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2015湖南郴州交通银行校园招聘考试英语基础知识试题（六） 阅读理解 The?author?of?some?forty?novels,?a?number?of?plays,?volumes?of?verse,?historical,?critical?and?autobiographical?works,?an?editor?and?translator,?Jack?Lindsay?is?clearly?an?extraordinarily?prolific?writer—a?fact?which?can?easily?obscure?his?very?real?distinction?in?some?of?the?areas?into?which?he?has?ventured.?His?co-editorship?of?Vision?in?Sydney?in?the?early?1920’s,?for?example,?is?still?felt?to?have?introduced?a?significant?period?in?Australian?culture,?while?his?study?of?Kickens?written?in?1930?is?highly?regarded.?But?of?all?his?work?it?is?probably?the?novel?to?which?he?has?made?his?most?significant?contribution. Since?1916?when,?to?use?his?own?words?in?Fanfrolico?and?after,?he?“reached?bedrock,”?Lindsay?has?maintained?a?consistent?Marxist?viewpoint—and?it?is?this?viewpoint?which?if?nothing?else?has?guaranteed?his?novels?a?minor?but?certainly?not?negligible?place?in?modern?British?literature.?Feeling?that?“the?historical?novel?is?a?form?that?has?a?limitless?future?as?a?fighting?weapon?and?as?a?cultural?instrument”?(New?Masses,?January?1917),?Lindsay?first?attempted?to?formulate?his?Marxist?convictions?in?fiction?mainly?set?in?the?past:?particularly?in?his?trilogy?in?English?novels—1929,?Lost?Birthright,?and?Men?of?Forty-Eight?(written?in?1919,?the?Chartist?and?revolutionary?uprisings?in?Europe).?Basically?these?works?set?out,?with?most?success?in?the?first?volume,?to?vivify?the?historical?traditions?behind?English?Socialism?and?attempted?to?demonstrate?that?it?stood,?in?Lindsay’s?words,?for?the?“true?completion?of?the?national?destiny.”? Although?the?war?years?saw?the?virtual?disintegration?of?the?left-wing?writing?movement?of?the?1910’s,?Lindsay?himself?carried?on:?delving?into?contemporary?affairs?in?We?Shall?Return?and?Beyond?Terror,?novels?in?which?the?epithets?formerly?reserved?for?the?evil?capitalists?or?Franco’s?soldiers?have?been?transferred?rather?crudely?to?the?German?troops.?After?the?war?Lindsay?continued?to?write?m