Publisher: CanongateBooks;Mainedition(6July2023) Language: English Paperback: 496pages ISBN-10: 1838854800 ISBN-13: 978-1838854805 Dimensions: 12.9x3x19.8cm 《星期日泰晤士报》水石雜誌 2022年蕞佳图书：2022年《星期日邮报》蕞佳图书艾伦·里克曼几乎在所有类型的电影中都是蕞受欢迎的演员之一，从他在《虎胆龙威》中饰演的恶棍汉斯·格鲁伯到他饰演西弗勒斯·斯内普教授等令人心碎的角色。他高贵的气质、洪亮的嗓音和他为每个角色带来的睿智，至今仍吸引着新的观众。但里克曼的艺术性并
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widelyread authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the mostfamous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own truestory has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth isrevealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer SelinaHastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personalcorrespondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his onlychild, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity,and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as TheRazor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage. Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood spentwith unloving relatives after the death of his parents, a traumathat resulted in shyness, a stammer, and for the rest of his lifean urgent need for physical tenderness. Here, too, are his adulttriumphs on the stage and page, works that allowed him a glitteringsocial life in which he befriended and sometimes fell out with suchluminaries as Do
To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov'swritings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic,biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories andplays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov's life and framedby an account of Malcolm's journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, andYalta. She writes of Chekhov's childhood, his relationships, histravels, his early success, and his self-imposed "exile"--alwayswith an eye to connecting them to themes and characters in hiswork. Lovers of Chekhov as well as those new to his work will betransfixed by "Reading Chekhov."
