Three Early Novels: Liza of Lambeth, Mrs Craddock, the Magician
✍ Scribed by W. Somerset Maugham
- Book ID
- 110819943
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 388 KB
- Series
- Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781411430945
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✦ Synopsis
The three novels in this collection, Liza of Lambeth (1897), Mrs Craddock (1902), and The Magician (1908), had a lasting influence on the literary world. Their settings are various--ranging from the South London slums through the Kentish countryside to the British expatriate community in early twentieth-century Paris--and yet they have common qualities. In each, the protagonist is isolated from a traditional community and unable to create new personal relationships that might enable survival in a changing society. The three novels thus dramatize a dilemma Maugham faced in his own life and one that is the central theme of much modern literature.