Up at the Villa

威廉·萨姆塞特·毛姆（1874—1965），英国著名作家，被誉为“最会讲故事的作家”，整个英语世界最畅销的作家之一。毛姆是一位成功的多产作家，在长篇小说、短篇小说和戏剧领域里都有建树。不过毛姆本人对自己的评价却很谦虚：“我只不过是二流作家中排在前面的一个。” 毛姆最知名、最畅销的小说《人性的枷锁》（1915）在其去世前的销量就已超过了一千万册。除长篇外，毛姆还是一个出色的短篇小说家，他的短篇小说有一百多部。1946年，毛姆设立了萨姆塞特·毛姆奖，奖励优秀的年轻作家，鼓励 并资助他们到各处旅游。1952年，牛津大学授予毛姆名誉博士学位。1954年，英王室授予他“荣誉侍从”称号。1965年12月16日毛姆在法国尼斯去逝。

出版者:Vintage Books

作者:W. Somerset Maugham

页数:209

出版时间:2000-4-11

价格:GBP 11.89

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780375724626

图书标签:毛姆W.S.Maugham英国爱情小说英文小說英文外国文学

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger. And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered. For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion. Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings. Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.

读后感

1.When the fruit trees were in blossom and when the poplars burst into leaf, their fresh colour crying aloud amid the grey evergreen of the olives, she had felt a lightness of spirit she had thought never to feel again. 当果树开花、白杨木绽放叶片，那些清新...  

我希望本书内部人士或编辑在此，我手头的是一本初版的，请问如下问题： 　　　　英文部分，标点符号中半句话后的逗号，都是放在了引号之外，如："here we are",said Marry. （156页）问题是：我认为这不是英文的习惯表达方式，而参考了其他毛姆的原文作品，类似地方，全是放入...  

一面湖水，慌忙间搅乱它，结果什么也看不清。 可当你不去触动时才发现，其实它原本就很清澈。 她历经着四个男人，死去的前夫， 艾格，卡尔，罗利。 卡尔得到短暂的欢愉后，因为失去或恐得不到就自杀。 艾格保持严谨，信守承诺，只是得知真相后的故作镇定让她失望。 罗利，顽世...  

用户评价

一个女人和三个男人的故事

挺好玩的其实 "Darling that is what life is for - to take risks."

Goodbye until when?

很有趣的故事啊，内心戏好重。哎呀当我们谈论爱情的时候 我们在谈论些什么

一个女人和三个男人的故事