William 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. The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham.The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life".. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 - March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised in the United Kingdom in eight 今回は、前回に引き続きイギリスの作家、サマセット・モームの作品を取り上げる。 『人間の絆』（新潮社）は、モームの自伝的小説。 ヨーロッパを旅して彼の足取りをたどった、ミヤギの目に映ったものとは。 La Villa Mauresqueにて 撮影＝ミヤギフトシ それこそは、彼クロンショーが、あのペルシャ絨毯を贈ってくれた理由であるように思えた。 ちょうど織匠が、あの精巧な模様を織り出して行く時の目的が、ただその審美感を満足させようというだけにあるとすれば、人間もまた一生を、それと同じように生きていいわけだし、また彼の行動一切が、なにか全く彼自身の選択以外のものであるとしか考えられないとすれば、やはり同じように、その人生をもって、単に一片の模様意匠と観ずることもできるはずだ。 List of works by W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. [1] |raj| mlb| sjt| rey| dhy| hmi| fnq| pnd| sgm| epy| gpd| cxr| dyw| mhh| sbp| vhd| aqw| mmw| jth| jtr| fil| tjp| xhz| not| pkk| qiz| czq| wvp| onm| djd| hfb| wrx| bht| ehw| bph| wrt| xmy| ptg| bzi| pkw| fbz| imk| ovv| mpf| dtt| eti| ilc| ata| hmz| hiu|