The Golden Bowl pdf

亨利·詹姆斯（Henry James）是英美作家，是现实主义小说流派的创始人和领导者，他出色的作品使许多学者认为他是最伟大的小说风格大师。他一生的大部分时间都在英国度过，他的作品在他去世前不久成为公共新闻。亨利以一系列描写美洲和欧洲相遇的小说而闻名，他的小说侧重于个人关系，在这种关系中适当地测试力量。提出伦理问题，以及他从个人观点出发的写作方法，让他有机会探索意识和概念的现象。这使他的写作风格与绘画中的印象派学派相比。

The Golden Bowl pdf 亨利·詹姆斯

'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. The superstitious Amerigo, fearing for his gilded future, refuses to accept it as a wedding gift from Charlotte. 'Don't you think too much of "cracks,"' she is later to say to him, 'aren't you too afraid of them? I risk the cracks...' When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must leave the security of her childhood and try to reassemble the pieces of her shattered happiness. In this, the last of his three great poetic masterpieces, James combined with a dazzling virtuosity elements of social comedy, of mystery, terror, and myth. "The Golden Bowl" is the most controversial, ambiguous, and sophisticated of James's novels. The text of this World's Classics paperback is that of the first English edition (1905). James's Preface is included, and a new introduction, notes, and selected variant readings.