圖書標籤: 傳記 毛姆 Maugham 英文原版 人物 英國文學 英國 外文
发表于2024-12-22
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage.
Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood spent with unloving relatives after the death of his parents, a trauma that resulted in shyness, a stammer, and for the rest of his life an urgent need for physical tenderness. Here, too, are his adult triumphs on the stage and page, works that allowed him a glittering social life in which he befriended and sometimes fell out with such luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, D. H. Lawrence, and Winston Churchill.
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham portrays in full for the first time Maugham’s disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, a manipulative society woman of dubious morality who trapped Maugham with a pregnancy and an attempted suicide. Hastings also explores Maugham’s many affairs with men, including his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer and a cad. Maugham’s courageous work in secret intelligence during two world wars is described in fascinating detail—experiences that provided the inspiration for the groundbreaking Ashenden stories. From the West End to Broadway, from China to the South Pacific, Maugham’s restless and remarkably productive life is thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers the real stories behind such classics as “Rain,” The Painted Veil, Cakes & Ale, and other well-known tales.
An epic biography of a hugely talented and hugely conflicted man, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham is the definitive account of Maugham’s extraordinary life.
賽琳娜•黑斯廷斯Selina Hastings,英國著名傳記作傢,英國最高文學奬布剋奬評委。曾在The Daily Telegraph任職記者,後從事文學創作,已齣版多部名人傳記。已齣版的主要作品有《南希•米特福德傳》、《伊夫林•沃傳》、《毛姆傳——薩默塞特•毛姆的秘密生活》,等等。
譯者介紹
趙文偉,專職譯者,已齣版譯作三十餘本。主要譯作有卡爾維諾《瘋狂的奧蘭多》、卡斯頓•勒鬍《歌劇魅影》、阿加莎•剋裏斯蒂《寓所謎案》、《ABC謀殺案》,羅大裏童話係列、瑪麗亞•特蕾莎•安德魯埃托《少年斯特法諾》、亞當•威廉姆斯《慈禧的麵子》等。
一本好的人物傳記應該是可以起到消除崇拜心理的作用的吧?努力是比天分更值得欣賞的個人特質,看完沒有更喜歡這個自稱二流作傢裏的一流作傢,但是有更欣賞。
評分非常好的毛姆傳記,史料豐富,態度客觀,文筆也漂亮。
評分非常好的毛姆傳記,史料豐富,態度客觀,文筆也漂亮。
評分247.看的時候滿腦子想著怎麼齣去玩……毛姆的晚年好不容易……人紅是非多啊……
評分非常好的毛姆傳記,史料豐富,態度客觀,文筆也漂亮。
在1938年出版的自传性写作《总结》中,萨默塞特·毛姆回忆了从一名成功的剧作家转型为小说家的缘由:“不知道是不是成功并没带来我期望的一切,也不知道是不是对成功的自然反应:当我刚刚稳固地奠定了自己流行剧作家的地位时,我昔日生活的点滴回忆立即涌上心头让我苦恼不已。...
評分毛姆在生前除了写小说和戏本外,最重要的是写了很多文学评论,作为著名的小说家,他写的文学评论与学院那种理论分析不同,他会先描写作家的逸闻,然后对于文学作品进行点评。这种文学评论比他的小说并不差,而且作家的逸闻写得就像小说一样好看,里面充斥着各种各样的八卦。也...
評分如果有个“世界上活得最肆意妄为的人”的比赛,毛姆肯定要排到前五名。 孤僻、口吃、弃医从文、剧作家、间谍、密使、双性恋、最畅销的通俗小说家……这些仅仅是毛姆众多标签中的几个。从小父母双亡,这位寄人篱下的孩子无论是在家里还是在学校都饱受欺凌。所幸他还有文字相伴...
評分 評分如果有个“世界上活得最肆意妄为的人”的比赛,毛姆肯定要排到前五名。 孤僻、口吃、弃医从文、剧作家、间谍、密使、双性恋、最畅销的通俗小说家……这些仅仅是毛姆众多标签中的几个。从小父母双亡,这位寄人篱下的孩子无论是在家里还是在学校都饱受欺凌。所幸他还有文字相伴...
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024