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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评分这本书提供了一种非常独特的“阅读体验”,它更像是一场智力上的探险,而非简单的消遣。如果说有什么是让我印象深刻的,那就是作者对于语言本身的驾驭能力。他似乎能将最普通的词汇组合出前所未有的韵律和意义。某些段落的排比和重复,充满了诗歌般的节奏感,即便在描述最残酷的现实时,也带着一种奇异的美感,让人在不忍卒读的同时,又贪恋那种文字带来的感官上的刺激。它对社会阶层的剖析也十分尖锐和毫不留情,毫不留恋地揭露了权力如何腐蚀人性,以及身份认同在现代社会中变得何等脆弱。我特别欣赏作者的勇气,他没有试图去美化那些黑暗的角落,而是用清晰、冷峻的目光直视它们。这是一本需要带着笔记去阅读的书,因为它充满了可供挖掘的文本层次。
评分说实话,我最初是抱着怀疑的心态开始阅读的,因为市面上太多被过度包装的“严肃文学”了。但很快,我就被那种近乎野蛮的生命力所折服。这里的角色塑造,简直是活生生地从泥土里挣扎出来的。他们不完美,充满了令人恼火的缺陷和矛盾,却也正因如此,才显得如此真实、如此可信。作者对冲突的拿捏炉火纯青,不是那种戏剧化的、突如其来的冲突,而是渗透在日常交流、眼神躲闪、未说出口的沉默之中的那种张力。特别是其中一部探讨家庭伦理的作品,那种代际间的无声战争,被描绘得入木三分,让我不断回忆起自己与长辈之间那些难以言说的隔阂。它的节奏感很独特,时而快得像一场追逐,时而又慢得像凝固的琥珀,但无论快慢,叙事的驱动力始终强劲,仿佛有一股不可抗拒的暗流在推动着一切向前。
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