Blogs in May 2020

Up at the Villa 25th May 2020

In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary...

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Of Human Bondage 1st January 1970

Of Human Bondage is absoulute Somerset Maugham. The book is set in the last decades of the nineteenth century and, part autobiographical, it is about a young orphan, his apprenticeship in art, then medicine as well as the theme...

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The Moon and Sixpence 1st January 1970

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads...

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Ashenden 1st January 1970

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries and a celebrated writer, Maugham had the perfect cover,...

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