Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his...
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
不小心读了Retold版本。
来摘一段Larry的话，我觉得满治愈的：
The world was beautiful and I was part of the world.The life in me was the same life in people,animals,trees and moutains.I felt I was changing,as the mist change...不小心读了Retold版本。
来摘一段Larry的话，我觉得满治愈的：
The world was beautiful and I was part of the world.The life in me was the same life in people,animals,trees and moutains.I felt I was changing,as the mist changes when the sun shines on it.I understood for the first time what life means. (展开)
从十一看到现在，终于看完！本来，看走向要给我进行一些精神上的解惑，结果看完发现是一部印度教版的《饭祷爱》。叙事很像街坊讲八卦，我也。。但是还是enjoyed it a lot，Elliot的vanity，Isabel的practicality，对堕落女性如Sophie和Susanne的同理心甚至欣赏，对Larry的大爱，也是非常细腻动人了。
I see the shade of today's chinese from America of 1920. As a financial independent guy, Larry loafed, traveled, read, thought, found. Ironically, what he found for more than ten years is to abandon...I see the shade of today's chinese from America of 1920. As a financial independent guy, Larry loafed, traveled, read, thought, found. Ironically, what he found for more than ten years is to abandon independence then become a 社畜？！So still real a American of 1920 . It turns out that we cannot escape from the fasion whatever we experience. Agony.(展开)
For all the persons with whom I have been concerned got what they wanted: Elliott social eminence; Isabel an assured position backed by a substantial fortunre in an active and cultured community; Gray a steady and lucrative job, with an office to got o from nine till six every day; Suzanne Rouvier security; Sophie death; and Larry happiness. And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the...
2018-11-16 23:06
For all the persons with whom I have been concerned got what they wanted: Elliott social eminence; Isabel an assured position backed by a substantial fortunre in an active and cultured community; Gray a steady and lucrative job, with an office to got o from nine till six every day; Suzanne Rouvier security; Sophie death; and Larry happiness. And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the public in our heart of hearts all like a success story; so perhaps my ending is not so unsatisfactory after all.
The moon, which when full would look upon the vacuous, noisy gaiety of Edna Novemali's fancy-dress party, set, in the sky, a deep, depp blue, the countless stars shone with their terrifying brilliance.I think I may have dropped off into a light sleep, but my intense consciousness by a hurried, angry sound, the most awe-inspiring sound anyone can ehar, the death rattle. I went over to the bed an...
2018-11-16 23:03
The moon, which when full would look upon the vacuous, noisy gaiety of Edna Novemali's fancy-dress party, set, in the sky, a deep, depp blue, the countless stars shone with their terrifying brilliance.I think I may have dropped off into a light sleep, but my intense consciousness by a hurried, angry sound, the most awe-inspiring sound anyone can ehar, the death rattle. I went over to the bed and by the gleam of the lighthouse felt Elliott's pulse. He was dead.
It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they were born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they ...
2016-10-19 23:21
It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they were born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them. You can only know them if you are them. And because you cannot know persons of a nation foreign to you except from observation, it is difficult to give them credibility in the pages of a book. Even so subtle careful an observer as Henry James, though he lived in England for forty years, never managed to create an Englishman who was through and through English. 引自第3页
His amiability was extreme; he never minded being asked at the last moment because someone had thrown you over and you could put him next to a very boring old lady and count on him to be as charming and amusing with her as he knew how.
2016-10-19 23:47
His amiability was extreme; he never minded being asked at the last moment because someone had thrown you over and you could put him next to a very boring old lady and count on him to be as charming and amusing with her as he knew how. 引自第6页
I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it. I have a little story to tell and I end neither with a death nor a marriage. Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it very properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a ...
2012-12-18 11:05
I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it. I have a little story to tell and I end neither with a death nor a marriage. Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it very properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending. It is a sound instinct of the common people which persuades them that with this all that needs to be said is said. When male and female, after whatever vicissitudes you like, are at last brought together they have fulfilled their biological function and interest passes to the generation that is to come. But I leave my reader in the air.
Presently we hailed a taxi. It put us down before a brownstone house. Narrow and rather high, and you ascended to the front door by a flight of steep steps. It was in a row of houses, in a street that led off Lake Shore Drive, and its appearance, even on that bright autumn day, was so drab that you wondered how anyone could feel any sentiment about it. The door was opened by a tall and stout Ne...
2016-10-25 21:02
Presently we hailed a taxi. It put us down before a brownstone house. Narrow and rather high, and you ascended to the front door by a flight of steep steps. It was in a row of houses, in a street that led off Lake Shore Drive, and its appearance, even on that bright autumn day, was so drab that you wondered how anyone could feel any sentiment about it. The door was opened by a tall and stout Negro butler with white hair, and we were ushered into the drawing-room. Mrs Bradley got up from her chair as we came in and Elliott presented me to her. She must have been a handsome woman when young, for her features, though on the large side, were good, and she had fine eyes. But her sallowest face, almost aggressively destitute of make-up, had sagged, and it was plain that she had lost the battle with the corpulence of middle age. I surmised that she was unwilling to accept defeat, for when she sat down she sat very erect in a straight-backed chair which the cruel armor of her corsets doubtless made more comfortable than an upholstered one. She wore a blue gown, heavily braided, and her high collar was stiff with whalebone. She had a fine head of white hair tightly marveled and intricately dressed. 引自第15页
For all the persons with whom I have been concerned got what they wanted: Elliott social eminence; Isabel an assured position backed by a substantial fortunre in an active and cultured community; Gray a steady and lucrative job, with an office to got o from nine till six every day; Suzanne Rouvier security; Sophie death; and Larry happiness. And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the...
2018-11-16 23:06
For all the persons with whom I have been concerned got what they wanted: Elliott social eminence; Isabel an assured position backed by a substantial fortunre in an active and cultured community; Gray a steady and lucrative job, with an office to got o from nine till six every day; Suzanne Rouvier security; Sophie death; and Larry happiness. And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the public in our heart of hearts all like a success story; so perhaps my ending is not so unsatisfactory after all.
The moon, which when full would look upon the vacuous, noisy gaiety of Edna Novemali's fancy-dress party, set, in the sky, a deep, depp blue, the countless stars shone with their terrifying brilliance.I think I may have dropped off into a light sleep, but my intense consciousness by a hurried, angry sound, the most awe-inspiring sound anyone can ehar, the death rattle. I went over to the bed an...
2018-11-16 23:03
The moon, which when full would look upon the vacuous, noisy gaiety of Edna Novemali's fancy-dress party, set, in the sky, a deep, depp blue, the countless stars shone with their terrifying brilliance.I think I may have dropped off into a light sleep, but my intense consciousness by a hurried, angry sound, the most awe-inspiring sound anyone can ehar, the death rattle. I went over to the bed and by the gleam of the lighthouse felt Elliott's pulse. He was dead.
花袭人
上海译文出版社1994版
玛特
上海译文出版社2003版
琥珀糖☁️☁️
上海译文出版社1994版
晋城小郭
上海译文出版社2012版
For all the persons with whom I have been concerned got what they wanted: Elliott social eminence; Isabel an assured position backed by a substantial fortunre in an active and cultured community; Gray a steady and lucrative job, with an office to got o from nine till six every day; Suzanne Rouvier security; Sophie death; and Larry happiness. And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the...
3 有用 毛球菌 2011-04-10
不小心读了Retold版本。 来摘一段Larry的话，我觉得满治愈的： The world was beautiful and I was part of the world.The life in me was the same life in people,animals,trees and moutains.I felt I was changing,as the mist change... 不小心读了Retold版本。 来摘一段Larry的话，我觉得满治愈的： The world was beautiful and I was part of the world.The life in me was the same life in people,animals,trees and moutains.I felt I was changing,as the mist changes when the sun shines on it.I understood for the first time what life means. (展开)
1 有用 崔。 2016-05-11
人和人有什么指责和说教的呢，不过是谁和谁想要的东西都不一样，好在好像最后都得到了自己想要的。//Larry简直不是现世中的人，但其实不过不是大多数。//唏嘘多年后Larry和Isabel简直就是黄伟文笔下的罗生门。幸好没人戳破。误会的就误会一辈子带走了最好。//我要换个作者的书看看缓一缓。
1 有用 姜吃饱 2019-02-02
拥的有第一本毛姆了、感人 我是功夫不负有心人、爱拼才会赢本人、
1 有用 崇光 2018-12-04
Amusingly interested
0 有用 mathbao 2017-11-12
拉里的形象还是不够丰满。不过我依旧喜欢。
0 有用 Chenyi太空漫游 2020-10-15
从十一看到现在，终于看完！本来，看走向要给我进行一些精神上的解惑，结果看完发现是一部印度教版的《饭祷爱》。叙事很像街坊讲八卦，我也。。但是还是enjoyed it a lot，Elliot的vanity，Isabel的practicality，对堕落女性如Sophie和Susanne的同理心甚至欣赏，对Larry的大爱，也是非常细腻动人了。
0 有用 老章 2020-08-25
探讨人生的类型，入世或出世。引人思索。
0 有用 芷色的云 2020-07-31
I see the shade of today's chinese from America of 1920. As a financial independent guy, Larry loafed, traveled, read, thought, found. Ironically, what he found for more than ten years is to abandon... I see the shade of today's chinese from America of 1920. As a financial independent guy, Larry loafed, traveled, read, thought, found. Ironically, what he found for more than ten years is to abandon independence then become a 社畜？！So still real a American of 1920 . It turns out that we cannot escape from the fasion whatever we experience. Agony. (展开)
0 有用 周慕云 2020-07-18
越来越爱毛姆。
0 有用 izumilarry 2020-04-06
一个越过刀锋的人