In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The novels included in this beautiful leatherbound collection--Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan--represent all of Austen's mature work as a novelist, and provide the reader with an introduction to the world she and her memorable characters inhabited.
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Biography
In 1801, George Austen retired from the clergy, and Jane, Cassandra, and their parents took up residence in Bath, a fashionable town Jane liked far less than her native village. Jane seems to have written little during this period. When Mr. Austen died in 1805, the three women, Mrs. Austen and her daughters, moved first to Southampton and then, partly subsidized by Jane's brothers, occupied a house in Chawton, a village not unlike Jane's first home. There she began to work on writing and pursued publishing once more, leading to the anonymous publication of Sense and Sensibility in 1811 and Pride and Prejudice in 1813, to modestly good reviews.
Known for her cheerful, modest, and witty character, Jane Austen had a busy family and social life, but as far as we know very little direct romantic experience. There were early flirtations, a quickly retracted agreement to marry the wealthy brother of a friend, and a rumored short-lived attachment --while she was traveling -- that has not been verified. Her last years were quiet and devoted to family, friends, and writing her final novels. In 1817 she had to interrupt work on her last and unfinished novel, Sanditon, because she fell ill. She died on July 18, 1817, in Winchester, where she had been taken for medical treatment. After her death, her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published, together with a biographical notice, due to the efforts of her brother Henry. Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral.
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评分总的来说,这是一部需要静下心来,在没有干扰的环境下才能真正体会其妙处的作品。我很少在文学作品中看到如此清晰地展示出“结构如何塑造意义”的案例。七个故事,七种完全不同的节奏和调性,但它们共同指向的,是对“时间流逝”这一永恒母题的探讨。有的故事讲述的是瞬间的永恒,有的则是漫长岁月的消磨。作者对于细节的关注达到了近乎偏执的程度,无论是对话中人物的口音变化,还是对某一特定季节光线色彩的描述,都精准到让人毛骨悚然。它不是那种读完后可以轻松合上书本、转头就忘的作品;相反,它会在你脑中扎根,并在接下来的日子里,以一种微妙的方式影响你观察周围世界的方式。阅读它,更像是一次精神上的远足,虽然过程可能略显艰辛,但抵达的风景绝对是值得的。强烈推荐给那些寻求真正文学挑战,而非仅仅是消遣的读者。
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