FEW EGGS AND NO ORANGES: THE DIARIES OF VERE HODGSON 1940-45

Book ID/图书代码： 06580014B75696

English Summary/英文概要： Vere Hodgson worked for a Notting Hill Gate charity during the Second World War ; being sparky and unflappable, she was not going to let Hitler make a difference to her life, but the beginning of the Blitz did, which is why she began her published diaries on 25 June 1940: ’Last night at about 1 a.m. we had the first air raid of the war on London. My room is just opposite the police station, so I got the full benefit of the sirens. It made me leap out of bed...’

The war continued for five more years, but Vere’s comments on her work, friends, what was happening to London and the news (’We hold our breath over Crete’, ’There is to be a new system of Warning’) combine to make Few Eggs and No Oranges unusually readable. It is a long - 600 page - book but a deeply engrossing one. The TLS remarked: ’The diaries capture the sense of living through great events and not being overwhelmed by them... they display an extraordinary - though widespread - capacity for not giving way in the face of horrors and difficulties.’ ’A classic book that still rings vibrant and helpful today... a heartwarming record of one articulate woman’s coping with the war,’ wrote the Tallahassee Democratic Review.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 维尔•霍奇森在二次世界大战期间，曾为英国诺丁山慈善机构工作；生性活泼和淡定的她，她不打算让希特勒改变她原有的生活状态，但德对英的闪电战还是拉开了序幕，这就是为何维尔开始在1940年6月25日发表自己的日记：‘昨天凌晨一点，我们在伦敦遭遇了第一轮空袭。我的房间正好就在警察局的对面，所以我可以第一时间听到空袭警报。这个好处让我可以迅速从床上跳起…’
这场战争持续了有五个多年头，但维尔对自己的工作，朋友的评论还没有中断过，她依然记录这伦敦所发生的新闻和趣事（‘我们在克里特屏住气息，’‘现在有一种新的警报系统’）这一切的新鲜战事信息汇集于这本《Few Eggs and No oranges》中，让这本看似普通的战事日记颇具可看性。600页的日记，却绝不会让人觉得乏善可陈。《泰晤士报文学增刊》评论：‘这本日记透过重大事刻画出生活中的点滴感觉，而没有作任何肆意渲染…在平常中彰显非凡-虽然是平民大众对历史的匆匆一笔记录，却无法读者回避那个战火纷飞岁月中人们所面对的可怕和艰险。’…… (Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’Still vibrant and helpful today...a poignant, honest, frightening, yet heartwarming record of one articulate woman’s coping with war.’ -- The Tallahassee Democrat Review September 2001

About the Author/作者介绍： Winifred VERE HODGSON was born in 1901 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where her widowed mother ran the family home as a boarding house. Vere, named after an uncle who was the marine biologist on Captain Scott’s ship, read History at Birmingham University, taught first at the Poggio Imperiale, the former Summer Palace of the grand dukes of Tuscany which had been turned into a ’rather select girls’ school’ (Mussolini’s daughter was a pupil), and later on at a school in Folkestone. From the early 1930s she helped to run a local charity in Notting Hill Gate. Vere kept a diary from girlhood onwards and in 1976 edited her 1940-45 diaries for publication as Few Eggs and No Oranges. After her retirement she went to live in the village of Church Stretton in Shropshire, where she died in 1979.

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