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作 者：Edith Wharton 著 著
出 版 社：Dutton/Sig
出版时间：2000-2-1
I S B N： 9780451527561 </td></tr><tr><td width="14%" class
| "the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but theheart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns ecclesiastes 7:4,and so does the novel by edith wharton that takes its title fromthis call to heed. new york at the turn of the century was a timeof opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. but forthose who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with thewhirlwind, like wharton's charming lily bart, it was something elsealtogether: a gilded cage rather than the gilded age. one of wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in thelibrary of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor lawrence selden,indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryadsubdued to the conventions of the drawing room." indeed, hereinlies lily's problem. she has, we're told, "been brought up to beornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillaryrole requires. by today's standards she would be nothing more thana mild rebel, but in the era into which wharton drops herunmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerousassaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renderslily persona non grata. her own ambivalence about her positionserves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on theverge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment,unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as shecalls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls. |
| Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862,during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first shortstory in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination,in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her firstnovel, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902.The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, publishedin 1905. She died in 1937. --This text refers to the Paperbackedition. |
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