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Analysis: "A Woman Who Wouldn't Quit" (1942) by W. Somerset Maugham
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"A Woman Who Wouldn't Quit." This Week Magazine, 4 January, 1942.I came across a most interesting piece recently, now finally I have it in front of me. A short story written by W. Somerset Maugham called "A Woman Who Wouldn't Quit." You wouldn't find it anywhere else under that title. It was not recorded by Stott, but it was collected in John Whitehead's A Traveller in Romance. Uncollected Wr…
Nordrach-on-Dee Destroyed - W. Somerset Maugham's Sanatorium
Home > Blog > © Copyright Alan Findlay and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons LicenceYesterday in the news was the destruction of one of the historic landmarks of some significance in Maugham studies. Glen O'Dee, known in Maugham's time as Nordrach-on-Dee, was burnt down by "wilful fire" according to the BBC. The building had a typical history of the grand construction of the last centuries. It was built at the turn of the 20th century as a sanatorium. Howev…
The Magician (1908) – The Colonial Edition
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The Magician (London: Heinemann, 1908)My fifth copy of The Magician. Yes, incredible. What is special about this one is that it is a Heinemann colonial edition, which I haven't seen before. I don't mean it is unknown, just that I personally haven't seen one before, and you can imagine how thrilled I am!Stott mentions this edition in his bibliography, but its description is a bit different from my copy.I do like thi…
Analysis of "A Traveller in Romance" (1909): A Narrative of Strangeness
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"A Traveller in Romance." Printers' Pie (1909): 97-100."A Traveller in Romance," the very phrase must have caught John Whitehead's fancy when he published his volume of uncollected writings by W. Somerset Maugham under the same title. The story was written in 1909 when Maugham was thirty-five, published in quite an unlikely venue: Printers' Pie.Printers' Pie was an annual publication (shortly I will talk more about th…