Reading is a portable refuge

Reading Notes

If there is a profession called reader in the world, no one would be more suitable than Maugham.
It seems natural for writers to love reading, but it is rare in literary history for someone like Maugham to follow the clues, understand the writer's works from his works to his life and character, and then turn back from his life and character to care about the writer's works, and write a wonderful collection of essays based on this, which is also a wonderful thing in literary history.
This is a book of gossip about great writers, and also Maugham's insights into reading and philosophy. It covers the poignant secrets and intriguing personalities of literary giants, Jane Austen's kindhearted "sarcasm," Stendhal's inner self-doubt, Flaubert's childhood beach love, Leo Tolstoy's lifelong confusion and remorse, and Dostoyevsky's betrayal...

2017-06-20

北京联合出版公司

Joint Reading and Creation

295

9787550294578