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...SOMERSET MAUGHAM AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM by ROBERT LORIN CALDER 324 pages. Doubleday...
Robert Lorin Calder, an English teacher at the University of Saskatchewan, has written the kind of academic dissertation that is doomed to sit on the shelf as if in a jar, pickled. But the book's appendices, not just one but two, are inflamed with gossipy life...
...body of the book pursues -through every novel, play and story, good, bad or silly, that Maugham ever wrote - Calder's all-purpose insight that Maugham was preoccupied with the escape from bondage. Calder has dis covered, for example, that "examined in their entirety, Maugham's works contain over 300 images concerned with liberty or enslavement...
...Harvard salesmen Calder brought with him had a different point of view. They said they believe in what they are selling and that they each made between $2800 and $6000 last summer...
...Calder said his company sells books to "middle class families, people who don't know much about books and whose children could benefit from them." He refused to call selling "manipulation," preferring the term "persuasion...