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.
看毛姆的小说《人生的枷锁》,一直想到那句话,人生而自由,却无往不在枷锁之中。 《人生的枷锁》是自传体性质的小说,主人公菲利普身上,有着毛姆的影子。自小成为孤儿,身体残疾,在冷酷无情的牧师大伯家中长大。在学校里受到同学、老师的嘲笑和欺侮,养成了孤僻、内向、敏...
評分这是本庞杂的书,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...
評分在毛姆的自传体小说《人生的枷锁》中,主人公菲利普孜孜不倦地追求生活的真谛。他先是经历了信仰的破灭,继而又在非道德主义者克朗肖的引导下抛弃了道德,确立了“为所欲为”的行事准则。然而在这之后,他并没有获得他所料想的自由,反而陷入了更深的虚无危机。最终,菲利普悟...
評分一年前,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...
評分15岁的时候,我读到了这本书。 其中这一段,直到今天我也不敢重看。 “你具有某种手工上的灵巧,经过刻苦努力和坚持不懈,没有理由成不了一个认真的,还算能干的画家。你能够找到数以百计比你画得差的人,也可以找到数以百计画得同你不相上下的人。在你让我看的所有画作中我看...
憑藉著一點點可憐的英文知識,來感受毛姆作品“通俗”的魅力。令人奇異的是,或許因為讀的慢,反而記得清楚。。讀的時候,我不停迴想起小學之前讀《齊天大聖》那種感受‘哦,我認識這個詞的,我知道這句話是什麼意思’t t????
评分看時不停地問自己:如果十年前讀瞭這本書,今天我的命運將如何?
评分看時不停地問自己:如果十年前讀瞭這本書,今天我的命運將如何?
评分cried over the ending。。。 據說有這麼三本關於成長的書必讀:毛姆的《人生的枷鎖》、羅曼·羅蘭《約翰·剋裏斯朵夫》和黑塞的《玻璃球遊戲》。第一本真是名不虛傳啊我去!後麵兩本先省著,過幾年再看吧。
评分又臭又長 字裏行間充滿瞭Gay毛兄對自己的憐惜.....《刀鋒》寫的辣麼給勁 看來egoism是非天纔作傢的大忌
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