Review“[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius.” –Theodore Dreiser “[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost the equal of imagination itself.” –_The Su...
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there...
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there...
SUMMARY: Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother s adultery? Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearb...
1. The novel begins with Willie’s question to his father about why he was named after the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. If a name is a crucial piece of a person’s identity,...