【英语原版下载】Of human bondage [人性的枷锁](pdf格式)

                
                
小说的主人公菲利普从小就失去了父母，而他又是一个先天残疾的孩子。在9岁时他的母亲去世后，他就随他的大伯去生活了。大伯是个清教徒牧师，伯母虽然善良却不懂得怎样与他交流。他敏感害羞充满幻想，因为他的跛足，在学校受到同学们的嘲笑，欺负，于是他用自己的全部虔诚恳求上帝，让他的脚变成一个正常人的脚，但他失败了。他对神的敬仰由此动摇。后来他爱上了罗斯，但罗斯又背叛了他，从此他就没精打采自暴自弃，放弃了他一直想做牧师的信念。后来他成了画家，但他最后还是选择了医生这个行业，正可谓继承了父业，因此他感觉这个行业是最适合他的。当然，他也有爱情，和米尔德丽德，和洛拉，直到和莎莉在一起时，他才从种种憧憬中走出来，终于明白了幸福的含义
Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by William Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece, and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated in a signed inscription of a copy of the book (dated August 28, 1957) that belonged to the renowned collector Ingle Barr: "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."
Nevertheless the book deals with the life of its main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned and brought up by his pious uncle. Maugham's severe stutter has been replaced by Philip's clubfoot. The novel takes the form of a bildungsroman, tracing the protagonist's travels to Germany, Paris, and London, while exploring his intellectual and emotional development and later, in the London period, his destructive relationship with the main female character, Mildred, a self-centered, crude Cockney waitress.
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