毛姆的《月亮和六便士》英文版The Moon and Sixpence在竹和松出版社Bamboo & Pine Press出版了

毛姆的《月亮和六便士》英文版The Moon and Sixpence在竹和松出版社Bamboo & Pine Press出版了

William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.

Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practiced medicine, and became a full-time writer.

His first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a study of life in the slums, attracted attention, but it was as a playwright that he first achieved national celebrity.

Maugham’s novels after Liza of Lambeth include Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), The Painted Veil (1925), Cakes and Ale (1930) and The Razor’s Edge (1944). His short stories were published in collections such as The Casuarina Tree (1926) and The Mixture as Before (1940); many of them have been adapted for radio, cinema and television. His great popularity and prodigious sales provoked adverse reactions from highbrow critics, many of whom sought to belittle him as merely competent.

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is, in part, based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆（William Somerset Maugham，1874年1月25日—1965年12月16日），英国小说家、剧作家。代表作有戏剧《圈子》，长篇小说《人生的枷锁》《月亮和六便士》《刀锋》，短篇小说集《叶的震颤》《阿金》等。

《月亮和六便士》是英国小说家威廉·萨默赛特·毛姆创作的长篇小说，首次出版于1919年。

该小说以法国画家保罗·高更的真实经历为原型，讲述了证券经纪人思特里克兰德人到中年，却突然开始追求内心隐秘的绘画梦想，抛妻别子、远走他乡的故事。最终，在遥远的南太平洋小岛上，思特里克兰德陷入贫病交加的窘境，但他始终认定自己必须画画，就像溺水的人必须挣扎。该小说拥有较强的现实主义色彩及风格，以真实的空间位置为基点，是一部描写人性与西方资本主义现代文明矛盾冲突的小说。作者采用思特里克兰德的一生叙述，表达了艺术家为了逃避社会、追求艺术这一主题，反映了社会对于人性的扼杀。在小说中，毛姆采用了第一人称的叙述手法，借“我”之口叙述整个故事，仿佛是担任医生的毛姆在冷静地观察病人、客观地描述情况，读来亲切朴实。该小说的名字，月亮代表高高在上的理想，六便士则是英镑里很小的一个货币单位，可以解读为深陷泥沼中的现实琐碎。

ISBN-13: 979-8-88689-018-1
eBook ISBN-13: 979-8-88689-019-8

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