Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That old storyteller Somerset Maugham expounds his literary theorizing to the full at the outset of "Quartet." It seems that during his lifetime he has woven his experiences into his stories till now, looking back, he can't separate the fact from the fiction. Perhaps it was this sort of profundity that led critics to label him "superficial" at the age of sixty. But what Maugham lacks in depth he often makes up for in speed. His talents as playwright often outshone his skill with fiction for the very reason that the man could make a clever little plot move...
...words "Black Magic." She dunked a toe in the icy waters, announced that she was not really scared, and struck out in the general direction of Dover, England. For fame, for fortune, and for Scripps-Howard and United Artists, grease-coated, 17-year-old Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass. was trying to swim the English Channel...
Quartet. Skillful British treatment of four Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...
Quartet. A skillful British treatment of four Somerset Maugham stories (TIME...
Quartet. A skillful British treatment of four Somerset Maugham stories (TIME...