The Novels of W. Somerset Maugham
- Description
- Chronological list of all novels by W. Somerset Maugham. Up at the Villa can also be considered as a longish short story, but here it is taken for a novel.
- Créée à partir du mot-clé
- Maugham Novels
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6,218 membres
115 critiques
4.1
Score 5.94
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
- 2 Members
- Waldstein, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explications
- Waldstein: 1944-04-18; limited edition signed by the author; trade edition published two days later. Last major novel. Epic in scope and often wrongly considered to be mainly about Larry. It is, in fact, as much about Isabel and Elliott. They all seek salvation. They all find this is as hard to achieve as the razor's edge is sharp.
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1,951 membres
41 critiques
3.8
Score 5.51
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
- 2 Members
- Waldstein, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explications
- Waldstein: 1930-09-29. WSM's favourite book by his own admission. A devastating satire of the literary world and the most explicit romance (in the traditional sense of the word) in all of Maugham. Masterful first-person narrative. Possibly even more autobiographical than Of Human Bondage.
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3,402 membres
62 critiques
3.9
Score 5.29
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
- 2 Members
- Waldstein, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explications
- Waldstein: 1919-04. First "exotic" novel, partly set in Tahiti. Penetrating study of artistic genius and social hypocrisy.
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41 membres
1 critique
½ 3.5
Score 3.36
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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- Member
- Waldstein
- Explications
- Waldstein: 1902-11. Written third but published fourth, and mutilated, due to censorship. Restored and revised edition, with a new preface, 1928. Later reprinted in The Collected Edition (1937). Preface expanded as late as 1955. The story of a passionate and independent woman. Way ahead of its time.
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168 membres
4 critiques
3.8
Score 2.68
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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119 membres
2 critiques
2.8
Score 2.46
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:42 PM
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- Member
- Waldstein
- Explications
- Waldstein: 1908-11. A bizarre exercise in black magic. Protagonist Oliver Haddo notoriously based on Aleister Crowley. When it was published in November 1908, WSM was already famous as a playwright and couldn't care less about the novel. He finally decided, in 1956, after years of wondering, to include it in The Collected Edition. The new "A Fragment of Autobiography" he wrote for the occasion is more important than the novel.
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8,459 membres
146 critiques
4.1
Score 2.31
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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3,448 membres
137 critiques
3.9
Score 2.2
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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513 membres
6 critiques
½ 3.6
Score 2.03
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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839 membres
29 critiques
½ 3.6
Score 2
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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67 membres
1 critique
½ 2.6
Score 1.97
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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499 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.5
Score 1.92
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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6 membres
5
Score 1.87
Ajouté 2016-11-16, 01:58 PM
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- Explications
- Waldstein : 1950. Abridged edition. New preface by WSM. It remains unclear who did the abridgement, but this is certainly a different novel than the original. Much too much - almost one half - is missing. Not recommended.
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5 membres
3
Score -1000
Ajouté 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM