The Trembling of a Leaf (Little Stories of the South Sea Islands)

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In 1916, William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) travelled to the Pacific to research his novel "The Moon and Sixpence," based on the life of Paul Gauguin. This was the first of those journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which were to establish Maugham forever in the popular imagination as the chronicler of the last days of colonialism in India, Southeas...(展開全部) In 1916, William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) travelled to the Pacific to research his novel "The Moon and Sixpence," based on the life of Paul Gauguin. This was the first of those journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which were to establish Maugham forever in the popular imagination as the chronicler of the last days of colonialism in India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific, although the books on which this reputation rests represent only a fraction of his output.---Maugham reused elements of his Pacific diaries in "The Trembling of a Leaf" (1921), which contains one of his most recognized stories, "Rain," adapted to the stage by John Colton and Clemence Randolph in 1922. [英]威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆小說家，劇作家。現實主義文學代表人物。畢業於倫敦聖托馬斯醫學院，後棄醫從文。在現實主義文學沒落期堅持創作，並奠定文學史上經典地位。倡導以無所偏袒的觀察者角度寫作，包容看待人性，儘可能保持作品的客觀性和真實性，反對將小說當作"布道的講壇"而交由讀者自行判斷。 1946年，設立薩黙塞特·毛姆獎，獎勵優秀年輕作家。 1952年，牛津大學授予名譽博士學位。 1954年，英王室授予"榮譽侍從"稱號。

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