W. Somerset Maugham
Kindle Edition | Pages: 311 pages Rating: 4.44 | 266 Users | 4 Reviews
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| Title | : | Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage, & The Moon and Sixpence |
| Author | : | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 311 pages |
| Published | : | (first published November 8th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature |
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Two full novels collected in one edition formatted for the Kindle. WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM [1874-1965] was a British writer of novels, plays, and short stories. He was a medical student at King's College London. While a student learning midwifery in the London slum of Lambeth, He wrote Liza of Lambeth (1897). The novel was a hit, selling out its first edition in a few weeks. This success convinced Maugham to write full time. By 1914, he produced ten novels and ten plays. In World War I, he was one of the "Literary Ambulance Drivers" including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and E. E. Cummings. While serving near Dunkirk, he proof-read Of Human Bondage (1915). Theodore Dreiser considered Of Human Bondage "a work of genius." In 1916, in the Pacific, he researched Paul Gauguin's life for his novel The Moon And Sixpence (1919). In 1928, he moved to the French Riviera, where he resided for the rest of his life. In 1947, he established the Somerset Maugham Award for British writers. V. S. Naipaul, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and Thom Gunn are some notable recipients of the award.Mention Books In Pursuance Of Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage, & The Moon and Sixpence
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Ratings: 4.44 From 266 Users | 4 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage, & The Moon and Sixpence
No one ever died of a broken heart, Maugham proposes, but they do die from a lack of money. I love, love, LOVE this classic! The movie version with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis is a good companion film version and brutal truth peals itself back layer after layer, revealing the consequences of our own weak tendencies and obsessions, whims and misplaced dreams. Like Dickens, though, Maugham doesn't leave us to rot in our own squalor, no matter how justly we may have earned it. He takes usI read all of Somerset Maugham's books when I was in high school, so I decided to re-read them to see if they were as good as I remembered. I did enjoy him again, but his books are a bit dated.
I really loved this book. In all honesty, I did want to strangle the protagonist and give him a shake at times but Maugham does such a wonderful job of creating the reality in this story I couldn't put it down.
I love Maugham; one of my favorite authors. He sees right into his characters and allows you to also. Always poignant, a little tragic, and acutely aware of the complexity of life. I love how his characters grow and mature.
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almostNo one ever died of a broken heart, Maugham proposes, but they do die from a lack of money. I love, love, LOVE this classic! The movie version with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis is a good companion film version and brutal truth peals itself back layer after layer, revealing the consequences of our own weak tendencies and obsessions, whims and misplaced dreams. Like Dickens, though, Maugham doesn't leave us to rot in our own squalor, no matter how justly we may have earned it. He takes us
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