Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.
With a new introduction by James Wood
Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
斯考比在从海难中生还、只一息尚存的小女孩的病床前,领悟到: "归根到底,一个人还是无法真正逃避一件事的。只要是人,就必须历尽生活的辛酸,如果你某一天因为走运,另一天又由于怯懦,某件事被你逃开,或迟或早你还会遇上第三次的。" 多年前斯考比的女儿去世时,他由于在非...
评分“命运”这两个字太难让人琢磨,对于命运许多人有不同的看法,有的人认为命运是天注定的,有的人认为命运是掌握在自己手中的,但我们都无法完全否认或者肯定这两种说法,这种事情谁能知道呢,我们只需要做好自己不就行了。 书中不同的感情,它包含了命运的各种考验,它反映了人...
评分《事物的核心》葛林 The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene 我忘了有多久沒有讀英國的小說,因為不太吸引我,不過讀葛林的這本《事物的核心》卻是一個很享受的過程,並令我以很快的速度看完了。 「他懷疑如果一個人了解事實的話,他是否甚至會對星球感到悲憫?如果他觸及人...
评分 评分问题的核心,纠结在道德认知的基础上,人为何会痛苦,是因为我们的欲望被阻拦,是我们自己对自己的一番挣扎造成。原来人的多样性表现有许多层面,一会凶神,一会善良,一会惆怅,一会有莫名其妙的高兴。随时都会演变出许多的个性,本书中的上校即是这样一个人,矛盾重重的,又...
最有趣的一段是两个警察同事的打蟑螂比赛,如果是用拖鞋隔空砸死蟑螂的,其术语叫 D.D
评分of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold.
评分20181007 没有宗教信仰,却还是被Henry触动了。 20181010 终究逃不出自己
评分Solitude itself has a voice.
评分最有趣的一段是两个警察同事的打蟑螂比赛,如果是用拖鞋隔空砸死蟑螂的,其术语叫 D.D
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