COMMON PEOPLE: THE HISTORY OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY
Book ID/图书代码： 03635014B73063
English Summary/英文概要： ’A remarkable achievement...should become a classic.’ - Margaret Drabble
’Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, Alison Light makes her family speak for England.’ Jerry White, author of London in the Eighteenth Century
Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond.
Epic in scope and deep in feeling, Common People is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country looking for work. Original and eloquent, it is a timely rethinking of who the English were - but ultimately it reflects on history itself, and on our constant need to know who went before us and what we owe them.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “一个了不起的成就……应该成为经典。”——玛格丽特•德拉布尔
“文字优美，研究详尽，艾丽森•莱特的家族史在某种程度上也代表了英格兰。”——杰里•怀特，《第十八世纪的伦敦》的作者
家族史是我们时代的一个普遍现象，但是当我们寻祖时我们是想追求什么？从她的爷爷奶奶开始，艾丽森穿梭在跨越英国的过去两个世纪中的一系列非凡旅程中，在过去和现在之间移动。
史诗般的视角，深深的感觉，《普通人》既是家族史，也是一种新的公共历史，讲述了前往外国找工作的移民者的生活。原始和真实，是对英国人到底是谁的一个及时的反思——但最终它体现出的是历史本身，并且我们需要坚定地知道是谁在我们前面开拓，以及我们欠了他们什么。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾丽森•莱特是一位作家和评论家，目前也是纽卡斯尔大学和谢菲尔德海兰姆大学的现代英国文学和文化学的客座教授。她出生在朴茨茅斯，在丘吉尔大学和剑桥大学念完英文，并获得苏塞克斯大学的哲学博士学问l。她曾在英国广播公司做成人教育方面的工作，也曾在皇家霍洛威学院和伦敦大学学院讲课。她花了数年在伦敦建立了拉斐尔塞缪尔历史中心。她经常为报刊写作，还经常出现在英国广播公司电台和电视上。她最新的著作是是备受推崇的《伍尔夫夫人和仆人》。
Alison Light is a writer and critic who is also currently a Visiting Professor of Modern English Literature and Culture at Newcastle University and at Sheffield Hallam University. She was born in Portsmouth, read English at Churchill College, Cambridge and was awarded a D.Phil. from Sussex University. She has worked at the BBC, in adult education, and also lectured at Royal Holloway College and University College London University. She spent several years establishing the Raphael Samuel History Centre in London. She writes regularly for the press, and also frequently broadcasts on BBC radio and on television. Her last book was the much-acclaimed Mrs Woolf and the Servants.
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