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The Painted Veil

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W. Somerset Maugham
Vintage; Reprint edition
2004-2-10
256
USD 13.95
Paperback
9781400034215

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Shallow, poorly educated Kitty marries the passionate and intellectual Walter Fane and has an affair with a career politician, Charles Townsend, assistant colonial secretary of Hong Kong. When Walter discovers the relationship, he compels Kitty to accompany him to a cholera-infested region of mainland China, where she finds limited happiness working with children at a convent. But when Walter dies, she is forced to leave China and return to England. Generally abandoned, she grasps desperately for the affection of her one remaining relative, her long-ignored father. In the end, in sharp, unexamined contrast to her own behavior patterns, she asserts that her unborn daughter will grow up to be an independent woman. The Painted Veil was first published in 1925 and is usually described as a strong story about a woman's spiritual journey. To more pragmatic, modern eyes, Kitty's emotional growth appears minimal. Still, if not a major feminist work, the book has literary interest. Sophie Ward's uninflected reading is competent if not compelling.

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著者简介

William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors achieving recognition as the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s.

Commercial success with high book sales, successful play productions and a string of film adaptations, backed by astute stock market investments, allowed Maugham to live a very comfortable life. Small and weak as a boy, Maugham had been proud even then of his stamina, and as an adult he kept churning out the books, proud that he could.

Yet, despite his triumphs, he never attracted the highest respect from the critics or his peers. Maugham himself attributed this to his lack of "lyrical quality", his small vocabulary and failure to make expert use of metaphor in his work.

It seems equally likely that Maugham was underrated because he wrote in such a direct style. There was nothing in a book by Maugham that the reading public needed explained to them by critics. Maugham thought clearly, wrote lucidly, and expressed acerbic and sometimes cynical opinions in handsome, civilized prose. He wrote in a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and won critical acclaim. In this context, his writing was criticized as "such a tissue of clichés that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way"[16].

Maugham's homosexual leanings also shaped his fiction, in two ways. Since, in life, he tended to see attractive women as sexual rivals, he often gave the women of his fiction sexual needs and appetites, in a way quite unusual for distinguished authors of his time. "Liza of Lambeth," "Cakes and Ale" and "The Razor's Edge" all featured women determined to service their strong sexual appetites, heedless of the result.

Also, the fact that Maugham's own sexual appetites were highly disapproved of, or even criminal, in nearly all of the countries in which he traveled, made Maugham unusually tolerant of the vices of others. Readers and critics often complained that Maugham did not clearly enough condemn what was bad in the villains of his fiction and plays. Maugham replied in 1938: "It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me."

Maugham's public account of his abilities remained modest; toward the end of his career he described himself as "in the very first row of the second-raters". In 1954, he was made a Companion of Honour.

Maugham had begun collecting theatrical paintings before the First World War and continued to the point where his collection was second only to that of the Garrick Club[17]. In 1948 he announced that he would bequeath this collection to the Trustees of the National Theatre, and from 1951, some 14 years before his death, it began its exhibition life and in 1994 they were placed on loan to the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.


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听外文书第二本 嗯反复了很多次 经典桥段到总是能第一次就捕捉到听清楚 练听力任重而道远啊

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alas..

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与电影的爱情和救赎的主题相比,书更像是一个女性的自我觉醒

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毛姆笔触真的很冷静犀利,但是书中的人物一个都不喜欢。感觉毛姆笔下的男人都是一个类型啊。

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这种“无法逃避的命运”的话题真是被毛姆偏爱啊,所以其实全书也是Kitty揭开面纱的过程吧。说真的最后实在是过于诚实了。

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如果说旅行对于写作者来说,是一次难得的机遇,那么这个机遇对于当时的毛姆来说,真的是一次修心之旅。是旅行让他见识了这个世界不同国家的地方,也让他找到了不同的灵感,写下了许多优秀作品。 在毛姆所在的年代,不论是当时的英国还是法国亦或者远在大洋彼岸的中国,都是混乱...  

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2016年4月12日凌晨1点19分,有好几件事情混杂在一起:①困 ②刚刚过去的××岁生日 ③毛姆的《面纱》昨天付梓印刷 ④这篇毫无头绪的文章。这些纷杂无序的事情同时出现在这一精确的时间点上,也许包含着某种隐喻。正如《面纱》开篇所说的:“那描画的面纱,芸芸众生称之...  

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在看这本书的前90%的过程,我都在想凯蒂怎么可以如此的愚蠢,可是看到最后,我瞬间想通了,释然了。 这世界上形形色色的人,每个人有着不同的价值观世界观人生观,这些观点与他们的生活环境、从小到大的教育息息相关,怎么能够奢求每个人都和自己的想法一样呢。这本书讲述的故...  

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