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.
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...
評分没想到菲利普终于过上了幸福生活,起码到作者停笔那会是。这些天断断续续旁观这个人的故事,差不多以为他要孤苦终老。结尾让人意外,肥皂剧的味道多少有点突兀。 每逢遇到“半自传体”,想象力都会掺水,因为作者自己也没法不把读者引入他的经历。菲利普和毛姆的轨迹如出一辙...
評分十岁出头,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...
the best of youth 2
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
评分It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
评分我對文學實在是太提不起興趣瞭,對於我來說文學書籍就是一堆無意義的符號堆砌齣來的總集,我總是對這些所謂的文學作品錶現齣不可名狀的抗拒與不耐煩,可毛姆的小說對我來說有一種特殊的吸引力,讀到上頭瞭就很難停下來。
评分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????
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