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毛姆短篇小说精选集
冯亦代、傅惟慈、冯涛、翁如琏、李燕乔、郑庆芝、屠珍、贺广贤、王升印、恺蒂、汤伟、梅绍武、叶念先、黄昱宁、陆谷孙倾情迻译，超越时代的最强译者阵容。
《毛姆短篇小说精选集》精选二十三个短篇带我们去往英国、法国、意大利和墨西哥，还引我们领略了太平洋岛国的风情。毛姆笔下的世俗男女在一幕幕凛冽的人间短剧中出演了一个个令人难以忘怀的角色。人性弱点无时不在精确透视之下，人际关系被一次次地冷冷剖析。在各种光怪陆离的场景中，迷失的人性引发了一连串的悲剧。
★现代作家中对我影响最大的，就是毛姆。（奥威尔）
★毛姆懂得在恰当的时候卖关子，然后选择一个令人吃惊的时候说出来。（伊夫林）
★毛姆很会讲故事，我就看他的故事，我看他写的人，就像我在英国接触到的所有英国人，有一种特别的味道。有的时候当我自己写文章想要经营一种比较English的东西的时候，我闭上眼睛也会感觉到它。（董桥）
《毛姆短篇小说精选集》精选二十三个短篇带我们去往英国、法国、意大利和墨西哥，还引我们领略了太平洋岛国的风情。毛姆笔下的世俗男女在一幕幕凛冽的人间短剧中出演了一个个令人难以忘怀的角色。人性弱点无时不在精确透视之下，人际关系被一次次地冷冷剖析。在各种光怪陆离的场景中，迷失的人性引发了一连串的悲剧。
★现代作家中对我影响最大的，就是毛姆。（奥威尔）
★毛姆懂得在恰当的时候卖关子，然后选择一个令人吃惊的时候说出来。（伊夫林）
★毛姆很会讲故事，我就看他的故事，我看他写的人，就像我在英国接触到的所有英国人，有一种特别的味道。有的时候当我自己写文章想要经营一种比较English的东西的时候，我闭上眼睛也会感觉到它。（董桥）
563 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 2012
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About the author
W. Somerset Maugham
1,805 books6,150 followersWilliam 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.
Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.
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.
At the time of Maugham's birth, French law was such that all foreign boys born in France became liable for conscription. Thus, Maugham was born within the Embassy, legally recognized as UK territory.
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.
Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.
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.
At the time of Maugham's birth, French law was such that all foreign boys born in France became liable for conscription. Thus, Maugham was born within the Embassy, legally recognized as UK territory.
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