Word: maugham
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...could govern." At the same time, he enjoyed the life of a country squire. In the more relaxed world of provincial politics, Kiesinger had time for hikes through the Black Forest, for evenings with his family, and for his books (among his favorite authors: Jacob Burckhardt, Alexis de Tocqueville, Maugham, Hemingway...
Franchise Sagan is a Gallic Maugham who knows instinctively how deep to probe, what not to say, and when to quit. Her swift vignettes, like Maugham's, are the product of a far more complex and searching intelligence than cold type exposes, and her novels are like fragile sand dollars-elegant, delicate designs...
...Servant, The Slaves of Timbuktu). And although the effect is morbid, it is by far the best part of the book, which is otherwise devoted to a soporific account of the family genealogy. Death watches can be questioned on grounds of taste, but it is certainly true that Willie Maugham did not die well...
...last chapters of Maugham's own story gave the world a view that it had tended to forget or ignore. His admitted homosexuality got a fresh airing during his celebrated 1963 court fight. He had married Syrie Wellcome and fathered a child, and then was divorced in 1927. Maugham wanted to leave the bulk of his possessions to his secretary and male companion of 36 years. His daughter, Lady Glendevon, took Maugham to court, and after a lot of nasty publicity, he lost the case. Vowing, after The Summing Up, never again to sift through...
...disservice to one of the world's best storytellers to revive those last ungraceful chapters of his life, but it helps to give his readers perspective. Maugham himself, granted the chance, would surely have rewritten them. "Dying is a very dull, dreary affair," he once said. "And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with...