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Bezig met laden... Collected Short Stories: Volume 2 (Penguin 20th Century Classics) (origineel 1963; editie 1992)door W. Somerset Maugham
Informatie over het werkThe Collected Short Stories: Volume 2 door W. Somerset Maugham (1963)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A collection of stories of the English middle and upper classes during the inter war years in London and British Malaysia. Usually the stories had to do with couples and their faulty relations. Only because Maugham could write so well were these at all interesting. Not nearly good as his first collection of stories. ( ) Yes, the stories are old school. They have a beginning, a middle and an end. They also have a point. They are not minimalist fiction and rarely self-indulgent. Maybe that is why nobody reads Maugham anymore. I think Maugham placed himself perfectly: He is in the second rank as a writer, but the first row of the second rank. Some of the stories hold up well and some have fallen victim to the passing of time, but I reccommend: "The Vessel of Wrath", "Floatsam and Jetsam", "Alien Corn", "The Creative Impulse", "The Verger", "The Tiapan", "Jane". This final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham’s unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice. The stories range from “The Lotus Eater” where a man envisions a life of bliss in the Mediterranean, to the astringent tales of “The Outstation” and “The Back of Beyond” in Malaya and South East Asia. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; 'The Man with the Scar', and notably the opening story 'The Vessel of Wrath', a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse and a drunken reprobate. In this second volume of his collected stories, Maugham illustrates his characteristic wry perception of human foibles and his genius for evoking compelling drama from an acute sense of time and place. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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