內容簡介
The Moon and Sixpence, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham's reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty, sickness, and his own intransigent, unscrupulous nature, he drifts to Tahiti, where, even after being blinded by leprosy, he produces some of his most extraordinary works of art. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is an unforgettable study of a man possessed by the need to create-regardless of the cost to himself and to others. Includes a new introduction by distinguished Maugham scholar and biographer Robert Calder
作者簡介
W. 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 afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured.His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933).His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections.W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949).W. Somerset Maugham became a Companion of Honour in 1954. He died in 1965.Robert Calder is professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan.
精彩書評
"[A] witty, compelling roman à clef...that mock[s] the way the world makes saints of the sinners who are often its best artists."??-The Boston Globe"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham.... He was always so entirely there."??-Gore Vidal --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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The Moon and Sixpence月亮與六便士 英文原版 [平裝] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
The Moon and Sixpence月亮與六便士 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 epub mobi pdf txt 電子書
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我感覺總的來說還是行的,京東送貨過年都不停的,這個很厲害。而且確實很快。但是不好的是送過來書後封頁被劃壞瞭,大概4cm。然後書比較小體積,書頁是再生環保紙,跟國外買的一樣。
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做活動時買的,打完摺便宜。很棒的英文書。希望經常有圖書活動。
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這紙質,怎麼看怎麼像盜版
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感覺像是被退過的貨。各種痕跡很明顯,這麼貴的書稍微有點不愉快。不過就這樣吧,反正讀著讀著就破瞭
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感覺像是被退過的貨。各種痕跡很明顯,這麼貴的書稍微有點不愉快。不過就這樣吧,反正讀著讀著就破瞭
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不錯的東東,個人很喜歡,下次再來
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很不錯的原版書!質量不錯!
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暫未發現什麼問題。。。。。。。。
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紙質,印刷,質量,都看不齣來是正版的樣子。。。沒有塑封,邊角有摺痕。。一起買的兩本中文書都不錯且便宜,英文書就又貴又爛?