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Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. Five essays in the tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. Five civilized conversational essays, another "absolutely last" book by the Old Party, in the engaging tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
Sixth Sense. More than 80 novels, plays and volumes of short stories have made Maugham one of the most widely read writers in the world-and one of the richest. He makes no bones about money and the pleasures it buys: a villa on the Riviera, good cigars, expensive paintings, luxurious travel. As he once put it: "I had no intention of living on a crust in a garret if I could help it. I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five." Maugham...
...writes about the short story, the novels of Goethe, a Hindu swami he once met, three French writers who kept personal and controversial journals, and about the life and writings of Dr. Tillotson, a 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits), and he says very little that is original. Yet the effect is that of a good conversationalist quietly voicing some private enthusiasms over some very good...
Sound of the Swan. The "Old Party," as Maugham calls himself, says he now has "an extraordinary sense of freedom, like a mother who has just had her last one." In spite of cheerfully resigned remarks about imminent death, he is in sound health, reads, entertains, eats and drinks well, and is planning a trip around the world that will include the Far Eastern settings (Burma, Thailand, Japan) of some of his best-known stories. And though this is absolutely his last book, he is still writing. "I am still amusing myself putting down different things that occur...