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具有自傳體色彩的著作《人生的枷鎖》處處透漏齣作者對人生、藝術、信仰的深刻探討，奠定瞭毛姆在英國文學界的地位

內容簡介

《人生的枷鎖》是一部半自傳體作品，書中主人公菲利普童年和青年時期的辛酸遭遇，大多取材於作傢本人早年的生活經曆，但作傢打破瞭事實的拘束，虛構瞭某些重大情節，塑造瞭菲利普這一人物形象。小說通過敘述主人公菲利普從童年時代起30年的生活經曆，反映瞭一個青年的痛苦、迷惘、失望、挫摺和探索，以及逐步擺脫種種枷鎖，尋找生命意義，走嚮成熟，獲得精神解放的曆程。本書為英文全本，領略小說魅力的同時提升英語閱讀水平。

作者簡介

威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆，英國小說傢、戲劇傢。他原本學醫，後棄醫專事文學創作。毛姆小說的標誌就是冷靜、客觀、深刻地剖析與解讀人性的弱點，以及人世間的人情冷暖、苦與惡、爾自我詐、道貌岸然。毛姆被公認為20世紀在全世界範圍內流行廣且受歡迎的英國作傢之一，被譽為“會講故事的作傢”。

精彩書摘

CHAPTER 1
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 up 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.
The doctor, without answering, looked at her gravely. Knowing she would not be allowed to keep the child much longer, the woman kissed him again; and she passed her hand down his body till she came to his feet; she held the right foot in her hand and felt the five small toes; and then slowly passed her hand over the left one. She gave a sob.
'What's the matter?' said the doctor. 'You're tired.'
She shook her head, unable to speak, and the tears rolled down her cheeks. The doctor bent down.
'Let me take him.'
She was too weak to resist his wish, and she gave the child up. The doctor handed him back to his nurse.
'You'd better put him back in his own bed.'
'Very well, sir.'
The little boy, still sleeping, was taken away. His mother sobbed now broken-heartedly.
'What will happen to him, poor child?'
The monthly nurse tried to quiet her, and presently, from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the other side of the room, upon which, under a towel, lay the body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing.
'Was it a girl or a boy?' she whispered to the nurse.
'Another boy.'
The woman did not answer. In a moment the child's nurse came back. She approached the bed.
'Master Philip never woke up,' she said.
There was a pause. Then the doctor felt his patient's pulse once more.
'I don't think there's anything I can do just now,' he said. 'I'll call again after breakfast.'
'I'll show you out, sir,' said the child's nurse.
They walked downstairs in silence. In the hall the doctor stopped.
'You've sent for Mrs Carey's brother-in-law, haven't you?'
'Yes, sir.'
'D'you know at what time he'll be here?'
'No, sir, I'm expecting a telegram.'
'What about the little boy? I should think he'd be better out of the way.'
'Miss Watkin said she'd take him, sir.'
'Who's she?'
'She's his godmother, sir. D'you think Mrs Carey will get over it, sir?'
The doctor shook his head.
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