No Signposts in the Seathe writer & the narrator2021/6/301 born1892Knole Castle2021/6/302 born18921913gets married with Harold Nicholsonsame-sex relationshipVirginia WoolfOrlandoborn18922021/6/303 born18921913gets marriedthe Hawthorndon Prize19271933the Hawthorndon Prize2021/6/304 born18921913gets marriedthe Hawthorndon Prize1927dies19621933the Hawthorndon Prize1961No Signposts in the Sea2021/6/305 V. Sackville- West•A prolific（多产的） writer•One of the Britain’s promising young writers in the 1920s2021/6/306 Well known novels Heritage (1919) Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour (1932) The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921) Family History (1932) The Heir (1922) The Dark Island (1934) Challenge (1923) Grand Canyon (1942) Grey Waters (1923) Devil at Westease (1947) Seducers in Ecuador (1924) The Easter Party (1953) Passenger to Teheran (1926) The Edwardians (1930) All Passion Spent (1931) The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Künstler (1932)No Signposts in the Sea (1961)2021/6/307 Well known novelsThe Edwardians (1930) 《爱德华时代》All Passion Spent (1931) 《耗尽的激情》2021/6/308 PoetryChatterton (1909)A Dancing Elf (1912)Constantinople: Eight Poems (1915)Poems of West and East (1917)Orchard and Vineyard (1921)The Land (1926) ( the Hawthornden Prize in 1927)King's Daughter (1929)Sissinghurst (1931)Invitation to Cast out Care (1931)Collected Poems ( the Hawthornden Prize in 1933)Solitude (1938)The Garden (1946)She became the first writer who won the award twice successively.2021/6/309 Biographies/Other works•Passenger to Teheran ( 1926)•Knole and the Sackvilles (1922)•Saint Joan of Arc (1936)•Pepita (1937)•The Eagle and The Dove (1943)•Twelve Days2021/6/3010 Writing features•Stream of consciousness2021/6/3011 BackgroundBackgroundNo Signposts in the SeaThe novel was written by Sackville-West.It was in the form of a journal narrated by Edmund Carr.2021/6/3012 BackgroundBackgroundSackville-West's illnessSackville-West's cruise2021/6/3013 BackgroundBackgroundThe novel was first published in 1961. It was Vita Sackville-West's final novel before her death in 1962, and it was a fitting farewell.2021/6/3014 BackgroundBackgroundSackville-West spent several months each year with her husband, Harold Nicolson, cruising the Mediterranean, the Pacific or the West India. 2021/6/3015 In the novel Edmund Carr also had a short time to live. He decided to leave his job and took a Pacific cruise.So, the cruise in the novel was based on the cruise that Sackville-West took in 1959. BackgroundBackground2021/6/3016 BackgroundBackgroundThe novel revealed Sackville-West’s opinions and thoughts about love, marriage and ideal relationship: mutual respect, independence, separate bedrooms and the same sense of values. 2021/6/3017 The Narrator of the No Signposts in the SeaHe is seriously ill, and has a limited time to live so he decides to have a voyage on the sea to experience another kind of free and easy life.Who is the narrator?Edmund Carr, a middle aged journalist who wrote political articles, a political commentator2021/6/3018 The Narrator of the No Signposts in the SeaChanges happen to the narrator2021/6/3019 The Narrator of the No Signposts in the SeaChanges happen to the narrator2021/6/3020 The Narrator of the No Signposts in the SeaChanges happen to the narrator2021/6/3021 The Theme of the No Signposts in the Sea 2021/6/3022 Thank you !2021/6/3023 结束语结束语若有不当之处，请指正，谢谢！若有不当之处，请指正，谢谢！ 。
