Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric cari...
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
作者简介
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William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in 'Of Human Bondage' , Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his fir...
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in 'Of Human Bondage' , Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
重读完英文版以后再次激动地热泪盈眶。不得不说这本书可以算是至今为之我最喜欢且对我影响最大的一本小说了。 作为个体，我一生所追寻的无非是一种感受，并非摒弃理性，并非为情感而左右颠覆，但只是感受罢了，追随情感而行，就如书中所追随的美与人生一样。Artist的独衷。 嗯，英文阅读速度得到了很大的提升。感动T T. Ps.“又何必要把爱情看的太重”纯作为一种情感的体验罢了。这点倒也是挺好的。
Sorry. Maybe I'm too young and naive to understand and to savour this book. But Charles Strickland is really the type of person I distain the most. You can say that an artist can be indifferent to eve...Sorry. Maybe I'm too young and naive to understand and to savour this book. But Charles Strickland is really the type of person I distain the most. You can say that an artist can be indifferent to everything excpet art; I can say an artist without humanity is not a human AT ALL. (展开)
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1 有用 Soo Yung 2012-03-17 19:58:35
重读完英文版以后再次激动地热泪盈眶。不得不说这本书可以算是至今为之我最喜欢且对我影响最大的一本小说了。 作为个体，我一生所追寻的无非是一种感受，并非摒弃理性，并非为情感而左右颠覆，但只是感受罢了，追随情感而行，就如书中所追随的美与人生一样。Artist的独衷。 嗯，英文阅读速度得到了很大的提升。感动T T. Ps.“又何必要把爱情看的太重”纯作为一种情感的体验罢了。这点倒也是挺好的。
0 有用 王荣欣 2012-02-05 22:32:05
封面不同
1 有用 节奏 2015-04-06 12:33:54
What a novel! 太棒了！
14 有用 逻南 2018-02-28 13:55:01
毛姆笔下的Strickland，即便在绘画方面有天赋有才华、以及他看不到六便士只看到月亮的独特魅力，也cover不了因其丧失基本人性和其本质自私而让我对他产生的极度厌恶感。整本书都能感受到毛姆对女性深入骨髓的轻视。
13 有用 庙 2012-01-22 04:14:32
吐血，這一個個人物都是極品啊！Stroeve已經為Beauty & Genius卑微屈膝到不是人了，Strickland爲了passion for creating beauty可以抛棄人間萬事到這種地步，這真是終極裝逼，内心強大到這個地步還能稱人麽？！不否認沒有人性光輝的作品可以有其脫離人世的美，可怎麽又會成爲世人口中的“天才美”？可見後人都是裝逼。毛姆叔叔真心太厲害，言辭幽默用絕了！
0 有用 北有穠芳 2023-01-13 00:34:53 辽宁
得意的时候读了，不知所以。因为不尽人意的选择而失意的时候，最好不要读。
0 有用 垚啊垚 2023-01-07 16:51:56 浙江
Sorry. Maybe I'm too young and naive to understand and to savour this book. But Charles Strickland is really the type of person I distain the most. You can say that an artist can be indifferent to eve... Sorry. Maybe I'm too young and naive to understand and to savour this book. But Charles Strickland is really the type of person I distain the most. You can say that an artist can be indifferent to everything excpet art; I can say an artist without humanity is not a human AT ALL. (展开)
0 有用 disCodeine 2022-12-11 17:28:10 上海
感动，信心+100。在我人生的这个阶段读完这本书真的太应景了。 还有，从头到尾也没看到“满地都是六便士他却抬头看见了月亮”这句话啊。毛姆：我没说过这句话。真的笑死，典中典。
0 有用 未未未未 2022-12-02 18:48:12 山东
He had made a world and saw that it was good. Then, in pride and contempt, he destroyed it.
0 有用 十日重 2022-11-18 20:36:50 北京
字里行间透露出的优越感是怎么回事。。