Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 in Ealing, London. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Following his childho od passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. In his spare time he began writing and he published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926, using the name Nevil Shute to protect his engineering career. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they had two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death in 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), A Town Like Alice (1950), and On the Beach (1957).
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我与《像爱丽丝的小镇》的译者叶雷算是熟知,我北上读研时叶老师在学院担任教职。由于年岁相仿、爱好相似便成了好友,得知其译作《像爱丽丝的小镇》付梓出版,不胜欣喜。主人公琴·佩吉特颠沛流落的前尘旧事和际遇离奇的无常命途也因此得以首次出现在中国读者的视野中。 译品...
评分我与《像爱丽丝的小镇》的译者叶雷算是熟知,我北上读研时叶老师在学院担任教职。由于年岁相仿、爱好相似便成了好友,得知其译作《像爱丽丝的小镇》付梓出版,不胜欣喜。主人公琴·佩吉特颠沛流落的前尘旧事和际遇离奇的无常命途也因此得以首次出现在中国读者的视野中。 译品...
评分第一次翻开这本书是在一节创业课上,当时以为故事的主角是诺尔先生,还在想这故事还蛮与众不同,男女主角居然相差四十岁,现在想想还觉得想笑。 琴是幸运的,她有一个富有的舅舅,在她未到而立之年,便有了寻常人没有的财富。她遇到了一个理智又有责任心的财产托管人,诺尔在她...
评分我与《像爱丽丝的小镇》的译者叶雷算是熟知,我北上读研时叶老师在学院担任教职。由于年岁相仿、爱好相似便成了好友,得知其译作《像爱丽丝的小镇》付梓出版,不胜欣喜。主人公琴·佩吉特颠沛流落的前尘旧事和际遇离奇的无常命途也因此得以首次出现在中国读者的视野中。 译品...
评分第一次翻开这本书是在一节创业课上,当时以为故事的主角是诺尔先生,还在想这故事还蛮与众不同,男女主角居然相差四十岁,现在想想还觉得想笑。 琴是幸运的,她有一个富有的舅舅,在她未到而立之年,便有了寻常人没有的财富。她遇到了一个理智又有责任心的财产托管人,诺尔在她...
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Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.
读起来好舒服的一本小说 井真的可以带来好运的哈哈
评分姑且算是,能够完整的读下来了。
评分姑且算是,能够完整的读下来了。
评分本来以为是一个虚构的故事,读到最后才发现确实有人物原型。两个普通人,在战争中变成POW的时候相遇,六年后最终在一起,把Willstown变成了a town like Alice。它传达出积极的人生观以及在我看来特别正确的爱情观。Jean平凡但有远见,内心坚韧,热心且真诚,懂得回报,看得见别人看不见的东西。很喜欢这个故事呀,读完觉得心里很舒服,虽然我读了三个星期才读完因为企鹅出版社的那一版字实在是太尼玛小了。。
评分dream of summer
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