书名：The Moon and Sixpence 月亮与六便士
作者：William Somerset Maugham
出版社名称：Vintage Classics 
出版时间：1999
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099284765
商品尺寸：12.9 x1.4 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：214 （以实物为准）

《月亮和六便士》是英国小说家威廉· 萨默赛特·毛姆的三大长篇力作之一，成书于1919年。毛姆，一个出生于法国的英国人，他是以戏剧成名的小说家，也是一个拥有博士学位的骑士，他在20世纪初，风靡了整个世纪和世界。他的这部小说问世后，以情节入胜、文字深刻在文坛轰动一时，人们争相传看。适合英语专业学生及想要提高英语阅读水平的读者品读。
推荐理由：
1.毛姆被誉为“英国的莫泊桑”，是二十世纪一位会讲故事的作家；
2.在这部小说里，毛姆用第一人称的叙述手法，借“我”之口，叙述了整个故事；
3.小说原型是法国印象派画家高更，这更增加了它的传奇色彩，受到了全世界读者的关注；
4.小说所揭示的逃避现实的主题，与西方许多人的追求相吻合，成为20世纪的流行小说；

5.英文原版无删减，有助于提高文学素养和英文水平。
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.

一个英国证券交易所的经纪人，本已有牢靠的职业和地位、美满的家庭，但却迷恋上绘画，像“被魔鬼附了体”，突然弃家出走，到巴黎去追求绘画的理想。他的行径没有人能够理解。他在异国不仅肉体受着贫穷和饥饿煎熬，而且为了寻找表现手法，精神亦在忍受痛苦折磨。经过一番离奇的遭遇后，主人公离开文明世界，远遁到与世隔绝的塔希提岛上。他终于找到灵魂的宁静和适合自己艺术气质的氛围。他同一个土著女子同居，创作出一幅又一幅使后世震惊的杰作。在他染上麻风病双目失明之前，曾在自己住房四壁画了一幅表现伊甸园的伟大作品。但在逝世之前，他却命令土著女子在他死后把这幅画作付之一炬。
Charles Strickland, a rather dull and uninspiring London stockbroker leaves his wife and possessions to go to France, and later Tahiti to follow an ambition to express himself in painting. This desire to paint soon implodes into obsession, with grave repercussions. His life ended tragically, but he left a legacy of genius.

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆，英国小说家、戏剧家。生于律师家庭。父母早死，由伯父接回英国抚养。原来学医，后转而致力写作。他的作品常以冷静、客观乃至挑剔的态度审视人生，基调超然，带讽刺和怜悯意味，在国内外拥有大量读者。著名的有戏剧《圈子》长篇小说《人生的枷锁》《月亮和六便士》，短篇小说集《叶的震颤》《卡苏里那树》《阿金》等。
William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. 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 ofThe 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 autobiographicalThe Summing Up andA Writer's Notebook. 

I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions. The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. The greatness of Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest. He disturbs and arrests. The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him. His faults are accepted as the necessary complement to his merits. It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice. The artist, painter, poet, or musician, by his decoration, sublime or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetic sense; but that is akin to the sexual instinct, and shares its barbarity: he lays before you also the greater gift of himself. To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story. It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character

书名：The Painted Veil 面纱
作者：W. Somerset Maugham威廉·萨默赛特·毛姆
出版社名称：Vintage Classics
出版时间：2009
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099286875
商品尺寸：13 x 1.5 x 20 cm
包装：平装
页数：240 （以实物为准）

The Painted Veil《面纱》是英国作家毛姆创作的一部女性精神觉醒经典之作，同时也是其具争议的一部作品。据作者自述，这是他“一部起于故事，而非发于人物的小说”；书名典出雪莱的诗篇《别揭开这五彩面纱》：“别揭开这五彩面纱，芸芸众生都管它叫生活……”

推荐理由：
1. 现实主义文学大师毛姆的“人性三部曲”之首；
2. 毛姆剖析人性的著作，女性精神觉醒的经典读本；
3.马尔克斯、村上春树、乔治·奥威尔、张爱玲、莫言、奈保尔一致推崇。

精彩书评：
“一对英国夫妇经历情感危机之后，来到中国内地的霍乱疫区救治病人与孤儿。上世纪二十年代的贵州湄潭政府缺席，社会松散，人情冷漠。小说中‘一盘散沙’的惨景至今仍然具有振聋发聩的力量。”——中国社科院文学研究所所长陆建德
“《面纱》以其悲天悯人的情感关照，以其对道德冲突的敏感解析，以其对人性的尖锐反讽，以其对人类欲望、恐惧和悔恨等内在世界的准确建构，而成为一部艺术的杰作。” ——《观察家》
“回首现代作家，毛姆给了我深刻的影响。”——乔治·奥威尔，《1984》作者
Review
“Reveals many of Maugham’s strengths: an understanding of women, meticulous craftsmanship and raw emotion” — Daily Mail
“A work of art” —Spectator
“An expert craftsman... His style is sharp, quick, subdued, casual” —New York Times

The Painted Veil《面纱》讲述了20年代一对年轻的英国夫妇来到中国乡村生活的故事，在这美丽却凶险的环境中，他们经历了在其英国家乡舒适生活中绝对无法想象和体验的情感波澜，并领悟到了爱与奉献的真谛。
故事以女主角吉蒂开篇，为了逃离20年代伦敦浮华却又空虚的社交圈，也为了防止自己变成一位老姑娘，吉蒂接受了沉默寡言的医生沃特·费恩的求婚。费恩在把吉蒂带到上海后，便迅速地投入到了他的细菌学研究中去。孤独的吉蒂和迷人的已婚男子查理·唐森发生了婚外情，当费恩发现时，他羞恨交加。为了报复，也为了重整自己的生活，费恩决定孤注一掷，带着吉蒂远走霍乱肆虐的偏远城镇。沃特从一尘不染的研究室走向了瘟疫流行的前线，他慢慢地协助控制了当地的疫情。吉蒂则开始在一家由法国修女住持的修道院兼医院中做义工，并逐渐找回了生活的勇气和意义。
在爱情、背叛与死亡的漩涡中挣扎的凯蒂，亲历了幻想破灭与生死离别之后，终将生活的面纱从她的眼前渐渐揭去，从此踏上了不悔的精神成长之路。
在毛姆的作品中，本书是很受读者欢迎却也为评论家所诟病的作品。小说在结尾让凯蒂意识到女人的一生不能只是为了和男人睡觉并依附于他——“弥足珍贵的是对责任的爱，当爱与责任合而为一，你就将是崇高的，你将享受无法言表的幸福。”——而在今天来看，这个结尾实在不够现实，也不够公平——没有人应为自己的错误永远背负十字架！
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...
First published to a storm of protest,The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman’s spiritual awakening.

书名：The Razor’s Edge 刀锋
作者：W. Somerset Maugham威廉·萨默赛特·毛姆
出版社名称：Vintage Classics
出版时间：2000
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099284864
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：352 （以实物为准）

The Razor’s Edge《刀锋》是英国作家毛姆创作的长篇小说，首次出版于1944年。小说写一个参加第1次世界大战的美国青年飞行员拉里·达雷尔。在军队中，拉里结识了一个爱尔兰好友：这人平时是那样一个生龙活虎般的置生死于度外的飞行员，但在一次遭遇战中，因为救拉里而中弹牺牲。拉里因此对人生感到迷惘，弄不懂世界上为什么有恶和不幸，拉里开始了他令人匪夷所思的转变。
《刀锋》的艺术魅力不仅在于其文学价值，还在于它是一部具有浓厚哲学意蕴的小说，一部关于终极价值的书。毛姆将自己对世界和人生的思索凝聚于这部作品中，书中有他自己的心路历程的影子。小说表达的主题是对人生意义和自我存在意义的追寻。
推荐理由：
1. 毛姆三大代表作之一，入选《50部灵性经典》；
2. 一个普通人寻找信仰的人生传奇，追求真正生活的刀锋上的行者；
3.马尔克斯、村上春树、乔治·奥威尔、张爱玲、莫言、奈保尔一致推崇。