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书名：Of Human Bondage 人性的枷锁
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数910L
作者：W. Somerset Maugham索威廉•萨默赛特•毛姆
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2007
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530172
商品尺寸：10.6 x2.7 x 17.5 cm
包装：简装
页数：704 （以实物为准）

Of Human Bondage《人性的枷锁》是英国19世纪知名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。该书是毛姆代表作，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；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。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Benjamin De Mott作序，Maeve Binchy写后记。书本小巧便携，内容完整无删减。

From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.…

Marked by countless similarities to Maugham’s own life, his masterpiece is “not an autobiography,” as the author himself once contended, “but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own.” And although he based Of Human Bondage on what he knew, his is an “excessively rare gift of storytelling...almost the equal of imagination itself.”

With an Introduction by Benjamin De Mott and an Afterword by Maeve Binchy

Review
“The modern writer who has influenced me the most.”  — George Orwell
“One of my favorite writers.”  — Gabriel García Marquez

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.

Benjamin DeMott (1924–2005) was professor of English and the Mellon professor of humanities at Amherst College. The author of two novels, he was best known for his cultural criticism in leading periodicals and in such books as The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can’t Think Straight About Class and The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can’t Think Straight About Race.

Maeve Binchy (1940–2012) was the New York Times bestselling author of Quentins, Scarlet Feather, Tara Road (an Oprah’s Book Club Selection), Circle of Friends, Light a Penny Candle, and many other novels. 

THE DAY broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child’s bed.

“Wake up, Philip,” she said.
She pulled down the bed-clothes, took him in her arms, and carried him downstairs. He was only half awake.
“Your mother wants you,” she said.
She opened the door of a room on the floor below and took the child over to a bed in which a woman was lying. It was his mother. She stretched out her arms, and the child nestled by her side. He did not ask why he had been awakened. The woman kissed his eyes, and with thin, small hands felt the warm body through his white flannel nightgown. She pressed him closer to herself. “Are you sleepy, darling?” she said.
Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He was very happy in the large, warm bed, with those soft arms about him. He tried to make himself smaller still as he cuddled against his mother, and he kissed her sleepily. In a moment he closed his eyes and was fast asleep. The doctor came forward and stood by the bedside.
“Oh, don’t take him away yet,” she moaned.