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.
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.
發表於2025-02-07
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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...
評分在生活麵前,我們每個人都可以找到理由做個弱者。 最近聽瞭太多“社會迫害女性”的言論,有些反感。因為在我看來,迫害也分絕對迫害和相對迫害,暴力相嚮,長期的幽禁,肉體的淩辱,這些都算絕對傷害,但是什麼所謂的媒體輿論,七姑八姨的閑話也算迫害,那有點弱者心態太過瞭...
評分看毛姆的小說《人生的枷鎖》,一直想到那句話,人生而自由,卻無往不在枷鎖之中。 《人生的枷鎖》是自傳體性質的小說,主人公菲利普身上,有著毛姆的影子。自小成為孤兒,身體殘疾,在冷酷無情的牧師大伯傢中長大。在學校裏受到同學、老師的嘲笑和欺侮,養成瞭孤僻、內嚮、敏...
評分《人生的枷鎖》,是這學期一開始就準備看的小說。看看停停,持續瞭好長時間,終於在前兩天一鼓作氣看完。小說是菲利普的成長史,也是菲利普擺脫枷鎖束縛,走嚮充實和獲取生活真諦的曆程。它是一部講述成長的小說,也是自我突破和自我實現的小說。人生的枷鎖,在菲利普的故事裏...
評分在毛姆的自傳體小說《人生的枷鎖》中,主人公菲利普孜孜不倦地追求生活的真諦。他先是經曆瞭信仰的破滅,繼而又在非道德主義者剋朗肖的引導下拋棄瞭道德,確立瞭“為所欲為”的行事準則。然而在這之後,他並沒有獲得他所料想的自由,反而陷入瞭更深的虛無危機。最終,菲利普悟...
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bondage翻譯成羈絆更好吧 生老病死 七情六欲 愛情的麯摺 人生意義的思索 Philippe Carey就是你 就是我
評分the best of youth 2
評分Like a spoiler to my own life ;)
評分居然是小說
評分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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