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[114] Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
Maugham states in his opening sentence that this novel could be also titled The Triumph of Love. It explores the delicacy of a difference in expectation of love and how this subtlety constitutes an un… more →
A Guy's Moleskine Notebook
A free man
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Joseph wrote 3 weeks ago: W. Somerset Maugham Writers are a self-conscious lot. When they are not analysing their emotions and … more →
Chicago, Il
delrosga wrote 3 weeks ago: “The dead look so terribly dead when they’re dead.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edg … more →
Tips For Adulthood: Five Reasons You Should Listen To The BBC
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delialloyd wrote 3 weeks ago: Every Wednesday I offer tips for adulthood. One of the many pleasures of living in the U.K. is that … more →
Bites: Hemingway's African Snows, Colson Whitehead on Your Next Novel, The Virtuousness of Swiss Prisons, and more
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Willa A. Cmiel wrote 3 weeks ago: Hemingway’s short story “The Snows of Kilimanjara” may make a resurgence in the co … more →
The momentary philosopher
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minisurat wrote 1 month ago: An excerpt from the article in Divya Bhaskar Sunday, dated 25 October 2009. દિવાળીના દિવસોમાં ઘોંઘાટ … more →
~ from The Moon and Sixpence
jscolley wrote 1 month ago: ~ from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham, 1919 I HAVE an idea that some men are born ou … more →
Anon - A Century Of Thrillers: Second Series
demonik wrote 1 month ago: Anon – A Century Of Thrillers: Second Series (Daily Express, 1935) Somerset Maugham – Th … more →
Keeping me on the strait and narrow
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Joseph wrote 1 month ago: Lanying is getting restless again. “When are you going to finish your novel? I can’t tak … more →
Noir Cinema: Somewhere In The Night
Screaming Blue Reviews wrote 1 month ago: Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s film noir dreamscape is a frustrating, haunting mystery of identity. … more →
day and night
meg wrote 1 month ago: still awestruck every time i see this in my moleskine..he just had such a way of capturing the hum … more →
Somerset Maugham's bondage
Seesaw wrote 1 month ago: By Jeremy Treglown Between 1913 and 1915, three part-autobiographical novels were published in Londo … more →
Booking Through Thursday - Discuss
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Sarah wrote 1 month ago: I was wanting to try a certain author and wished I knew someone who had read her works so I could ge … more →
Why Keep Old Friends?
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Carrie wrote 1 month ago: It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is … more →
Borges and His Precursors
bythefirelight wrote 1 month ago: Letras Libres‘ August issue included three stories that influenced some of Borges’ most … more →
On reading
Warren Langer wrote 2 months ago: “Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent … more →
Quote of the Day
Ariel Goldring wrote 2 months ago: If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that … more →
If death ends all...
soulangler wrote 2 months ago: If one puts aside the existence of God and the survival after life as too doubtful to have any effec … more →
"The saddest words of tongue or pen..." or, "Who cares?"
Kathy Waller wrote 4 months ago: We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.—Somerset Maugham After two da … more →
The snows of yesteryear
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Joseph wrote 4 months ago: Last week and this week I have been writing about a woman called Greta. I’m finding it really … more →
