Cakes and Ale [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2000] Somerset Maugham

Literature & Fiction

Somerset, Maugham

Contemporary

VINTAGE (RAND)

The Great War changed everything and the years following it were tumultuous - most of all for those who lived the war first-hand.  Maugham himself is a character in this novel of self-discovery and search for meaning, but the protagonist is a character named Larry.  Battered physically and spiritually by the war, Larry's physical wounds heal, but his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition.  He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel.  He studies philosophy and religion in Paris.  He lives as a monk.  He witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life.  All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring '20s.  Maugham's theme is the contrast of spiritual content between Larry and the growing materialism and sophistication of those he left behind - and the surprising irony of where both of those paths lead.

The Razor's Edge

Literary

Pocket

Great Stories of the South Seas The Pacific.  Mackintosh.  The Fall of Edward Barnard.  Red.  The Pool.  Honolulu.  Rain.  Envoi.

Trembling Of A Leaf

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Merry-go-round

"  It was the first Saturday afternoon in August; it had been broiling hot all day, with a cloudless sky, and the sun had been beating down on the houses, so that the top rooms were like ovens; but now with the approach of evening it was cooler, and everyone in Vere Street was out of doors.   Vere street, Lambeth, is a short, straight street leading out of the Westminster Bridge Road; it has forty houses on one side and forty houses on the other, and these eighty houses are very much more like one another than ever peas are like peas, or young ladies like young ladies. They are newish, three-storied buildings of dingy grey brick with slate roofs, and they are perfectly flat, without a bow-window or even a projecting cornice or window-sill to break the straightness of the line from one end of the street to the other.   This Saturday afternoon the street was full of life; no traffic came down Vere Street, and the cemented space between the pavements was given up to children. [...]"

Liza Of Lambeth

A story of the proud Allertons whose fortune has been squandered, and whose three-hundred-year estate Hamlyn’s Purlieu stands to be lost to the family. Lucy and George Allerton, brother and sister, are resolved to overcome the mistakes of their father, Fred Allerton. A powerful exploration of relationships and familial bonds by a true master of the human psyche.

Explorer

William Somerset Maugham CH was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.

The Moon and Sixpence

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she has found an adoring if conventional beau in Tom. When she meets Jim Blakeston, a married man new to the area, she is immediately magnetized by his attentions. But the streets are wise to their affair. William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s.

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Cakes and Ale [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2000] Somerset Maugham

The Razor's Edge

Trembling Of A Leaf

Merry-go-round

Liza Of Lambeth

Explorer

Liza Of Lambeth

The Moon and Sixpence

Liza Of Lambeth

Magician