人生的枷锁 Signet Classics: Of Human Bondage

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 704 pages

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint:Signet Classics

ISBN:9780451530172

Published:2 Jan 2007

Weight:328g

Dimensions:109 x 175 x 39 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《人生的枷锁》是毛姆的代表作，具有明显的自传色彩。

小说主人公菲利普·凯里自幼父母双亡，不幸又先天残疾，在冷漠而陌生的环境中度过了童年，性格因此孤僻而敏感。在寄宿学校度过的岁月让他饱受了不合理的学校制度的摧残，而当他走入社会后，又在爱情上经历了伤痛。在坎坷的人生道路上，他每跨一步，都要付出艰辛的挣扎，但思想和个性都独立不羁的凯里，一直努力挣脱小市民意识这两条禁锢自己精神的桎梏，力图在混沌纷扰的生活漩流中，寻求人生的真谛。

A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham’s own career.

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and affair which very nearly ruins him.

作者简介

威廉·萨默赛特·毛姆（William Somerset Maugham）于1874年1月25日出生在巴黎。父亲是律师，当时在英国驻法使馆供职。小毛姆不满十岁，父母就先后去世，他被送回英国由伯父抚养。毛姆进坎特伯雷皇家公学之后，由于身材矮小，且严重口吃，经常受到大孩子的欺凌和折磨，有时还遭到冬烘学究的无端羞辱。孤寂凄清的童年生活，在他稚嫩的心灵上投下了痛苦的阴影，养成他孤僻、敏感、内向的性格。幼年的经历对他的世界观和文学创作产生了深刻的影响。

1892年初，他去德国海德堡大学学习了一年。在那儿，他接触到德国哲学史家昆诺·费希尔的哲学思想和以易卜生为代表的新戏剧潮流。同年返回英国，在伦敦一家会计师事务所当了六个星期的练习生，随后即进伦敦圣托马斯医学院学医。为期五年的习医生涯，不仅使他有机会了解到底层人民的生活状况，而且使他学会用解剖刀一样冷峻、犀利的目光来剖视人生和社会。他的一部小说《兰贝斯的丽莎》，正是根据他从医实习期间的所见所闻写成的。

从1897年起，毛姆弃医专事文学创作。在接下来的几年里，他写了若干部小说，但是，用毛姆自己的话来说，其中没有一部能够“使泰晤士河起火“。他转向戏剧创作，获得成功，成了红极一时的剧作家，伦敦舞台竟同时上演他的四个剧本。他的第十个剧本《弗雷德里克夫人》连续上演达一年之久。这种空前的盛况，据说只有知名剧作家肖伯纳才能与之比肩。但是辛酸的往事，梦魇似地郁积在他心头，不让他有片刻的安宁，越来越强烈地要求他去表现，去创作。他决定暂时中断戏剧创作，用两年时间潜心写作酝酿已久的小说《人生的枷锁》。

William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, 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 a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. 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. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. His first play, A Man of Honour, was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey.

His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His other works include travel books such as On a Screen, and Don Fernando, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook.

In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965.