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.
Centenary edition with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens: a gripping spy thriller, which unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople, weaving a web of subterfuge, murder, politics and passion along the way.
在往返京沪的高铁上读完了这本格林厄姆的成名作,读书的环境和这本书刻画的故事发生地都在列车上,有时偶尔抬头看看飞驰的车窗外转瞬即逝的景致,再结合故事里刻画的上世纪三十年代欧亚大陆东方列车外的冰冷寒天,意象虽不同,但借由奔驰和行驶的方式还是能深切感受到那段发生...
评分这套书大多有序言,但我一般不看,看也是读完整本后当作跋。但是这篇着实让我注目了一下,以至于我第一次去查了序言作者的名字,然后惊艳了,果然是个人物呢!但是也跟宝姨一样惊艳地被癌症消灭了, died in their sixties. 本书阅读过程中确实会隐约觉得哪儿有点不对,需要翻...
评分《斯坦布尔列车》是格林专职写作后,被认为第一部成功的小说,格林自认为这部小说是一部消遣小说。 这部书出版于1934年,格林时年28岁,1929年专职写作后的第五年。不知道格林为什么会说这本书是消遣小说,它与我们通常理解的消遣小说有太多的不同。文学化的场景描写,复杂的人...
评分“她的惊诧和热望,使他拿定了主意。他决心像个东方王公似的赐给她贵重的礼品,而并不要求或指望任何报答。人们历来指责他这个民族的人吝啬,现在他要向一个基督徒表明这责难是何等不公正。在荒漠中流浪四十年,远离埃及奢侈的生活,造成了犹太人严苛的生活习惯,算计日子,囤...
评分每次读中译本,总担心如果译者水平有限,会不会给原著减分。但我也没有尝试阅读英文原著的动力,那已经是大学时代干的体力活+脑力活了。 格雷厄姆•格林,并非格林童话的那位格林,但这位格林也是一位受人尊崇的大师。那天在图书馆看到他的好几部小说,都是簇新的精装本,一...
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