WESTWOOD: OR THE GENTLE POWERS

Book ID/图书代码： 03540012B52255

English Summary/英文概要： Set in wartime Highgate, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is ’not the type that attracts men’. What she lacks for in looks she makes up for with a romantic nature and cultural aspirations - she goes to concerts at the National Gallery and is a devotee of the modern drama. By contrast, Margaret’s best friend Hilda has a sunny temperament and effortlessly attractive. Hilda’s many "boys" are always "ever so cheery". When Margaret finds a ration book in Hampstead Heath the playwright Gerard Challis enters both their lives. Challis is delighted with his own work and lines such as, ’Suffering is the anvil upon which the crystal sword of integrity is hammered’. He has no use for humour, ’he had more than once publicly and severely put it in its place (where, with Shakespeare and Jane Austen, it stayed).’ Margaret slavishly adores Challis and his artistic circle; Challis idolises Hilda for her hair, her eyes and Hilda find’s Gerard’s romantic overtures a bit of a bind. This is a delightfully wistful tale of romantic entanglements and self-reliance

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事发生在战争时期的威斯特伍德，海格特(Highgate, Westwood)。玛格丽特·斯特格斯(Margaret Steggles)是一个相貌平凡的姑娘，却博览群书。虽然母亲告诉她她没有吸引男人们的美丽容貌，玛格丽特却从未放弃，努力用自己多年阅读修养成的浪漫情怀和对文化的热情弥补着自己容貌上的欠缺---她喜爱在国家艺术剧院听音乐会，并且是现代戏剧爱好者。玛格丽特的挚友希尔达（Hilda)则与她完全相反，她阳光开朗，魅力四射，并拥有众多同样出色的男友。一次偶然的机会，玛格丽特在汉普斯彼得荒原发现了一本配给书，剧作家杰拉德·查理斯(Gerard Challis)因此进入了她们的生活。查理斯一直对自己的作品引以为傲，尤其对于“痛苦犹如钉入铁毡的水晶利刃”这样的句子。他不仅对此毫无幽默可言，还不止一次的在公开场合引用，并认为其与莎士比亚和简奥斯汀(Jane Austen)并驾齐驱。玛格丽特却狂热的崇拜查理斯和他的文学小圈子，而查理斯则迷恋希尔达的美貌，但希尔达却觉得杰拉德的浪漫求爱有点难以承受。由此，本书展开了一段浪漫故事，关于感情纠葛，关于自立，睿智之中不乏浪漫风趣。(DC & CK)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 斯黛拉·吉本斯(Stella Gibbons)，1902年生於倫敦。曾就讀於北倫敦學院學校，並在大學裡主修新聞學。曾在各大報刊雜誌如《標準晚報》等工作近十年。現著有25部小說，三篇短篇故事集及四本詩集。首部作品是詩集《山林猛獸》(The Mountain Beast)（1930），首部小說《冷慰莊園》(Cold Comfort Farm)（1932) 並獲1933年荷魯斯女性生活奬(Femina Vie Heuruse Prize)，其他作品包括《冷慰莊園聖誕夜》(Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm)（1940）,《威斯特伍德》(Westwood)（1946）,《冷慰莊園會議》(Conference at Cold Comfort Farm)（1959）,和《星光》(Starlight)（1967)。1950年被選為皇家文學社成員。1933年嫁給演員和歌手阿蘭·韋伯(Allan Webb)，育有一女。斯黛拉·吉本斯於1989年離世。

Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short-stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her works are Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

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