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Words Phrases Hemingway in uniform. For two months he drove ambulances in World War I until he was wounded. Hemingway used to be a journalist in Paris. Hemingway at a fishing camp. Our Man in Havana 《哈瓦那特派员》 （格雷厄姆·格林的作品） Words Phrases Our Man In Havana (1958) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. Certain aspects of the plot, in particular secret military constructions, anticipate the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. 1st edition cover Graham Greene 格雷厄姆·格林 Henry Graham Greene (1904 – 1991) was a British novelist, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and essayist. He wrote a number of thrillers (he called them “entertainments”) which dramatize an ambiguous moral dilemma, often revealing guilt, treachery, failure and a theme of pursuit. Greene was also a film critic and all of the following novels have been made into films: Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), The Third Man (1949), The Quiet American (1955), and Our Man in Havana (1958). Words Phrases The Time Traveller’s Wife 《时空旅人之妻》（奥黛丽·尼芬格的第一本小说） The Time Travelers Wife is the debut novel of American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003 – filmed in 2009. It is science fiction and romance best-seller about a man who travels uncontrollably in time to his own history and visits his wife in her childhood, youth and old age. His wife needs to cope with his absences and dangerous experiences while he travels. The story is a metaphor for distance and miscommunication in failed relationships. Words Phrases The novel won the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize and a British Book Award. Words Phrases First edition cover Audrey Niffenegger 奥黛丽·尼芬格 Audrey Niffenegger (1963– ) is a US writer, artist and academic, who teaches writing to visual artists and shows students how to make books by hand. The Time Traveller’s Wife was her first novel. Words Phrases Salmon Fish