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The Short Story in Essays by Divers Hands (1950) – W. Somerset Maugham
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"The Short Story." Essays by Divers Hands Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom. London: Oxford University Press, 1950. 120-134.This is an interesting volume for me not only because of W. Somerset Maugham's lecture, but also because it was edited by Sir Edward Marsh, whom I have talked about in some details in an earlier post. He was a very learnt man and apparently a kind and ge…
Of Human Bondage – Is It Worth While?
Review of Of Human BondageI came across an interesting old review of Of Human Bondage (1915), published on 18 August 1915, exactly a hundred years ago and five days after the novel came out in Britain, in Daily Telegraph.
It was written by W. L. Courtney and was not selected by Curtis and Whitehead in their anthology of contemporary criticism of Maugham's works, The Critical Heritage.
I don't find W. L. Courtney in the anthology, but in Wikipedia there is a brief outline of who he w…
Analysis: "To lead you to an overwhelming question ...": Points of View (1958) by W. Somerset Maugham
Points of View (1958) - W. Somerset MaughamPoints of View (London: Heinemann, 1958)
Points of View is a collection of essays by W. Somerset Maugham, first printed in 1958, the penultimate work in book form that the author published.
It consists of five essays: "The Three Novels of a Poet," "The Saint," "Prose and Dr. Tillotson," "The Short Story," and "Three Journalists." From what Stott registers, it seems that only "The Saint" was pu…
W. Somerset Maugham and Noilly Prat
Although this post may seem like a commercial for Noilly Prat, I assure you that it is not.Some time ago I came across this page of advertisement on sale, and I have to say that I fully agree with W. Somerset Maugham, yet again. Lamentably, where I am now, Noilly Prat is not to be got. It should not be a problem, since I tend to believe that nothing is indispensable, but you know how the mind can trick you. For some time I made do with Dolin... however, memory lingers, in the funniest way.�…