One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham's reputation as a literary master The Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty, sickness, and his own intransigent, unscrupulous nature, he drifts to Tahiti, where, even after being blinded by leprosy, he produces...
One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham's reputation as a literary master The Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charl...
Maugham's enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction
The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham's most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siecle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves--until the sinister and repulsive Oliver Haddo appears.
Maugham's enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction
The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham's most complex and perceptive nove...
There is something bracing about the sincerity of Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well as the cancerous sore beneath. Leslie A. Marchand, The New York Times Edward Craddock is a thoroughly good man. He may lack his wife Bertha s education, but he is unfailingly good-humored, handsome, placid, and popular. It is hardly surprising that Bertha adores him. But expending all one s passion, all one s spirit, on a man who...
There is something bracing about the sincerity of Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone wi...
Offers provocative new insights into the war work of more than forty prominent British authors Provides a comprehensive analysis of the suspicions beneath the wartime Anglo-American alliance Describes the tensions that arose between the British Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office During World War II, the United States was the target of what Gore Vidal has called the largest, most intricate and finally most successful conspiracy directed at it in the twentieth century - Great Britain's vast conspiracy to manoeuvre an essentially isolationist country into the war. involvement in this...
Offers provocative new insights into the war work of more than forty prominent British authors Provides a comprehensive analysis of the suspicions ben...
