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Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Literature.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.… (meer)
De portretten van Eliott en Isabel zijn schitterend. De truuk van de in- en uitwandelende auteur werkt wel, maarsoms rare zijsprongen. Het spirituele thema is uiteindelijk redelijk mager, en erg schatplichtig aan Hesse ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard. ~ Katha-Upanishad
Opdracht
Eerste woorden
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I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
Laatste woorden
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And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the public in our heart of hearts all like a success story; so perhaps my ending is not so unsatisfactory after all.
Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Literature.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
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