Loss of Humanity
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About This Novel
"The Loss of Humanity" contains ten of Maugham's short stories. "Makintosh" is based on a South Sea island country. It tells the story of a vulgar, reckless, authoritarian white colonial governor. On the one hand, he adopts a paternalistic and high-pressure control policy on the local residents, and uses all kinds of tricks to suppress the strike resistance organized by the chief's son, causing those who oppose him to suffer. But on the other hand, he deeply loves the island and regards it as the "Garden of Eden" ", treating the people on the island as their "own children"... "Rain" takes the island of Hawaii as the background of the story. It tells the story of the devout and paranoid Christian missionaries Davidson and his wife, and their expulsion of Miss Thompson, a female neighbor who they regarded as "unclean, depraved and improper". However, in the process of "rescuing" Thompson with Christian doctrine, Davidson could not help but become obsessed with Thompson...
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