Ten Novels and Their Authors by W. Somerset Maugham

Somerset Maugham before switching to this one due to its larger fonts. That was a long time before I came across and decided to read a former brownish copy of “Ten Novels and Their Authors” by W. Two messages arrived and encouraged me to have a go with it but it’s a pity I was too busy then so I gave up the idea. Some years ago I posted a query on a Yahoo website wondering if I should read “Tom Jones” by Henry Fielding and why. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.

He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.ĭuring World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service. Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.

His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. OL24302204W Page_number_confidence 95.13 Pages 310 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201118121756 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 277 Scandate 20201116090006 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0140029052 Tts_version 4.William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874.

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Ten Novels and Their Authors by W. Somerset Maugham