MINNIE’S ROOM: THE PEACETIME STORIES OF MOLLIE PANTER-DOWNES
Book ID/图书代码： 06580013B64633
English Summary/英文概要： This companion volume to Persephone book no. 8 Good Evening, Mrs Craven contains ten stories describing aspects of British life in the years after the war. ’Minnie’s Room’ itself is about a family who are unable to believe that their maid wants to leave them to live in a room of her own. An elderly couple emigrates because of ’the dragon out to gobble their modest, honourable incomes.’ The sisters in ’Beside the Still Waters’ grumble because ’Everything is so terribly difficult nowadays.’
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部《晚安，克雷文夫人》姊妹篇涵盖了战后英国社会生活百态。《明尼的房间》讲述了一个家族的女仆想要离开原来住的单独房间，独自生活的故事。一对年长的移民夫妇，由于‘被他们被吞噬的谦逊，他们正当的收入来源。’一对姐妹在‘安息的水边’抱怨，‘因为如今的世道已变得如此困难。’
（每日邮报）评论道，这是些‘深刻，有趣而又辛酸的故事，（泰晤士报）评价这部作品‘以一种平实的眼光，笔者用其独有的天赋记录了战后英国经济的民生。而《观察家》报说这部小说的作者莫莉‘巧妙地披露了市井百态。’(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：’She always displayed a gift for elucidating what is eternal in human relationships.. an unerring observer, with a stunning gift for economy of description.’ -- The Times June 2002
’The stories are well-written, acute, funny and poignant. The feeling of how lives were lived is palpable.’ -- The Daily Telegraph June 2002
About the Author/作者介绍： 莫莉•潘特-道恩斯（1906年至1997年），在身兼皇家爱尔兰军团少校一职的父亲在1914年8月在蒙斯牺牲后，由母亲在苏塞克斯抚养长大。她曾在17岁时，发表了自己的第一部畅销小说《无边的海》。莫莉还撰写了三部通俗小说和文章和短篇小说，并在1929年与克莱尔罗宾逊成婚后，环游世界，随后搬至位于奇丁福尔德附近的一处十六世纪的房子，在那里和家人一同生活超多了半个世纪。每天，莫利带上她的午餐来到她位于树林里的一处写作小屋，1938年至1984年间，她为“纽约客” 共撰写了852篇评论文章：从对《伦敦来的信件》的书评，短篇小说《大新闻》，以及对1967年出版的非小说《印度维多利亚式避暑山》的评论文摘 。 1947年，莫莉发表了《美好的一天》，本世纪最经典不衰的一部小说。此次，Persephone 出版社重版了作者的两部短篇小说《晚安，克雷文夫人》和《米妮的房间》。
Mollie Panter-Downes (1906-97) was brought up by her mother in Sussex after her father, a Major in the Royal Irish Regiment, was killed at Mons in August 1914. She published her first novel, The Shoreless Sea, when she was seventeen – it was a bestseller. She wrote three more popular novels as well as articles and short stories and in 1929 married Clare Robinson, travelled round the world, and moved to the sixteenth-century house near Chiddingfold in Surrey where she and her family lived for over sixty years. Each day Mollie took a basket with her lunch to a writing hut in the woods where, between 1938 and 1984, she wrote 852 pieces for The New Yorker: Letters from London, book reviews, Reporter at Large and short stories, as well as non-fiction books such as Ooty Preserved (1967). In 1947 she published One Fine Day, one of the century’s most enduring novels. Persephone has reprinted the short stories as Good Evening, Mrs Craven and Minnie’s Room.
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