一位女士的画像 THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
分類: 图书,进口原版书,小说 Fiction ,
作者: Henry James等著
出 版 社: Oversea Publishing House
出版时间: 1997-8-1字数:版次: 1页数: 504印刷时间: 1997/08/01开本: 48开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9781853261770包装: 平装内容简介
With amazing vividness, Nina Foch essays Henry James's earliest (1881) and perhaps most accessible masterpiece. A penniless American girl is brought to Europe where her beauty, ingenuousness, and naïveté attract a variety of suitors. In spite of wanting to do everything right, everything comes out wrong in this perceptive, subtle, and multilayered psychological novel, which Foch plays like a musical instrument. A rather loud one -- she hits all the notes correctly but coarsely. The effect is like a bordello pianist--albeit one with nimble fingers--playing Chopin on an old upright. A maladroit abridgment causes occasional confusion. Lackadaisical engineering adds stridency and calls attention to edits. Y.R. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.