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孤僻

CRATE

Discrete

Introduction: Secret Sharer,He would have echoed the sentiment of his favourite Russian writer, Anton Chekhov, who stated in a letter of 27 March 1894: ‘Not for a minute am I free of the thought that I must, am obliged to write. Write, write and write.’

漸變

Panacea

The Green Baize Door,tion to the world. ‘Oliver’s predicament,’ Greene wrote, ‘the nightmare fight between the darkness, where the demons walk, and the sunlight, where ineffective goodness makes its last stand in a condemned world, will remain part of our imagination forever.’.

情愛

膽小鬼

https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27745-5e headmaster of Berkhamsted school (1910–27), and Marion Raymond Greene, first cousin of one of Greene’s early literary heroes, Robert Louis Stevenson. Greene himself is the cousin of another of the century’s major writers, Christopher Isherwood.

Euphonious

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36533-2 took a camera as if he were scouting a location; and, to describe the Assistant Commissioner’s journey from Piccadilly in . (1934), he paced out the journey himself street by street. But this is background filling, not creative inspiration.

包庇

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27578-6ene was always good at titles). As he explains, it is a description of the limitations of autobiography as a form (it can only tell a partial truth); it is also an evocation of a life only partially fulfilled, like most people’s (it calls to mind Stan Barstow’s evocative title, ., for the sad and co

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