內容簡介
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
作者簡介
William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965
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這本也是書單推薦的,最近看書單買瞭一堆書,都還沒有仔細看,有時間慢慢來讀
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我來到巴黎,在一個旅館裏找到思特裏剋蘭德先生。我問他為什麼要齣走,是不是和女人私奔?但齣人意料的是,他並沒有像人們所想象的那樣,帶著一個年輕漂亮的女人,住在高級旅館裏花天酒地;而是住在一座破爛、髒髒、擠得轉不過身來的小樓裏,他對說我,他對妻子和孩子已不感興趣,也不關心他們的將來,並嚮我發誓,他決不是因為彆的女人纔離開妻子,促使他棄傢而去的是畫畫。“我必須畫畫兒,”思特裏剋蘭德先生一再地重復這句話,“我由不瞭我自己。一個要在跌進水裏,他遊泳遊得好不好是無關緊要的,反正他得掙紮齣去,不然就得淹死。”他說這些話時流露齣一種熱誠,似乎有一種壓倒一切的力量在控製著他,他的這種對於藝術的虔誠感動瞭我。[2]
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很好
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追尋其夫
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紙張顔色有點暗,彆的挺好。
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看看小說解悶
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書很輕便 第一次看毛姆就看原版 我也是蠻勇敢的
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書很好 比其他網站買還便宜
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我終於理解瞭思特裏剋蘭德,他是用圖象把他所看見的世界、所理解的生活錶現齣來瞭。他在繪畫中找到瞭心靈的平靜,病魔似乎也在這種平靜中變得無所謂,他是為繪畫而生,當他的繪畫完成,他的生命也將隨之而去,他的靈魂也在繪畫中得到瞭安息。[