JANE AUSTEN: A LIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 03635013B62710

English Summary/英文概要： At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her. Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer. While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane’s brother Henry that "My dear Sister’s life was not a life of events," Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen’s brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen’s ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers’ naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 简·奥斯丁一生创作了六部为世人所钟爱的小说，却没有留下日记或其他传记材料，仅有一些与家人间的通信也大多被损毁。

于是，知名传记作家克莱尔·托马林采用烘云托月的方式，关注奥斯丁庞大的家族，甚至不怎么相干的邻人，以迂回的方式不断接近真实的奥斯丁，为这位女性作家侧写出一幅新鲜生动且令人信服的肖像。

简的哥哥亨利·奥斯丁对她的一生描述是“平平无奇，没有什么值得一提的事迹”，托马林却展现了与此相反的一面：奥斯丁看似简单的人生其实波澜不断。

奥斯丁与一位年轻的爱尔兰男子有过一段多舛的爱恋，她曾频繁地前往伦敦旅行和访问，她的弟弟在拿破仑战争时期为海军服役，与她关系亲密的表姐的法国丈夫被送上了断头台……奥斯丁生活的年代发生了历史上最轰轰烈烈的事件，虽然她的小说对此丝毫没有涉及，但她的生活却渗透着时代的痕迹。

托马林打破了人们对奥斯丁“几乎没有跳出汉普郡村庄”的局限印象，这部审慎的传记，为我们勾勒了奥斯丁所生活的年代的诸多细节以及对其作品的意义。(DB)

Awards/获奖情况：托马林以锲而不舍的研究和目光敏锐的同情考察了家庭、友情、地方的种种细节和情感烈度，呈现了一幅权威、优雅、凝练、广阔的英国社会图景，也使简拨云见日、明媚可见。 ——维多利亚·格伦迪宁，《每日电讯报》，年度最佳书籍

完美的传记： 内容翔实，妙趣横生，充满温情。托马林让我们深深地置身其中，以至于奥斯丁临终的病情与死亡使读者感同身受，仿佛发生在自己身上的悲剧。 ——德克·博加德,《每日电讯报》，年度最佳书籍

真的太精彩了。我觉得未来许多年内都不会再有比克莱尔·托马林这本更好的简·奥斯丁传记了。她对奥斯丁小说的解读充满真知灼见。常常，她仿佛就站在奥斯丁的书桌后，观察她写作。 ——菲利普·亨舍,《星期日邮报》(DB)

Amazon.com Review

The author of Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and other comedies of manners gets a biography similar in tone to her own books: intelligent but not intellectual, witty without being nasty. Claire Tomalin, author of four previous biographies of notable British women, treats Jane Austen (1775-1817) with the respect her genius deserves. Tomalin eschews gossip and speculation in favor of a sober account of the writer’s life that nonetheless sparkles with sly humor. Perceptive analyses of each of Austen’s novels, with autobiographical links suggested but never insisted upon, add to the value of Jane Austen: A Life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Despite only a few surviving personal papers and letters, no autobiographical notes, and no diaries written by Jane Austen, attempts to piece together the life and personality of the author abound. An experienced biographer, Tomalin makes do by focusing more on the Austen family, acquaintances, and friends than on Austen herself, forthrightly acknowledging, "It is only because of her writing that we think them worth remembering; and yet she is at almost every point harder to summon up than any of them...she is as elusive as a cloud in the night sky." Like David Nokes’s recent biography, Jane Austen (LJ 9/1/97), Tomalin’s presents an engaging story of the life and times of the Austen family. Although Tomalin’s biography is not as detailed as Nokes’s, it offers a freshness in its attention to, and compassion regarding the child-rearing practices of the Austens, the physical demands on child-bearing women, and to the portrayal of Austen’s will, determination, and energy in her final days. Recommended for literature collections for its perspective and minimal speculations.?Jeris Cassel, Rutgers Univ. Libs., New Brunswick, N.J. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author/作者介绍： 克莱尔·托马林（Claire Tomalin） 英国传记作家。受教于剑桥大学，曾任《新政治家》周刊和《星期日泰晤士报》的文学编辑。著有多本备受赞誉的传记：《玛丽·沃尔斯通克拉夫特的生与死》（1974，惠特布莱德传记奖），《凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德：秘密人生》（1987），《隐身的女人：奈莉·特南与查尔斯·狄更斯》（1990），《乔丹夫人的职业：一位伟大的女演员和一位未来国君的故事》（1995），《塞缪尔·佩皮斯：无与伦比的自我》（2002，惠特布莱德年度图书奖），《托马斯·哈代：被时间撕裂的人》（2007），《狄更斯传》（2011）。另有回忆录《我自己的人生》（2017）。(DB)

Claire Tomalin is the author of several prize-winning biographies--of Mary Wollstonecraft; Katherine Mansfield; Dickens’s secret mistress, Nelly Ternan; and Dora Jordan, the actress who for twenty years was companion to the future William IV. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and The Sunday Times. Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.

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