EDITH WHARTON

Book ID/图书代码： 11320006B08625

English Summary/英文概要： The name ’Edith Wharton’ conjures up ’Gilded Age’ New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth". But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanished age but a fiercely modern woman, writing of sex and incest, love and war - a woman of passionate conviction and conflicting ambitions and desires. Born in 1862 during the Civil War, Wharton broke away from her wealthy background. She travelled adventurously in Europe, eventually settling in Paris: during the First World War she committed herself to war-work, and lived in France, her ’second country’ until her death in 1937. She created fabulous homes in New England and in France, and her life was filled with remarkable friends, including Henry James, Bernard Berenson, Aldous Huxley and Kenneth Clark. She ran her professional life with fierce energy, but she also had her secrets, including a passionate mid-life love-affair, recorded in a coded diary. She was unhappily married, childless, and divorced, and knew loneliness and anguish. Her brilliant, disturbing fiction shows her deep understanding of the longing and struggle in women’s lives. This masterly new biography draws on new material and delves into every aspect of Wharton’s extraordinary life-story. It shifts the emphasis towards Europe, placing her in her social context and her history. In particular, it shows in fascinating detail how she worked and what lies at the heart of her magnificent and subtle books.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Edith Wharton这个名字可以追溯到纽约的“黄金世纪”，那个年代中的“纯白时期”是势力而又无情的。这本由Hermione Lee具有特定意义的自传中，推翻了那个时期原本特有的模型。在那个早已过气，充满追忆的年代里，Edith Wharton并不具备那个时代的幽雅女性形象，而是位风风火火的现代女性，书中用直白的词汇将性、血族相奸、爱情和战争联系起来，描述了她激情的情感，充满争议的野心和欲望。Wharton生于1862年的内战时期，十分具有冒险精神，与富有的家庭脱离关系后，到欧洲各处去旅行，最后迁移到巴黎。在第一次世界大战时，她有参与到战争中的工作中，此后居住与她的“第二家乡”法国，直至1937年她逝世。在新英格兰和法国都有她的足迹，而且她的一生中，结交了许多名人朋友，包括有：Henry James, Bernard Berenson, Aldous Huxley and Kenneth Clark。Edith Wharton总是用充满激情的力量和精神充沛的态度来面对她的生活，但她也有属于她自己的秘密，包括她日记中所记载的爱情故事；她还有段不幸的婚姻，不久就离婚了，没有孩子，她的一生孤寂而且身心都十分的苦闷与痛苦。也正因为这样，她常在小说中流露出对于女性的深刻理解。这本自传采自最新的材料，深入叙述了Edith Wharton非凡的一生。特别强调了她在欧洲所度过的社会生活经历。特别值得一提的是，本书的内容中心华丽而有注重细节的描写，以这种方式详述了她工作也生活中的故事。

Awards/获奖情况：’A magnificent and subtle biography of a magnificent and subtle writer.’ -- Sunday Times
’Painstaking and elegant... One of this book’s great pleasures is Lee’s discussion of Wharton’s work’ - Kasia Boddy, Daily Telegraph

A superb biography’ - Colm Toibin, Irish Times

An exhaustive record of the career of a brilliant and prolific writer.’ - Mary Leland, Irish Examiner

About the Author/作者介绍： Hermione Lee’s previous books include the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf, a collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts, and a study of Elizabeth Bowen. She has written on many American authors, from Willa Cather to Philip Roth. She is a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, and, in 2006, Chair of the judges for the Man-Booker Prize. She is the first woman Goldsmiths’ Professor of English at Oxford University, a Fellow of New College Oxford, of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 for services to literature.

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