MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS AND MRS HARRIS GOES TO NEW YORK

Book ID/图书代码： 00200014B67691

English Summary/英文概要： Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant’s wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she’s never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she’s never wanted anything as much before. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs Harris scrimps, saves and slaves away until one day, after three long, uncomplaining years, she finally has enough money to go to Paris. When she arrives at the House of Dior, Mrs Harris has little idea of how her life is about to be turned upside down and how many other lives she will transform forever. Always kind, always cheery and always winsome, the indomitable Mrs Harris takes Paris by storm and learns one of life’s greatest lessons along the way. This treasure from the 1950s introduces the irrepressible Mrs Harris, part charlady, part fairy-godmother, whose adventures take her from her humble London roots to the heights of glamour.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 哈里斯夫人可谓是伦敦打杂女佣界的一位中坚分子，她快乐地为当地富有阶层打扫清理房子。 一天，当整理唐特夫人的衣橱时，她无意间发现了自己生平中从未看到过的一条漂亮的迪奥裙子。 在她卑微和谦逊的女佣岁月里，她从来没有见证过这样一件神奇的礼服。为了让自己的梦想成真，哈里斯夫人开始精打细算起来，并在日后默默地开始埋头苦干存钱，最终她有了攒够了钱可以去巴黎。 当她来到迪奥时装店，哈里斯夫人对如何彻底改变自己原有的枯燥乏味生活有了一点想法，并决意要让自己有另一种活法。 永远保持低调，愉悦的心情和迷人的风韵，不服输的哈里斯夫人沿途欣赏着巴黎的风景，并学会了人生中的重大一课。 这件50年代的品牌礼服让哈里斯夫人欲罢不能，身上那一部分女佣成份，一部分的宛如仙女教母的气质，把这为来自伦敦底层的女士提升至了一个散发着浑身魅力的高度…… (Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’Mrs Harris is one of the great creations of fiction - so real that you feel you know her, yet truly magical as well. I can never have enough of her’ Justine Picardie ’It is almost impossible not to succumb to Gallico’s spell’ Times Literary Supplement ’Wherever she goes Mrs. Harris seems to sprinkle fairy dust over those she meets. YET she’s very realistically drawn and the book is fraught with painful setbacks ... In the end Mrs. Harris’ yearning for the dress is secondary. The friendships that are made because of her quest are what change her life forever. This book was a delight from start to finish’ Worthwhilebooks.blogspot ’A heartwarming, engaging novelette’ Bookmark

About the Author/作者介绍： 保罗•葛里克（Paul Gallico）（1897年7月26日- 1976年7月15日），美国小说家，短篇小说和体育作家。他的许多作品被改编为电影。保罗的父亲是意大利人，母亲来自奥地利；1895年移民至纽约。
就读于纽约公立学校的保罗，1916年考上了哥伦比亚大学。1921年获得了理学学士学位，不过曾因参加一战，而辍学一年半。战后他在美国国家电影审查委员会工作，半年后他在《纽约每日新闻报》谋得了电影评论员一职。他曾因自己的评论文字过于犀利，而被贬逐到体育期刊部门。
在这段失意岁月，他被派往杰克•邓普西的训练营，决定采访邓普西是否能一举拿下世界重量级冠军，以及对夺冠的想法。比赛结果很不错；和邓普西对决的拳手加里克两分钟内被打到出局。至此这位拳坛著名的勾拳拳手的事业便一发不可收。
1923年保罗•葛里克成为《每日新闻》的每日体育专栏编辑。他还组创了金手套非职业拳击赛项目。在他的这段职业生涯中，保罗成为了美国小有名气的体育作家之一。但他一直想从事小说和短篇故事写作，为如《名利场》杂志和《星期六晚邮报》撰写体育专栏文章。1936年他将自己的一部短篇小说以五千美元卖给了电影公司，让他有了一笔进项收入。就此他搁笔体育专栏写作，定居于欧洲，致力于文学创作。 他的第一本小说《再见，运动》，正如书名所示，是他对体育专栏写作的正式就此告别。
虽然他的名字在美国家喻户晓，但在世界其他地方却不竟然。 1941年，《雪雁》的问世，打破了他的默默无闻，就今天的标准来看，如果身为作家的一生的追求便是能获得公众的认可，自己的作品能经久不衰。 除了在1943年和1946年之间短暂的随军记者经历之后，他的有生之年一直是一位全职的自由职业者的作家。 他曾环游世界各地，包括英国、墨西哥、列支敦士登和摩纳哥，并在昂蒂布（法国东南部海港）渡过了自己的最后岁月生活。

Paul Gallico was born in New York City, of Italian and Austrian parentage, in 1897, and attended Columbia University. From 1922 to 1936 he worked on the New York Daily News as sports editor, columnist, and assistant managing editor. In 1936 he bought a house on top of a hill at Salcombe in South Devon and settled down with a Great Dane and twenty-three assorted cats. It was in 1941 that he made his name with The Snow Goose, a classic story of Dunkirk which became a world-wide best-seller. Having served as a gunner’s mate in the U.S. Navy in 1918, he was again active as a war correspondent with the American Expeditionary Force in 1944. Paul Gallico, who later lived in Monaco, was a first-class fencer and a keen sea-fisherman. He wrote over forty books, four of which were the adventures of Mrs Harris: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (1958), Mrs Harris Goes to New York (1959), Mrs. Harris, M.P. (1965) and Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow (1974). One of the most prolific and professional of American authors, Paul Gallico died in July 1976. He was married four times and had several children.

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