| Abstract (in English) | 第1-10页 |
| Abstract (in Chinese) | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| 1. W. S. Maugham and His Works | 第11-13页 |
| 2. Maugham and His Works in China | 第13-15页 |
| 3. Main Chapters of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| 4. Critical Theories Applied | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter One A Survey of the Historical Study of Human Nature and Maugham's Contribution to the Issue | 第17-29页 |
| ·The Spiritual Status Quo of the Western World | 第17-20页 |
| ·Existentialism in the 20th Century and its Influence on Maugham | 第20-29页 |
| ·Camus: the Absurd Hero Sisyphus and His Reflection in Maugham's Heroes | 第21-23页 |
| ·Absurdity in Maugham's Works | 第23-25页 |
| ·Exoticism in Maugham's Works: an Escape and a Channel of Cultural Communication | 第25-29页 |
| Chapter Two Freedom From Bondages: Philip's Struggle to Learn Himself | 第29-39页 |
| ·A Synopsis of Of Human Bondage: a Semi-autobiography and an Initiation Story | 第29-32页 |
| ·Disillusion and Vacillation | 第32-37页 |
| ·Disillusion with Christianity | 第32-34页 |
| ·Disillusion with Love | 第34-35页 |
| ·Suicide Tendency as a Motif Connected with Absurdity | 第35-37页 |
| ·A Happy Ending | 第37页 |
| ·Maugham's Dualism on Human Nature | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three The Reawakening of Human Nature: Strickland's Efforts to Establish Himself as a Being | 第39-53页 |
| ·A Synopsis of The Moon and Sixpence: the Title and the Theme | 第39-45页 |
| ·The Absurd Man with Naturalist Idiosyncrasy | 第41-44页 |
| ·Initiation Hues in the Novel | 第44-45页 |
| ·A Differentia of Strickland's Character Analysis | 第45-53页 |
| ·Strickland's Character by the Western Criterion | 第45-47页 |
| ·Strickland's Character by the Eastern Criterion | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Reawakening of Human Nature | 第48-53页 |
| Chapter Four Glory in the Quest for Spiritual Life: Larry's Attitude as a Connoisseur of Life | 第53-63页 |
| ·A Synopsis of The Razor's Edge | 第53-55页 |
| ·Elliott Templeton—Admirer of the Old Tradition | 第55-57页 |
| ·Isabel and Gray: Conventionalists | 第57-59页 |
| ·Sophie MacDonald: A Rebel as a Prostitute | 第59-60页 |
| ·Larry: An Absurd Hero as a Sage in the West | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter Five The Construction of Modern Man's Spiritual Life as the Mutual Theme of the Three Novels | 第63-71页 |
| ·A Psychoanalysis of the Three Protagonists | 第63-69页 |
| ·Maugham's Specific Way of Remolding the Western Soul | 第69-71页 |
| Conclusion | 第71-72页 |
| Notes | 第72-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-78页 |
