书名：Of Human Bondage人性的枷锁

作者：William Somerset Maugham
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：2000
语种：英语
ISBN：9780099284963
商品尺寸：12.9 x 3.7 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：720（以实物为准）
Of Human Bondage《人性的枷锁》是毛姆知名的长篇代表作，主流媒体文学评选，多次上榜，曾3次被改编成电影，中外名家推荐，好评如潮。

本书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；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。

媒体评论：

毛姆写小说开篇的语句可以归纳为一句话：我来跟你谈谈人生吧。语气就像一位经历特别丰富的长辈。这是英国小说特有的微妙特质。——中国先锋文学代表作家孙甘露

《人生的枷锁》堪称天才的著作，而毛姆是当之无愧的艺术大师。——美国自然主义作家西奥多·德莱塞

现代作家中对我影响*的就是毛姆。对于他直言不讳、毫无矫饰地讲故事的能力，我是无限钦佩的。——英国著名小说家、社会评论家乔治·奥威尔

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。有名的有戏剧《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。

William Somerset Maugham(1874–1965) studied medicine, but the quick success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), started him on his lifelong literary career, during which he would become one of the most popular English authors since Dickens. His own life, however, was more tragic, shocking, and fascinating than any novel. After his adored parents died, he grew up in a miserable vicarage and suffered from a physical handicap of which he was ashamed. During his lifetime, Maugham would marry and divorce, be sent to Russia as a spy, and entertain such celebrities as Jean Cocteau, Winston Churchill, Noël Coward, the Aga Khan, and Ian Fleming at his Riviera mansion. Among his masterpieces are Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil, The Razor’s Edge, and The Moon and Sixpence. In addition, such works as “The Letter” and “Rain” established Maugham as a gifted short story writer.