'One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.' Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her and becomes instead a 'house of suffocation'. Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, this is Henry James's most poised achievement, written at the height of his fame in 1881. It is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late. This edition reproduces the revised New York Edition, with James's own Preface. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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伊莎贝拉有着完美主义和理想主义的倾向。爱上奥斯蒙德完全就是自己的幻影在起作用。在表面上，伊莎贝拉是一位渴望自由与独立的女性，厌恶金钱与世俗的虚伪，但是在真正的现实生活中，却为了证明自己对世俗的厌恶，而最终却被一位特别虚伪的一事无成的半吊子而虏获，这是伊莎贝...
評分《一位女士的画像》这本书并不在我的阅读计划中。亨利·詹姆斯虽然鼎鼎大名，但我只是知道他写过《小说的艺术》。（另一个例子是E·M·福斯特，同样鼎鼎大名，写过《小说面面观》。） 读了序言之后，虽然不觉得怎么样，但还是决定把它读完。厚达700页的书，却清新流畅，可以一...
評分在我看来书名《一位女士的画像》就是对这本书最好的定位，就像一张正经绘制的风景油画，写实、饱满、色彩丰富、面面俱到；细节往往值得人欣赏和品味，鸟瞰全局的时候反而容易迷乱。 细致描写——无论是对于七上八下的人物内心活动还是对于花样繁多的沙龙式场景——是《画像》...
評分I suddenly found myself sobbing like a baby after reading this novel, as if I myself had confronted that tragic destiny of Isabel. It’s said that a novel is in its broadest sense a personal, a direct impression of life. When we read between the lines, we a...
評分已经把书还了，但是所有情节都在我脑海里恣意伸展。第一次发现，用心去读一本心理描写丰富的外国小说是如此惬意如此涤荡心灵的历程。亨利詹姆斯爱用大段的景物烘托，爱花大量笔墨去勾勒人物内心活动，爱置身事外评论他笔下的人物……这些都是从前见了外国作品就绕道而行...
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