Word: maughams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Religious experience, the guru's widow reminds Paul, "cannot be explained with words." Still, novels are but words, and Brown makes a brave attempt at a nearly impossible task. Even that shrewd old storyteller, Somerset Maugham, chose to avoid a confrontation with the issue in The Razor's Edge; his young American hero found self-transcendence in India, but Maugham never explained the religious experience itself...
...Somerset Maugham of adultery, Maurois framed his stories as conversations, recollections, letters. Their narrative line is sure, their characters well etched, their climaxes cutting. With a wave of his magician's hand he dismisses doubt. Maurois himself thought his stories "may be the best things I have written." Perhaps. More likely they are best as clues to his personality and his success...
SHAW FESTIVAL, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. G.B.S. comes into his own here, with Arms and the Man until July 15, and Major Barbara from Aug. 16 through Sept. 10. Maugham's The Circle will be performed July 19 through...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey in Of Human Bondage (1964), Somerset Maugham's classic story of unrequited love in Edwardian England...
...Perhaps what gives her writing its peculiar tang," wrote Somerset Maugham, "is her gift for seeing something to laugh at in the bitterest tragedies of the human animal." Her own life started in bitter circumstances. She was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 in West End, N.J., of a Scotch mother who died during her infancy and a Jewish father who died, leaving her penniless, when she was in her teens...