W. Somerset Maugham

Maugham, William Somerset - môm, 1874–1965, English author, b. Paris. He was noted as an expert storyteller and a master of fiction technique. An introverted child afflicted with a stammer, Maugham was orphaned at 10 and sent to live with his uncle, a vicar. Although he later studied medicine and completed his internship, he never practiced, having decided at an early age to devote Read More...

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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham. 766 pgs.

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The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham. 287 pgs.

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A Note From the Publisher Of The Heritage Reprints

In Explanation: Excerpts from a Brief Correspondence Between The Publisher of This Edition and the Author of the Novel

How This Book Came to Be

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Critical Heritage
by Anthony Curtis, John Whitehead. 470 pgs.

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This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twnetieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

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General Editor's Preface

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Note on the Selection and Its Arrangement

Part I: Liza of Lambeth

2: Unsigned Review, Academy

The Making of a Saint

5: Unsigned Review, Academy

Orientations

7: Unsigned Review, Academy

Mrs Craddock

The Merry-Go-Round

11: Unsigned Review, Athenaeum

The Land of the Blessed Virgin

13: [virginia Woolf], Unsigned Review, 'Journeys in Spain', Times Literary Supplement

The Bishop's Apron

The Magician

16: Unsigned Review, 'A Feast of Horrors', New York Times

Part II: A Man of Honour

18: Max Beerbohm, 'An Uncommercial Play', Saturday Review (london)

Lady Frederick

Jack Straw

22: Max Beerbohm, Review, Saturday Review (london)

Mrs Dot

24: J. T. Grein, Review, Sunday Times

The Explorer

26: Max Beerbohm, ‘how Dare He?’ Saturday Review (london)

Penelope

Smith

30: Unsigned Review, Athenaeum

The Tenth Man

Grace (landed Gentry)

Loaves and Fishes

34: [a. A. ] M[ilne], Review, Punch

The Land of Promise

37: S. O., 'Pygmalion (at Home and Abroad)', English Review

Part III: Of Human Bondage

39: Gerald Gould, Review, New Statesman

40: Unsigned Review, Athenaeum

42: Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, 'After Ten Years of Of Human Bondage', New York Times

The Moon and Sixpence

45: Maxwell Anderson, ‘in Vishnu-Land What Avatar?’ Dial

The Trembling of a Leaf

47: Unsigned Review, Saturday Review (london)

On a Chinese Screen

The Painted Veil

53: Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement

The Casuarina Tree

55: Edwin Muir, Review, Nation and Athenaeum

56: Henry Albert Phillips, 'In the Shadow of the Casuarina Tree', New York Evening Post

Ashenden

58: D. H. Lawrence, 'Four Contemporary Books', Vogue

59: Unsigned Review, 'Mr Maugham's Latest', New York Times

The Gentleman in the Parlour

61: Bellamy Partridge, 'Rare Traveler', New York Herald Tribune

62: Arthur Colton, 'Travelling with Composure', Saturday Review of Literature (new York)

Cakes and Ale

64: Evelyn Waugh, 'The Books You Read', Graphic

Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular

The Narrow Corner

69: Florence Haxton Britten, 'A Cynical, Gifted Story Teller', New York Herald Tribune

Ah King

Part IV: Caroline (the Unattainable)

Our Betters

74: Desmond Maccarthy, Review, New Statesman

Caesar's Wife

76: William Archer, Review, Weekly Review (new York)

Home and Beauty (too Many Husbands)

The Unknown

80: Frank Swinnerton, Review, Nation (london)

The Circle

82: W. J. Turner, Review, London Mercury

East of Suez

84: Desmond Maccarthy, Review, New Statesman

The Constant Wife

The Letter

88: Ivor Brown, 'Here Are Tigers', Saturday Review (london)

The Sacred Flame

90: J. T. Grein, 'Three Leading Ladies', Illustrated London News

The Breadwinner

92: J. B. Priestley, 'A Letter from England', Saturday Review of Literature (new York)

For Services Rendered

94: J. T. Grein, 'Two Gifted Pessimists', Illustrated London News

Sheppey

96: J. T. Grein, 'Somerset Maugham's New Play', Illustrated London News

98: Raymond Mortimer, 'Re-Reading Mr Maugham', New Statesman and Nation

99: Graham Greene, 'Maugham's Short Stories', Spectator

Don Fernando

Cosmopolitans

Theatre

107: Elizabeth Bowen, 'A Straight Novel', New Statesman and Nation

The Summing Up

109: Graham Greene, 'Maugham's Pattern', Spectator

110: Stephen Vincent Benét, 'A Self-Taught Trade', Saturday Review of Literature (new York)

Christmas Holiday

113: Richard A. Cordell, 'Five-Day Adventure', Saturday Review of Literature (new York)

Books and You

The Mixture as Before

116: Iris Barry, 'Midsummer Nights' Fare', New York Herald Tribune

Up at the Villa

The Hour Before the Dawn

120: R. Ellis Roberts, the Art of Somerset Maugham', Saturday Review of Literature (new York)

The Razor's Edge

122: Diana Trilling, Review, Nation (new York)

123: Kate O'brien, Review, Spectator

124: Cyril Connolly, the Art of Being Good', New Statesman and Nation

Then and Now

126: Edmund Wilson, 'Somerset Maugham and an Antidote', New Yorker

Creatures of Circumstance

128: Charles Lee, 'Mr Maugham, Still Urbane', New York Times

Catalina

130: Orville Prescott, Review, New York Times

A Writer's Notebook

134: V. S. Pritchett, Review, New Statesman and Nation

The Vagrant Mood

138: Christopher Morley, the Maugham Seesaw', New York Times

Points of View

140: Karl G. Pfeiffer, 'Mr Maugham's Valedictory', New York Herald Tribune

Part VI: General Studies

142: H. E. Bates on the Modern Short Story

145: Unsigned Leading Article, 'Maugham at 80', New York Times

148: Christopher Isherwood on the Eastern Stories

149: Walter Allen, 'Summing Up Somerset Maugham at 90', New York Times

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The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire (Chap. 5 "Maugham's Of Human Bondage and the Anatomy of Desire")
by Christopher Lane. 326 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction: Theorizing "The Empire of the Selfsame"

1: The Incursions of Purity: Kipling's Legislators and the Anxiety of Psychic Demand

2: The Fate of the Pioneer: Mason, Haggard, and the Colonial Frame of Homophilia

3: Framing Fears, Reading Designs: The Homosexual Art of Painting in James, Wilde, and Beerbohm

4: Fostering Subjection: Masculine Identification and Homosexual Allegory in Conrad's Victory

5: Maugham's of Human Bondage and the Anatomy of Desire

6: Managing "The White Man's Burden" : The Racial Imaginary of Forster's Colonial Narratives

7: Re/Orientations: Firbank's "Anglophobia" and the Sexual Nomad

8: In Defense of the Realm: Sassoon's Memoirs and "Other Opaque Arenas of War"

9: Saki/Munro: "Savage Propensities" Or, the "Jungle-Boy in the Drawing-Room"

Epilogue: Britain's Disavowal and the Mourning of Empire

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Index
5 .

Images of Truth: Remembrances and Criticism (Chap. Three "Somerset Maugham and Posterity")
by Glenway Wescott. 314 pgs.

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Books by Glenway Wescott

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Chapter One: Fiction Writing in a Time of Troubles

Chapter Two: Katherine Anne Porter Personally

Chapter Three: Somerset Maugham and Posterity

Chapter Four: An Introduction to Colette

Chapter Five: A Call on Colette and Goudeket

Chapter Six: Isak Dinesen, the Storyteller

Chapter Seven: Thomas Mann: Will Power and Fiction

Chapter Eight: Talks with Thornton Wilder

Acknowledgments

Autobiographical Note
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The Writer Observed ("W. Somerset Maugham and Evelyn Waugh" begins on p. 147)
by Harvey Breit. 290 pgs.

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Introduction

T. S. Eliot

Robert E. Sherwood

Evelyn Waugh

J. P. Marquand

E. M. Forster

Arnold Toynbee

Albert Schweitzer

Christopher Morley

Angela Thirkell

Robert Hillyer

John O'Hara

Nelson Algren

Alan Paton

Robert Frost

William Carlos Williams

Henry Green

Elizabeth Bowen

Christine Weston

Charles Jackson

Robert Nathan

Dylan Thomas

Aldous Huxley

Robert Penn Warren

Wilbur Daniel Steele

Budd Schulberg

John Dos Passos

W. Somerset Maugham And Evelyn Waugh

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Conrad Aiken

E. E. Cummings

James Norman Hall

Joyce Cary

Noel Coward

Cecil Woodham-Smith

James Jones

Arthur Koestler

Helen Macinnes And Gilbert Highet

J. B. Priestley

Frank Yerby

Norman Mailer

Malcolm Cowley

Ray Bradbury

Phyllis Mcginley

Christopher Isherwood

Van Wyck Brooks

Jean Stafford

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Dylan Thomas

Truman Capote

C. S. Forester

Ralph Ellison

George Jean Nathan

Carl Sandburg

James Thurber

Frank O'Connor

Ernest Hemingway

Edmund Wilson

Saul Bellow

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Index of Authors Interviewed

About the Author
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British Playwrights, 1880-1956: A Research and Production Sourcebook ("W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)" begins on p. 278)
by William W. Demastes, Katherine E. Kelly. 457 pgs.

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Bio-critical essays overview and assess the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956.

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Preface

William Archer (1856-1924)

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)

James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor) (1888-1951)

Harold Brighouse (1882-1958)

Noël Coward (1899-1973)

Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) (1887-1965)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Christopher Fry (1907-)

John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)

Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)

Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952)

St. John Hankin (1869-1909)

W. Stanley Houghton (1881-1913)

Laurence Housman (1865-1959)

Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929)

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

John Masefield (1878-1967)

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Allan Monkhouse (1858-1936)

Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)

J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)

Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)

Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975)

Alfred Sutro (1863-1933)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Selected Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Titles

About the Editors and Contributors
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The Origins of the Russian Civil War ("The Maugham Mission" begins on p. 103)
by Geoffrey Swain. 298 pgs.

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Editor's Foreword

Preface

Introduction

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Chapter One the Failed White Counter-Revolution

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Chapter Two Lenin Risks a Red--Green Civil War

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Chapter Three Peace for Renewed Civil War

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Chapter Four the British and the Patriotic Socialists

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Chapter Five Defending the Socialist Fatherland

THE ANTI-GERMAN MOOD

Chapter Six the Start of the Red-Green Civil War

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Chapter Seven Disunity in the Green Camp

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Chapter Eight Green Directory, White Counter-Revolution

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NOTES

Glossary

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Maps

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Then and Now: A Novel
by W. Somerset Maugham. 282 pgs.

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Christmas Holiday
by W. Somerset Maugham. 316 pgs.

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W. Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Modern English and American Literature
by W. Somerset Maugham. 618 pgs.

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Petrified Man

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Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation: W. Somerset Maugham's Exotic Fiction
by Philip Holden. 170 pgs.

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Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a masculine British identity. In this first book to address Maugham's fiction in light of recent developments in postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory, Holden argues that Maugham's work can be understood as an attempt to negotiate between two alternative masculine identities: those of private homosexual and public writer. Holden identifies Maugham's attempts to cultivate a public persona as a writer whose heterosexuality is confirmed through a process of control of language. Furthermore, Holden illuminates the fluidity of language that Maugham, in contrast to his public persona, associated with homosexuality. The basis of this study is the provocative notion that Maugham's texts, despite their exotic locations, ultimately dramatize a struggle over masculine British identity.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

NOTES

1 Envisioning the Primitive: The Moon and Sixpence

2 The Closet of Nostalgia: The Trembling of a Leaf

3: The Flâneur Abroad: On a Chinese Screen

4 The Empty Sign Of The Painted Veil

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5 Transgression and Containment: The Malayan Short Stories

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6 The Narrow Corner: Intoxication, Homoeroticism, and The Writing Cure

7 Transcending Sexuality: India and the Razor's Edge

Conclusion

NOTES

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook ("W[illiam] Somerset Maugham" begins on p. 283)
by Alba Amoia, Bettina L. Knapp. 497 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 world writers from antiquity to 1945, who were significantly influenced by cultures other than their own. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes and contexts, a summary of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The entries focus on the socio-historical circumstances that led to the author's exile, emigration, religious conversion, education, and travel or residence in a foreign country.

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Saint Auqustine of Hippo

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William Beckford

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MarÍa Luisa Bombal

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

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Fredrika Bremer

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The Brownings: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

George Gordon Byron

LuÍs Vaz De CamÕes

Ch'Oe Ch'IwŎn

Paul Claudel

Joseph Conrad

Stephen Crane

RubÉn DarÍo

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Alexandra David-Neel

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Charles Dickens

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Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

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Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

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Pierre Drieula Rochelle

George Eliot (Mary Anne, Later Mary Ann and Marian, Evans)

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Erasmus (Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus)

Gustave Flaubert

E.M.Forster

Margaret Fuller

George Gemistos Plethon

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AndrÉ Gide

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Carlo Goldoni

Knut Pedersen Hamsun

The Hawthornes: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne

Heinrich Heine

Ernest Hemingway

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

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Herodotus

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Hermann Hesse

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Horiguchi Daigaku

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Aldous Leonard Huxley

Ibn Battuta

Ibn Khaldun

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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Washington Irving

Viacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov

Henry James

Jiang Guangci

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Jean De Joinville

Flavius Josephus

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James Joyce

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Kabir

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

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Kim SowŎl

Rudyard Kipling

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Adamantios KoraÍs

BartolomÉ De Las Casas

D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence

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Fanny Lewald

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Lin Yutang

Pierre Loti

AndrÉ Malraux

Thomas Mann

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W[illiam] Somerset Maugham

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Adam Mickiewicz

Henry Miller

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, Seigneur De)

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Charles-Louis De Secondat De Montesquieu

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Mori (RintarŌ) Ōgai

Nagai KafŪ

GÉrard De Nerval (GÉrard Labrunie)

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AnaÏs Nin

George Orwell

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Fernando Pessoa

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Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)

Marco Polo

Jan Potocki

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Ameen F.Rihani

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Rainer Maria Rilke

George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Victor Segalen

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Georges Simenon

Madame De StaËl (Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker)

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Cornelius Tacitus

Rabindranath Tagore

Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)

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Alexis De Tocqueville

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Cristina Trivulzio Barbiano Di Belgioioso

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Giambattista Vico

Geoffroy De Villehardouin

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Voltaire (FranÇois-Marie Arouet)

Edith Wharton

Oscar Wilde

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Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)

Xenophon

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Xu Zhimo

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Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular
by W. Somerset Maugham. 299 pgs.

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Introduction

Virtue

The Round Dozen

The Human Element

Jane

The Alien Corn

The Creative Impulse
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Theatre: A Novel
by W. Somerset Maugham. 292 pgs.

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The Letter: A Play in Three Acts
by W. Somerset Maugham. 177 pgs.

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Characters

The Letter: Act One

The Letter: Act Two

The Letter: Act Three

Scene I

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