书名：Of Human Bondage 人性的枷锁

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数910

作者：W. Somerset Maugham索威廉·萨默赛特·毛姆

出版社名称：Bantam Classics

出版时间：1991

语种：英文

ISBN：9780553213928

商品尺寸：10.7 x 3 x 17.5 cm

包装：平装

页数：736

Of Human Bondage《人性的枷锁》是英国19世纪作家毛姆的半自传体小说，自1915年出版至今，经久不衰，广为传诵。许多作家和评论家对其评价甚高，认为它是“融汇了作家真挚感情，体现了作家真实思想的感人之作”。1966年，英国批评家西亚尔·科诺将此书列入“现代文学运动巨著一百种”中，这足以证明它在英国文学史上的重要地位。本书适合有一定英文水平的英国文学爱好者、英语学习者阅读。

推荐理由：

1.毛姆代表作，通过描写主人公的曲折遭遇，揭露社会从精神到物质上对人的折磨与奴役，思想深刻，对人生见解独特；

2.书中主人公菲利普童年的辛酸遭遇，大多取材于作家本人早年的生活经历，毛姆在这个人物身上倾注了自己的思想感情和切身感受，引起很多人的共鸣；

3.语言平实质朴，文笔简练，描写细腻真实，特别是其中的人物感情和思想变化，非常值得细细品读；

4.英文原版无删节，小巧便携，方便随时翻阅。

One of the great novels of the twentieth century,Of humanBondage tells 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 toHeidelberg and to Pairs. But it is back in London that 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.”

Of Human Bondage《人性的枷锁》是一部半自传体性的作品。小说通过叙述主人公菲利普从童年时代起的三十年生活经历，反映了一个青年的痛苦、迷惘、失望、挫折和探索，以及逐步摆脱种种枷锁，寻找生命意义，走向成熟，获得精神解放的历程。

Of Human Bondage is 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 in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair. 

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆。英国小说家、戏剧家。生于律师家庭。父母早逝，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。的有戏剧《圈子》，长篇小说《人性的枷锁》《月亮和六便士》，短篇小说集《叶的震颤》《卡苏里那树》《阿金》等。

W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where 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.