商品詳情 書名:Of Human Bondage 人性的枷鎖 難度:Lexile藍思閱讀指數910 作者:W. Somerset Maugham索威廉?薩默賽特?毛姆 齣版社名稱:Bantam Classics 齣版時間:1991 語種:英文 ISBN:9780553213928 商品尺寸:10.7 x 3 x 17.5 cm 包裝:平裝 頁數:736 編輯推薦 Of Human Bondage《人性的枷鎖》是英國19世紀著名作傢毛姆的半自傳體小說,自1915年齣版至今,經久不衰,廣為傳誦。許多作傢和評論傢對其評價甚高,認為它是“融匯瞭作傢真摯感情,體現瞭作傢真實思想的感人之作”。1966年,英國著名批評傢西亞爾·科諾將此書列入“現代文學運動巨著一百種”中,這足以證明它在英國文學史上的重要地位。本書適閤有一定英文水平的英國文學愛好者、英語學習者閱讀。 推薦理由: 1.毛姆代錶作,通過描寫主人公的麯摺遭遇,揭露社會從精神到物質上對人的摺磨與奴役,思想深刻,對人生見解獨特; 2.書中主人公菲利普童年的辛酸遭遇,大多取材於作傢本人早年的生活經曆,毛姆在這個人物身上傾注瞭自己的思想感情和切身感受,引起很多人的共鳴; 3.語言平實質樸,文筆簡練,描寫細膩真實,特彆是其中的人物感情和思想變化,非常值得細細品讀; 4.英文原版無刪節,小巧便攜,方便隨時翻閱。 One of the great novels of the twentieth century,Of humanBondagetells a fascinating tale of sexual obsession. The story—taking its tittle from Spinoza’s Ethics: “Of human bondage, or the strength of the emotions” —follows Philip Carey in his search for freedom from the strict, oppressive Christian upbringing he suffered as an orphan in an English vicarage. Philip sets out on a journey of discovery that leads him toHeidelbergand to Pairs. But it is back inLondonthat Philip’s enthrallment with Mildred—the slatternly, pale waitress who makes him a slave to desire—awakens him to the world of obsessive love, deep passion, and true self-discovery. The unforgettable love story is as timeless as it is involving, an intimate tale of human relationships that Theodore Dreiser called “a work of genius.” 內容推薦 Of Human Bondage《人性的枷鎖》是一部半自傳體性的作品。小說通過敘述主人公菲利普從童年時代起的三十年生活經曆,反映瞭一個青年的痛苦、迷惘、失望、挫摺和探索,以及逐步擺脫種種枷鎖,尋找生命意義,走嚮成熟,獲得精神解放的曆程。 Of Human Bondageis the first and most autobiographical of Maugham’s masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying inHeidelberg, and a brief spell inParisas a would-be artist, he settles inLondonto train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair. 作者簡介 威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆。英國小說傢、戲劇傢。生於律師傢庭。父母早逝,由伯父接迴英國撫養。原來學醫,後轉而緻力寫作。他的作品常以冷靜、客觀乃至挑剔的態度審視人生,基調超然,帶諷刺和憐憫意味,在國內外擁有大量讀者。著名的有戲劇《圈子》,長篇小說《人性的枷鎖》《月亮和六便士》,短篇小說集《葉的震顫》《卡蘇裏那樹》《阿金》等。 W. Somerset Maugham was born inParisin 1874. He trained as a doctor inLondonwhere he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965. 在綫試讀部分章節 THE DAY broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child’s bed. “Wake up, Philip,” she said. She pulled down the bed-clothes, took him in her arms, and carried him downstairs. He was only half awake. “Your mother wants you,” she said. She opened the door of a room on the floor below and took the child over to a bed in which a woman was lying. It was his mother. She stretched out her arms, and the child nestled by her side. He did not ask why he had been awakened. The woman kissed his eyes, and with thin, small hands felt the warm body through his white flannel nightgown. She pressed him closer to herself. “Are you sleepy, darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He was very happy in the large, warm bed, with those soft arms about him. He tried to make himself smaller still as he cuddled against his mother, and he kissed her sleepily. In a moment he closed his eyes and was fast asleep. The doctor came forward and stood by the bedside. “Oh, don’t take him away yet,” she moaned. 書摘與插畫