Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. after his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother, in 1809 they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until May 1817, when she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on 18 July 1817. Jane Austen was extremely modest about her own genius, describing her work to her nephew, Edward, as ‘the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory, on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour’. As a girl she wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were published only after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1815). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.
As her usual focus on the description of the provincial aristocratic-bourgeois life of the late 18th-century England, the gentry families to be specific, Jane Austen writes Emma, with an ever more conspicuous and trenchant view, and in meticulous detai...
评分购买于新加坡国立大学Central Forum Co-op,不知道写在这里合不合适,我个人感觉翻译版本基本上不如原版的好。
评分As her usual focus on the description of the provincial aristocratic-bourgeois life of the late 18th-century England, the gentry families to be specific, Jane Austen writes Emma, with an ever more conspicuous and trenchant view, and in meticulous detai...
评分这本小说简直让我欲罢不能!作者的笔触细腻得如同丝绸,将每一个人物都描绘得栩栩如生,仿佛他们就站在我眼前,用他们的喜怒哀乐牵动着我的心弦。故事的展开更是出人意料,每一次以为已经猜到了结局,转眼就被新的情节打得措手不及。我尤其喜欢作者对于人物内心世界的挖掘,那种微妙的情感变化,那些藏在心底的渴望和不安,都被刻画得淋漓尽致,让人感同身受。即使是在最平静的篇章里,也能感受到一股暗流涌动,预示着即将到来的风暴。这种叙事技巧高超到让人惊叹,我常常会因为一个不经意的细节而反复揣摩,然后恍然大悟。角色之间的互动更是火花四溅,每一个对话都充满了智慧和机锋,有时候是心照不宣的默契,有时候是暗藏玄机的试探,让人看得津津有味。我甚至会忍不住想象,如果我身处其中,会如何应对,又会做出怎样的选择。这本书不仅仅是一个故事,更像是一场关于人性的深刻探讨,它让我看到了人性的光辉与阴暗,复杂与矛盾,真的是一部值得反复品读的佳作。
评分这本书带给我的阅读体验,与其说是一次阅读,不如说是一次沉浸式的感官盛宴。作者在构建世界观方面展现出了惊人的想象力和创造力,每一个场景都仿佛被赋予了生命,无论是宏伟的宫殿,还是幽静的森林,亦或是繁华的市集,都描绘得细致入微,色彩斑斓,仿佛能闻到空气中的味道,听到身边的声音。我常常会因为对某个场景的喜爱而停下脚步,细细品味作者的文字,感受那种身临其境的震撼。人物的塑造同样功不可没,他们不是扁平的符号,而是有血有肉的个体,有着各自的成长轨迹,各自的困境与追求。我喜欢看到他们在命运的洪流中挣扎,在人生的十字路口徘徊,他们犯过的错误,获得的成长,都让我深思。特别是其中一位角色的转变,简直是一场精彩绝伦的蜕变,从最初的青涩迷茫,到后来的坚定与成熟,每一步都踩得如此真实,如此动人。这本书的节奏把握得也恰到好处,高潮迭起,张弛有度,让你在紧张刺激的氛围中,也能找到片刻的宁静与思考。
评分初读这本书,最先吸引我的是其独特的语言风格。作者的文字仿佛带有一种魔力,能够轻易地勾勒出鲜活的画面,营造出浓厚的氛围。我尤其欣赏作者在描绘人物内心世界时所展现出的深刻洞察力,那些细微的情感波动,那些难以言说的压抑与渴望,都被刻画得入木三分,让我能够感同身受,甚至在某些时刻,觉得书中角色就是我自己的某种投射。故事的推进也颇有匠心,并非一味地追求戏剧性冲突,而是以一种更为舒缓却又步步紧逼的方式展开,让读者在不知不觉中被卷入其中,对后续的发展充满了期待。人物之间的对话设计更是精彩绝伦,充满了智慧的碰撞与情感的交织,每一句台词都经过精心打磨,既有言外之意,又有画龙点睛之效。我曾多次因为某一段精彩的描写或某句深刻的对话而停下来反复咀嚼,品味其中的韵味。这本书不愧为一部杰作,它不仅仅是一个引人入胜的故事,更是一次关于人性、关于成长、关于选择的深刻思考。
评分我最近读到的一本小说,它在叙事方式上给我带来了极大的惊喜。作者仿佛是一个技艺精湛的指挥家,将故事的节奏、人物的情感、情节的起伏处理得恰到好处,让我完全沉浸其中,欲罢不能。我非常喜欢书中对复杂人际关系的描绘,那种微妙的试探、暗中的较量、或是温暖的扶持,都被刻画得淋漓尽致,让我看到了人与人之间情感的纠葛与羁绊。最让我印象深刻的是,作者并没有简单地将人物分为好人或坏人,而是呈现出他们性格的多面性,让他们在道德的边界上徘徊,在困境中做出艰难的选择。这种真实感,让我觉得他们就是我们身边的普通人,只不过他们的人生轨迹更加戏剧化了一些。这本书的结尾也处理得相当出色,既不会让人觉得突兀,又留下了足够的空间让人回味和想象。我常常会在读完之后,久久不能平静,思考书中人物的命运,以及他们选择背后所蕴含的意义。这是一本真正能够触动人心的作品,它让我看到了人性的深度与广度。
评分哇,这本书简直就是我最近的心头好!怎么说呢,它给我的感觉就像是打开了一个全新的世界,里面的一切都充满了未知与惊喜。作者的叙事风格非常独特,有一种很强的画面感,我读着读着,脑子里就像在放电影一样,每一个情节都特别生动。最让我印象深刻的是,它对人物情感的处理,真的特别细腻,有时候是一些很小的动作,或者是一句不经意的话,都能让人感受到角色内心的波澜。我常常会被这些细微之处打动,觉得作者简直太懂人心了。而且,这本书的情节设计也很巧妙,有时候会埋下一些小小的伏笔,等到后面才揭晓,那种恍然大悟的感觉,真的是太爽了!我喜欢作者处理冲突的方式,不会显得很生硬,而是很自然地融入到故事中,让整个故事更加引人入胜。读这本书的时候,我感觉自己也被卷入其中,和角色一起经历他们的喜怒哀乐,一起面对他们的挑战。总的来说,这是一本非常值得推荐的书,它能让你忘却现实的烦恼,沉浸在一个精彩绝伦的故事里。
评分最近在读这本书提高英文,Jane Austen不愧是英国人的骄傲啊~~~
评分#看的是signet classics版本的,找不到,就记在这个版本上吧。读英文还是有些吃力的,断断续续读了很久,书买了有2年了吧,最近半年才花了多点时间看,还拿着当Subway book。英语功力还不够,前面觉得挺平淡的,艾玛是个爱管闲事,自作聪明的人。到后面Frank和Jane是一对时开始觉得精彩。对我来说,能看完就是进步了。。。
评分Jane最好的爱情描写。
评分She is a faultless girl despite all her faults. Austen must be a master of language.
评分Mr. Knightly sets a new (higher) standard for gentleman @@
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