张汉熙高级英语第一册课件第14课.ppt

Lesson 14 Argentia Bay By Herman Wouk Background about the author Herman Wouk (1915- ) is an American novelist. He is better known for his epic war novels. After graduation from Columbia University, he became a radio scriptwriter. Though he achieved considerable social and financial success in the radio show business world, he found both the work and environment unsatisfying. He enlisted in the navy after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and spent three years as an officer on a destroyer-minesweeper in the pacific. Background about the author Much of Aurora Dawn (1947极光), the first novel of the New York advertising world, was written while Wouk was in service. With the publication of his first novel in 1947, Herman Wouk began a career in letters which has brought him renown, the Pulitzer Prize and a long international audience for his books and plays. His latest book is War and Remembrance (1978) which is the sequel to The Winds of War (1971), a work of equal size and scope, picturing the global conflict from Pearl Harbor to the fall of Nazi Germany and the Japanese surrender. Background about the author He has published nine additional works of fiction, nonfiction and drama, including The City Bay (1948), The Caine Mutiny (1951, Pulitzer Prize), Marjorie Morningstar (1955), This is My God (1959), Youngblood Hawke (1962), and Don’t Stop the Carnival (1965). Pulitzer Prize: Joseph Pulitzer was an American newspaper publisher and the founder of the Pulitzer Prize. Today there are Pulitzer Prizes for distinguished works in American fiction, drama, history, biography and autobiography, nonfiction, poetry and music. Joseph Pulitzer founded the Pulitzer Prize in 1903 because he believed in encouraging excellence in the arts and journalism. He gave Columbia University $2, 000,000. Part of it was for the Prizes and part for the creation of the Columbia School of Journalism. Joseph Pulitzer died on Oct. 29, 1911. About the book: The Winds of War i