THE SIMPLE SOUL AND OTHER STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 12100005B08454
English Summary/英文概要： This treasure trove of talent is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson’s countless readers - the North-East, the South Coast and London, with a time-scale stretching from the 1920’s to the present day.
In the title story, a disillusioned husband decides to call on an office colleague he has always slightly despised, and finds himself having to re-evaluate his own family relationships in the light of what he discovers in the other’s home. In the three stories that make up ’The Forbidden Word’, the first set in the 1920s, the second in the 1950s and the third in the1980s, Catherine Cookson traces the changes in attitudes to marriage and pregnancy that have taken place in the last eighty years.
In other stories a shy bachelor begins to make friends for the first time in his life among the people who like himself have taken refuge from the Blitz in the London Underground, and a much put-upon young woman who makes up her own mind to escape from her family’s domestic exploitation of her. The reader catches a glimpse behind the scenes in a large department store, and learns of the havoc that a husband’s passion for cricket can cause.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部堪称瑰宝之作的故事，将读者带至所熟悉的 —— 凯瑟琳•库克森笔下所描绘的英国东北部,南海岸和伦敦,时间跨度从1920年代一直到现在。
在这个故事中,一个幻想破灭的丈夫决定去拜访一个他以前一直轻视的办公室的同事, 在对方的家里，这个男人发现了自己不得不重新评估自己的家庭关系。在这三个故事所组成的“所忌讳是事情”中,第一个故事发生在1920年代,第二个和第三个故事分别发生在1950年代和1980年代,凯瑟琳•库克森追溯了在过去的八十年间，对于婚姻和怀孕问题，故事主人公的态度变化。
其他故事中描述了一个害羞单身汉平生第一次，像他这样的喜欢在伦敦地下铁躲避空袭的人当中，开始交朋友, 一位备受折磨的年轻女人想让她自己的心,能尽快摆脱来自她家人对她的无尽剥削。读者将在故事中的一家大型百货商店得窥一般，了解一个丈夫为何会对板球激情四射。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 凯瑟琳•库克森在1906年出生于凯蒂马克穆伦（Katie McMullen），四十岁时才开始写作，但在九十多岁辞世时已写下逾90本书。她生长在泰恩河畔，周围是贫瘠的梯田，这成为她许多作品的背景。她的小说以19世纪的生活为背景，场景往往设定在采矿场、造船场、农场及附近的乡郊，描写英格兰东北部人民的爱情、悲哀、艰辛和战胜灾难的喜悦。尽管她的小说生动描写了英格兰东北部的生活，但实际上她在22岁时便已移居南部沿海城市哈士汀（Hastings）定居，直到70多岁时才重返故里。
Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne.
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