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转载 George Gissing

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it is not easy to talk confidently about progress. However, if it can be assumed that we are not going to be blown to pieces in about ten years time, there are many r

2006-09-11 03:24:00 1246

转载 Riding Down from Bangor

The reappearance of Helens Babies, in its day one of the most popular books in the world — within the British Empire alone it was pirated by twenty different publishing firms, the author receiving

2006-09-11 03:23:00 1275

转载 Second Thoughts on James Burnham

James Burnhams book, The Managerial Revolution, made a considerable stir both in the United States and in this country at the time when it was published, and its main thesis has been so much discus

2006-09-11 03:22:00 1080

转载 Politics vs Literature — An Examination of Gulliver's Travels

In Gullivers Travels humanity is attacked, or criticized, from at least three different angles, and the implied character of Gulliver himself necessarily changes somewhat in the process. In Part I

2006-09-11 03:21:00 3265

转载 Nonsense Poetry

In many languages, it is said, there is no nonsense poetry, and there is not a great deal of it even in English. The bulk of it is in nursery rhymes and scraps of folk poetry, some of which may not

2006-09-11 03:20:00 804

转载 A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray

Some years ago a friend took me to the little Berkshire church of which the celebrated Vicar of Bray was once the incumbent. (Actually it is a few miles from Bray, but perhaps at that time the two l

2006-09-11 03:20:00 711

转载 Good Bad Books

Not long ago a publisher commissioned me to write an introduction for a reprint of a novel by Leonard Merrick. This publishing house, it appears, is going to reissue a long series of minor and partl

2006-09-11 03:19:00 826

转载 Tobias Smollett: Scotland's Best Novelist

Realism, a much abused word, has at least four current meanings, but when applied to novels it normally means photographic imitation of everyday life. A ‘realistic’ novel is one in which the dialo

2006-09-11 03:18:00 729

转载 Arthur Koestler

One striking fact about English literature during the present century is the extent to which it has been dominated by foreigners — for example, Conrad, Henry James, Shaw, Joyce, Yeats, Pound and Eli

2006-09-11 03:17:00 792

转载 W. B. Yeats,

One thing that Marxist criticism has not succeeded in doing is to trace the connection between “tendency” and literary style. The subject-matter and imagery of a book can be explained in sociologica

2006-09-11 03:16:00 838

转载 Prophecies of Fascism

Review of The Iron Heel by Jack London; The Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; The Secret of the League by Ernest Bramah.The reprinting of Jack Londons The Iron

2006-09-11 03:15:00 589

转载 Tolstoy and Shakespeare

Last week I pointed out that art and propaganda are never quite separable, and that what are supposed to be purely aes-thetic judgements are always corrupted to some extent by moral or political or

2006-09-11 03:15:00 715

转载 Charles Reade

Since Charles Reades books are published in cheap editions one can assume that he still has his following, but it is unusual to meet anyone who has voluntarily read him. In most people his name see

2006-09-11 03:13:00 760

转载 Books vs. Cigarettes

A couple of years ago a friend of mine, a newspaper editor, was firewatching with some factory workers. They fell to talking about his newspaper, which most of them read and approved of, but when he

2006-09-11 03:12:00 647

If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on se

2006-09-11 03:11:00 1039

转载 Pleasure Spots

Some months ago I cut out of a shiny magazine some paragraphs written by a female journalist and describing the pleasure resort of the future. She had recently been spending some time at Honolulu, w

2006-09-11 03:11:00 754

转载 The Sporting Spirit

Now that the brief visit of the Dynamo football team has come to an end, it is possible to say publicly what many thinking people were saying privately before the Dynamos ever arrived. That is, that

2006-09-11 03:10:00 1562

转载 Freedom of the Park

A few weeks ago, five people who were selling papers outside Hyde Park were arrested by the police for obstruction. When taken before the magistartes, they were all found guilty, four of them bei

2006-09-11 03:09:00 848

转载 In Defence of English Cook

We have heard a good deal of talk in recent years about the desirability of attracting foreign tourists to this country. It is well known that England’s two worst faults, from a foreign visitor’s po

2006-09-11 03:08:00 724

转载 Funny, but not Vulgar

The Great age of English humorous writing — not witty and not satirical, but simply humorous — was the first three quarters of the nineteenth century.Within that period lie Dickenss enormous outp

2006-09-11 03:07:00 881

转载 Antisemitism in Britain

There are about 400,000 known Jews in Britain, and in addition some thousands or, at most, scores of thousands of Jewish refugees who have entered the country from 1934 onwards. The Jewish populatio

2006-09-11 03:06:00 797

转载 Poetry and the Microphone

About a year ago I and a number of others were engaged in broadcasting literary programmes to India, and among other things we broadcast a good deal of verse by contemporary and near-contemporary En

2006-09-11 03:05:00 908

转载 Why Socialists Don't Believe In Fun

The thought of Christmas raises almost automatically the thought of Charles Dickens, and for two very good reasons. To begin with, Dickens is one of the few English writers who have actually written

2006-09-11 03:04:00 857

转载 Pamphlet Literature

One cannot adequately review fifteen pamphlets in a thousand words, and if I have picked out that number it is because between them they make a representative selection of eight out of the nine main t

2006-09-11 03:03:00 641

转载 The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda

I am speaking on literary criticism, and in the world in which we are actually living that is almost as unpromising as speaking about peace. This is not a peaceful age, and it is not a critical age.

2006-09-11 03:02:00 714

转载 The Rediscovery of Europe

When I was a small boy and was taught history — very badly, of course, as nearly everyone in England is — I used to think of history as a sort of long scroll with thick black lines ruled across it a

2006-09-11 03:02:00 1057

转载 New Words

At present the formation of new words is a slow process (I have read somewhere that English gains about six and losses about four words a year) and no new words are deliberately coined except as nam

2006-09-11 03:01:00 1544

转载 Not Counting Niggers

A dozen years ago anyone who had foretold the political line-up of today would have been looked on as a lunatic. And yet the truth is that the present situation — not in detail, of course, but in it

2006-09-11 03:00:00 495

转载 Notes on the Way

Reading Mr Malcolm Muggeridges brilliant and depressing book, The Thirties, I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a wasp. He was sucking jam on my plate, and I cut him in half. He paid

2006-09-11 03:00:00 550

转载 Defence of the Novel

It hardly needs pointing out that at this moment the prestige of the novel is extremely low, so low that the words ‘I never read novels’, which even a dozen years ago were generally uttered with a h

2006-09-11 02:59:00 894

转载 Spilling the Spanish Beans

The Spanish war has probably produced a richer crop of lies than any event since the Great War of 1914-18, but I honestly doubt, in spite of all those hecatombs of nuns who have been raped and cruci

2006-09-11 02:58:00 521

转载 Bookshop Memories

When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you dont work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the thing that c

2006-09-11 02:57:00 658

转载 The Spike

It was late-afternoon. Forty-nine of us, forty-eight men and one woman, lay on the green waiting for the spike to open. We were too tired to talk much. We just sprawled about exhaustedly, with home-

2006-09-11 02:56:00 1303

转载 Some Thoughts on the Common Toad

Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where

2006-09-11 02:55:00 1575

转载 What is Science?

In last weeks Tribune, there was an interesting letter from Mr. J. Stewart Cook, in which he suggested that the best way of avoiding the danger of a ‘scientific hierarchy’ would be to see to it tha

2006-09-11 02:55:00 1866 1

转载 Confessions of a Book Reviewer

In a cold but stuffy bed-sitting room littered with cigarette ends and half-empty cups of tea, a man in a moth-eaten dressing-grown sits at a rickety table, trying to find room for his typewriter am

2006-09-11 02:54:00 626

转载 How the Poor Die

In the year 1929 I spent several weeks in the Hôpital X, in the fifteenth arrondissement of Paris. The clerks put me through the usual third-degree at the reception desk, and indeed I was kept answe

2006-09-11 02:53:00 924

转载 Decline of the English Murder

It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your

2006-09-11 02:52:00 803

转载 The Prevention of Literature

About a year ago I attended a meeting of the P.E.N. Club, the occasion being the tercentenary of Miltons Aeropagitica — a pamphlet, it may be remembered, in defense of freedom of the press. Milton

2006-09-11 02:51:00 901

转载 Such, Such Were The Joys

ISoon after I arrived at St Cyprians (not immediately, but after a week or two, just when I seemed to be settling into the routine of school life) I began wetting my bed. I was now aged eig

2006-09-11 02:50:00 7077

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