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This is Somerset Maugham's 22nd novel. He has announced that it is also to be his last. If he sticks to that, 74-year-old Author Maugham, England's most popular contemporary novelist, will have brought to an end a career that has included such lasting favorites as Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale, and The Moon and Sixpence, as well as 57 volumes of short stories, essays, travel books and plays...
CATALINA (275 pp.) - W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
...vanity is being appealed to, the confidence of the soldier, and his subsequent humiliation, the embarrassment of the baker at his unexpected prominence, and the emotion of the town at the thought of a genuine miracle occurring in its midst, are artfully handled. Once the miracle has happened, Maugham's imagination appears to have failed him; false notes become a little too frequent, and the introduction of Don Quixote in person is a little too much...
Artistic and financial success welcomed the four owner-producers of the Cambridge Summer Playhouse to their newly acquired theater this summer. Over 2500 playgoers jammed Brattle Hall every week to witness professional productions by Shaw, Shakespeare, Maugham, O'Casey, and other play-wrights...
...Novelist Maugham had also contributed prefaces to each volume revealing "intimate and startling details of the romantic and domestic side" of each author. The first two of these treasures will be published next week, entitled W. Somerset Maugham Presents Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and W. Somerset Maugham Presents Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. The $3.50 price tag might seem high, though, to readers who could get the same books entire-without Mr. Maugham's abridgments...