
J. M. Barrie
彼得潘
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二十九歲的瓦蘭西・史特靈相貌平凡,從未真正活出自己。她在冷漠母親的專制與一大家族的譏嘲下飽受壓抑,困在沉悶的加拿大城鎮裡,只能逃進想像中「藍色城堡」的白日夢。一封醫生來函告訴她,她患有嚴重的心臟疾病,或許只剩一年可活;她內心的某種力量就此掙脫束縛。瓦蘭西開始毫不保留地說出心中所想,反抗大驚失色的親戚,並離家照顧一位行將辭世的昔日友人及其聲名狼藉的父親。她大膽主動向巴尼・斯奈思求婚;這名神祕男子據傳是個罪犯,她卻在他的島上找到了意想不到的幸福。隨著愛情與自尊綻放,一項關乎她健康的驚人發現,以及巴尼真實身分的揭曉,使她的人生化為一則關於解放、浪漫愛情與第二次機會的故事。
Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellington or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her. The tears came into her eyes as she lay there alone in the faintly greying darkness. She dared not let herself cry as hard as she wanted to, for two reasons. She was afraid that crying might bring on another attack of that pain around the heart. She had had a spell of it after she had got into bed—rather worse than any she had had yet. And she was afraid her mother would notice her red eyes at breakfast and keep at her with minute, persistent, mosquito-like questions regarding the cause thereof.