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Martin Boyd
Brenda Niall
其他書名
A Life
出版Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 2004-06-15
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / General
ISBN05228770019780522877007
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=s7mvEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by World War I. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life. Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, and an old famly house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expatriates in Rome. In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before World War I, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.