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'Razor's Edge,' in a new paperback, is Maugham in top form.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Frank Wilson
``The Razor's Edge'' by W. Somerset Maugham; Vintage ($13)
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`American women," Somerset Maugham tells one of his characters in "The Razor's Edge,'' "expect to find in their husbands a perfection English women only hope to find in their butlers."
Yes, "The Razor's Edge'' by W. Somerset Maugham includes among its characters a successful novelist and playwright by the name of _ Somerset Maugham.
Making himself a character in his novel was a canny maneuver: It lends a heightened verisimilitude to the narrative. Of course, Maugham the character and Maugham the man bear only a passing resemblance to each other. The character may well reflect the public persona Maugham adopted in real life, but the private Maugham was anything ...
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Byline: Frank Wilson ``Somerset Maugham: A Life'' by Jeffrey Meyers...The Painted Veil'' by Somerset Maugham; Vintage ($13) ___ On May 26, 1917, author Somerset Maugham _ at the time Britain's most...
- Somerset Maugham's full life satisfies as book.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Wilson, Frank March 24, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Frank Wilson ``Somerset Maugham: A Life'' by Jeffrey Meyers...The Painted Veil'' by Somerset Maugham; Vintage ($13) ___ On May 26, 1917, author Somerset Maugham _ at the time Britain's most...
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- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Calder, Robert L. September 22, 2005 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Macey, J. David, Jr. March 22, 1997 700+ words
...language of "civilized" society. Somerset Maugham knows--and shows--what...novelist who may or may not be Somerset Maugham. In Mansfield's opinion...the anonymous narrator or of Somerset Maugham. The Moon and Sixpence is a...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor February 17, 2004 700+ words
...a decent living by his pen, Somerset Maugham made a fortune from his writing...Maugham, and tracing the extent of Maugham's influence on other writers...the modern spy story began with Somerset Maugham's 'Ashenden' (1928...
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- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1965 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1965 Somerset Maugham English novelist Somerset Maugham pictured at age 91, shortly before he died...British. English. suits. English novelist Somerset Maugham pictured at age 91, shortly before he died...
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- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London Richard Davenport-Hines September 20, 2009 700+ words
Somerset Maugham was a slum doctor, an Edwardian man...calloused. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham is a story of sizzling passion, and...time and again betrayed. William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 in Paris, where...
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- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1960 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1960 William Somerset Maugham English novelist Somerset Maugham smokes a pipe as relaxes on his sofa, 1960...smoking. smokers. pipe. English novelist Somerset Maugham smokes a pipe as relaxes on his sofa, 1960...