From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.
William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) studied medicine, but the quick success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), started him on his lifelong literary career, during which he would become one of the most popular English authors since Dickens. His own life, however, was more tragic, shocking, and fascinating than any novel. After his adored parents died, he grew up in a miserable vicarage and suffered from a physical handicap of which he was ashamed. During his lifetime, Maugham would marry and divorce, be sent to Russia as a spy, and entertain such celebrities as Jean Cocteau, Winston Churchill, Noël Coward, the Aga Khan, and Ian Fleming at his Riviera mansion. Among his masterpieces are Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil, The Razor’s Edge, and The Moon and Sixpence. In addition, such works as “The Letter” and “Rain” established Maugham as a gifted short story writer.
Benjamin DeMott (1924–2005) was professor of English and the Mellon professor of humanities at Amherst College. The author of two novels, he was best known for his cultural criticism in leading periodicals and in such books as The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can’t Think Straight About Class and The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can’t Think Straight About Race.
Maeve Binchy (1940–2012) was the New York Times bestselling author of Quentins, Scarlet Feather, Tara Road (an Oprah’s Book Club Selection), Circle of Friends, Light a Penny Candle, and many other novels.
这是本庞杂的书,看得甚是痛苦,看完了很久了,现在还是没有摆脱这种痛苦。它不停地提问,每个问题都值得想很久。我没有办法在一篇读感中穷尽它所带给我的思考,我也没有办法穷尽这本书所撩起的问题,可有的时候,它让我觉得有些开朗,让我觉得生活不再有太多的压力。请容我...
评分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The reading through of Maugham’s Of Human Bondage is quite an odyssey, full of tumults, jammed with details, and endless. When I finally finished the 628-page novel (definitely the longest one I’ve ever finished) yesterday morning I found myself somewha...
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...
在野味肺炎肆虐的时候看完了。
评分The simplest pattern, that in which a man was born, worked, married, had children, and died, was likewise the most perfect.
评分三年后重新读英文。
评分凭借着一点点可怜的英文知识,来感受毛姆作品“通俗”的魅力。令人奇异的是,或许因为读的慢,反而记得清楚。。读的时候,我不停回想起小学之前读《齐天大圣》那种感受‘哦,我认识这个词的,我知道这句话是什么意思’t t????
评分意犹未尽
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