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Middlemarch - George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot

出版社

Penguin English Library

出版时间

2012-01-01

ISBN

9780141199795

评分

★★★★★

标签

小说文学英国英文原版

书籍介绍
Middlemarch is a moving story of men and women longing to do the right thing, but making bad decisions. Among them is Dorothea Brooke, who wants to improve the world but finds her idealism crushed by her unhappy marriage to the aged scholar Casaubon, and Dr Lydgate, whose shallow, spendthrift wife threatens his dreams of medical progress. Described by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people', Middlemarch's panoramic sweep ranges over the whole of human existence — art, faith, science, politics and love — yet at its heart are real, flawed people searching for contentment.
AI导读
核心看点
  • 全景式展现英国社会转型期群像
  • 理想主义者在现实婚姻中的幻灭
  • 深刻洞察人性弱点与道德困境
适合谁读
  • 喜爱严肃文学与深度心理描写者
  • 对维多利亚时代社会变迁感兴趣者
  • 具备耐心阅读长篇英文原著的读者
读前提醒
  • 人物众多关系复杂，建议先理清脉络
  • 开篇节奏较慢，需耐心进入叙事语境
  • 可借助有声书辅助区分不同角色声音
读者共识
  • 被誉为写给成年人的经典小说
  • 文笔细腻深刻，具有穿透力
  • 虽冗长但结构精妙，值得反复品味

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录
  • "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ‘Oh, nothing!’ Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt ot"
  • "Qui veut delasser hors de propos, lasse. PASCAL"
  • "They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk SHAKESPEARE: Tempest"
  • "Hence Mr Gambit could go away from the chief grocer's without fear of rivalry, but not without a sense that Lydgate was one of those hypocrites who try to discredit others by advertising their own honesty, and that it might be worth some people's while to show him up."
用户评论
Oh how I wish I read this earlier!
”What do I think of Middlemarch? What do I think of glory."-Emily Dickinson
一年半拖拖拉拉读，最后一鼓作气读完。人物太多，事无巨细，各种八卦。开始很难适应她的文风，觉得平淡无力，会看睡，看到中后部分，纠纷多了，提神了。忠诚二字考验人性。
前面拖拖拉拉读了半年，小说结尾将所有人串联起来，最后一口气读完后后十分之一。
‘If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolve are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.’
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