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...Marseilles harbor, Somerset Maugham, 79, boarded the liner Iskendum bound for Istanbul. Said he: "I'm going to Turkey to see again the Bosporus, which I have not seen for such a long time. It's a pleasure trip. It will be my last...
Such productivity brought Bennett fame, fortune (an annual income in later years of as much as $100,000), a yacht, a grand house in Cadogan Square, a wife, a mistress, and the friendship of such contemporaries as H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook, Bernard Shaw. During his lifetime, his love of good clothes and good living gave Bennett a reputation as a fop, a popular caricature which the publication of his Journal in 1932-33 did little to change. Biographer Pound now takes a look behind the dandyism, the snobbishness and the preoccupation with money, and finds...
...Vagrant Mood, by Somerset Maugham. Half a dozen gossipy sketches and essays on some of the friends and interests of a lifetime (TIME, April...
...Vagrant Mood, by Somerset Maugham. Half a dozen gossipy sketches and essays on some of the friends and interests of a lifetime (TIME, April...
...Boston was quick to note, Sutherland is a ferocious artist. Except in such conventional portraits as his full-length painting of Somerset Maugham (TIME, June 13, 1949), he loads his canvas with writhing roots, needle-sharp thorns, blasted trees and immense grasshoppers. There is nothing passively pastoral about Sutherland's nature: his leggy insects and pitiful vegetables are all raw, anguished forms with some of the same kind of supernatural ferocity that Goya got into his bleeding bulls and brutish, Napoleonic troopers...