詹姆斯· 希尔顿( James
Hilton,1900—1954),英国著名畅销书作家,因创作以香格里拉为主题的小说《消失的地平线》闻名于世。1900 年9 月9
日生于英格兰,青年时代曾就读于剑桥大学,1954 年12 月20 日因癌症在美国去世。
目錄:
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
EPILOGUE
內容試閱:
Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the
disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have
met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they
had believed they had. Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of
the Embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at
Tempelhof—not very cheerfully, I fancied, but with the equanimity
which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such occasions. It
seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate
Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and
I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of
priggishness which I remembered in Wyland Tertius had not
diminished with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had
ripened well out of the skinny, precocious infant whom I had once
alternately bullied and patronized. The probability that he was
making much more money and having a more interesting life than
either of us,gave Wyland and me our one mutual emotion—a touch of
envy.
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