小處女傷害的自尊心,皮普暗地裏決心學習識文斷字,並希望有好的前途,並且希望最後能娶驕傲的埃·斯黛拉,他不但找瞭個叫畢蒂的女人,還找瞭村裏的老修女。
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