Maurice Guest joins Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, as the lyrical sweep of Richardson's prose reveals every intimate tremor felt by a human heart obsessed with the love of another. Carmen Callil

理查森以其抒情的笔触摹状了痴迷于爱情的心灵所感受到的每一次隐秘的震颤，《莫里斯·格斯特》也由此而得以跻身于《包法利夫人》、《安娜·卡列尼娜》之列。

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We have grown up, don't blindly obsessed with those sad stories any longer. Life is heavy enough, we shouldn't have to add an extra burden heart.

长大了，不再一味迷恋那些过分悲情的故事，生活的本真已经足够沉重，不该再为心灵增添额外的负担。

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For decades, he had been obsessed with breaking up or privatising Japan's postal system, which sounds a strange obsession but actually lies at the heart of the country's financial and political distortions.

ECONOMIST: It deserves, for Japan's sake, to be rewarded