Word: maugham-doubleday
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...millan ($2.50). INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). THE LADY OF THE BOAT - Lady Murasaki-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). LIGHT IN AUGUST-William Faulkner -Smith & Haas ($2.50). LIMITS & RENEWALS-Rudyard Kipling -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy -Doubleday, Doran ($2). A MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY-Nordhoff & Hall-Little, Brown ($2.50). THE NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1919 - John Dos Passos - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). OBSCURE DESTINIES-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). THE PAST RECAPTURED-Marcel Proust -Boni ($2.50). PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). THE SHELTERED LIFE-Ellen...
...NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though Publishers Doubleday, Doran blurb The Narrow Corner as if it were another Of Human Bondage, it is not. Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit...