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.
发表于2024-05-14
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十岁出头,你看了《约翰克里斯多夫》,辗转反侧,浮想联翩。为英雄的浪漫主义精神而深受感动,你幼小的心灵预设了未来的人生必然荆棘丛生,而人的伟大精神必然冲破困难,破云而上,即便失败也充满悲剧意味。你觉得理想的人生应该这样度过。 你收听贝多芬的英雄交响曲,以及柴可...
评分一 我们活着,就是要用心去感受这个世界。 读毛姆的书,就好像和一个老朋友聊天。他很擅长讲故事,也描述得相当经常精彩。你仿佛看到一个沉着稳重的老者,不慌不忙地娓娓道来。他侃侃而谈,从容不迫。从不过多的解释,也无需太多修饰。一句话,一个词,蓦然地让你领会他全部的...
评分这是本庞杂的书,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...
评分一 我们活着,就是要用心去感受这个世界。 读毛姆的书,就好像和一个老朋友聊天。他很擅长讲故事,也描述得相当经常精彩。你仿佛看到一个沉着稳重的老者,不慌不忙地娓娓道来。他侃侃而谈,从容不迫。从不过多的解释,也无需太多修饰。一句话,一个词,蓦然地让你领会他全部的...
评分一年前,我在巴黎回布鲁塞尔的地下大巴站,La Defense,那个荷兰杂技场工人坐到了我旁边。他让我想起豪夫童话里黑森林的“荷兰鬼”,高而黑瘦,尽显沧桑的脸,穿着古怪的菱格喇叭裤和猎人背心,背后一个沉重的大包。然而他用比整个圣日耳曼区的人都标准的英语向我问好。 大巴...
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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.
看时不停地问自己:如果十年前读了这本书,今天我的命运将如何?
评分‘He had lived always in the future, and the present always, always has slipped through his finger.' 'Forgive them, for they know not what they do.'
评分The simplest pattern, that in which a man was born, worked, married, had children, and died, was likewise the most perfect.
评分人生中重要的几个道理 三十年的人生跟毛姆走一回 梳理清楚了很多东西—当我发现人生不过是passage,我不再害怕失去,离别和失败。failures unimportant,success amounted to nothing。live and be alive。
评分The simplest pattern, that in which a man was born, worked, married, had children, and died, was likewise the most perfect.
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