β Scribed by Somerset Maugham
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius.β βTheodore Dreiser
β[Maughamβs] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost the equal of imagination itself.β β_The Sunday Times_ (London)
βIt is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. . . . He was always so entirely there.β βGore Vidal
βMaugham remains the consummate craftsman. . . . [His writing is] so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last.β β_Saturday Review of Literature_
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancΓ©e Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.Β Β Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
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