No Signposts in the Sea（高级英语（上）第十五课）ppt.pptVIP

No Signposts in the Sea Vita Sackville-West Born: 1892 Knole Castle Died: 1962 aged70 Nationality: English Occupation: poet novelist gardener key words: Personal life Marriage Bisexuality Honour Honour The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems. In 1946 Sackville-West was made a Companion of Honor名誉勋爵士for her services to literature. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job on a Fleet Street paper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the distant vista of exotic islands never to be visited and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values. A voyage on many levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edumnd relinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of a love he is simultaneously determined to conceal. She was born in Knole Castle Family I dont remember either my father or my mother very vividly at that time, except that Dada used to take me for terribly long walks and talk to me about science, principally Darwin, and I liked him a great deal better than mother, of whose quick temper I was frightened. ------ from Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson, 1973  Hawthornden Prize霍桑登奖 The Hawthornden Prize, the oldest of the famous British literary prizes, was founded in 1919 by Alice Warrender. It is awarded annually to an English writer for the best work of imaginative literature. It is espe