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.
作者:hifate 链接:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/21264115 来源:知乎 著作权归作者所有。商业转载请联系作者获得授权,非商业转载请注明出处。 想说的太多,思维太乱,胸中还是激动难抑。一定要先说声谢谢,给肯定、帮助过我的所有人。 起初要译这本书前,我犹豫了很久,...
评分1 枷锁 《人性的枷锁》是一个讲主人公菲利普如何抛弃人生的种种枷锁,终于获得精神自由的故事。菲利普天生患有腿疾,父母早亡,小小年纪被送去古板守旧的伯父家寄养。作为神父的伯父对小菲利普并无亲爱之情,为人自私冷漠,造成了这个早熟的孩子愈加敏感害羞的个性。菲利普的...
Rereading Maugham. / reread in 2016, still one of my all time favorite books, now even better since I know the London geography.
评分没有找到中国画报出版社的发行版,此封面与之最为相近。 缺陷的存在,可以督促时刻保持自省能力。 一个gentlman三十岁的人生之后,并非从从容容但也初具规模了。
评分Normal is the rarest thing
评分主要是孤独吧,因此可以理解 Philip 与 Mildred 之间的情感纠葛。以前读译本时还奇怪P为什么选择了结婚,现在在读了一串毛姆的小说后我觉得毛姆还是有那么几年向往婚姻、渴望被爱、远离孤独。所以他把结局收成了结婚,也算他了结了他的念想吧。另外毛姆后来弃医从文,因此P从医后的故事他也不能写、不好写了,点到为止即可。P或毛姆真的是很孤独,全书的高频单词就是 Solitary.
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
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