William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at Kings School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writers Notebook.
In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965
Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham’s masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.
没想到菲利普终于过上了幸福生活,起码到作者停笔那会是。这些天断断续续旁观这个人的故事,差不多以为他要孤苦终老。结尾让人意外,肥皂剧的味道多少有点突兀。 每逢遇到“半自传体”,想象力都会掺水,因为作者自己也没法不把读者引入他的经历。菲利普和毛姆的轨迹如出一辙...
评分一、毛姆爷爷,我竟没有早点认出你? 过去三天,除了必须出现在教室,除了吃饭睡觉,我把几乎所有的时间花在毛姆爷爷的大作上,一天一本,一口气读完了《月亮》、《刀锋》、《枷锁》。作为一枚资深小说发烧友,我为无数小说疯狂过,可是从来没有一个作家让我如此动情。 更可...
评分 评分继《月亮与六便士》,《刀锋》以后,又一鼓作气把《人生的枷锁》看完了。毛姆的文笔简练,冷静中透着幽默,读起来如行云流水,实足是一种享受。 但我非要为《人生的枷锁》写上一篇评论的原因,恰恰是因为这是三者中最令我感到痛苦的一本书。这种痛苦源自于对生活真相毫不掩饰...
所谓枷锁不过是自己、周遭及社会所赋予的及预期会被赋予各类评价,或正面,或负面,挣脱这些枷锁重回自由状态,其实是自我和解的过程。
评分一口气才读完30%,这口气不要憋得太长…读毛叔这本书,就好像真的跟着主人公经历了他的一个一个人生阶段,非常写实,主人公的成长也是循序渐进,没有所谓的性格突变,只有理所当然。
评分痛苦的时候更要读毛姆,但读毛姆是脱离不了我本性的肤浅的
评分毛姆自己也很惊奇这本出版后默默无闻的书多年后在美帝诈尸了。像战争与和平一样又长又累赘,且视角单一。海德堡求学时期完全在写别人的故事,连男主都消失了;巴黎时期也很杂,偶有点睛评论;直到男主的灾星女出现,故事才毛姆起来,一口气读得下去了。我很能理解作者自己并不看好写出来完全只是为了心理解脱的感受,跟我写完长篇不带图的法兰西游记是完全一样的。
评分刚开始不喜欢男主人公,觉得他眼高手低,自以为是,性格软弱,但越到后面越希望他能找到幸福。
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