“A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.”
—W. Somerset Maugham, SUMMING UP (1938)
Somerset Maugham wrote in The Summing Up: “…there is a sort of magic in the written word. The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature, and then stands in the way of its own clarification.”
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“The argument ex consensu gentium is that the belief in God is so widespread as to be grounded in the rational nature of man and should therefore carry ...普遍同意论证（Consensus gentium argument）. 也被通称为关于上帝存在的普遍同意论证。这个论证以下面的前提来基础：如果不严格区分，对上帝的信仰实质上是 ...
An ancient criterion of truth, the consensus gentium (Latin for agreement of the people), states "that which is universal among ...
一九一五年的《人性枷鎖》與一九一九年的《月亮與六便士》，則更確立他在文壇的地位。其他著作有《剃刀邊緣》、《餅與酒》--台灣1960s 有譯本、《書與你》、《毛姆寫作回憶錄》等。 ...
毛姆的《餅與酒/尋歡作樂》（Cakes and Ale）就常被认为是讽刺哈代与他第二任妻子的小说，传言如此之盛，使毛姆 ...
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Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by British author William Somerset Maugham. It is often alleged to be a thinly-veiled roman à clef examining contemporary novelists Thomas Hardy (as Edward Driffield) and Hugh Walpole (as Alroy Kear)[citation needed] -— though Maugham maintained he had created both characters as composites and in fact explicitly denies any connection to Hardy in his own introduction to later editions of the novel. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery leveled at the character Rosie Driffield (Edward's first wife), whose frankness, honesty and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. Her character is treated favorably by the book's narrator, Ashenden, who understands her sexual energy to be a muse to the many artists who surround her.
Maugham drew his title from the remark of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Cakes and ale are the emblems of the good life in the tagline to the fable attributed to Aesop, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse": "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear".
Interestingly, it is one of two books to take the same quote for a title, the other being by Edward Spencer aka Edward Spencer Mott aka Nathaniel Gubbins.
Contents
[hide]毛姆《觀點》(The Points of View by W. Somerset Maugham) 夏菁譯，上海：上海譯文，2011
目錄
詩人(案：哥德)的三部小說
聖者
散文與神學家蒂樂生
短篇小說
三位 (案：法國)日記體作家
譯後記
讀者從我對目錄的兩處案語，可知作者的文字範圍包括英、法、德文。當時書有也有些拉丁文。
這本書翻譯上有些”疏忽” ，譬如說《散文與神學家蒂樂生》( pp. 83-123) ，傳主姓名的原文是 John Tillotson, 1630-1694。此君的講道文章以簡潔出名，一向是英國18世紀以前的文章範本。現在類似《牛津英國文學伴讀》只用數十字介紹他，而毛姆大發思古之幽情，介紹這英國文化史上常被忽略的人物之生平 (現在人對當初英國國教與天主教的衝突，可能已沒什麼興趣，不過這是16-17世紀英國人的第一要事)，相當有趣。
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