Samuel J. Rogal
Autore di A William Somerset Maugham Encyclopedia
Sull'Autore
Samuel J. Rogal, a retired professor of English, has published numerous scholarly books and articles on English literature. He lives in La Salle, Illinois.
Opere di Samuel J. Rogal
Congregational Hymns from the Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier: A Comparative Study of the Sources and Final Works,… (2009) 4 copie
A Calendar of Literary Facts: A Daily and Yearly Guide to Noteworthy Events in World Literature from 1450 to the… (1991) 3 copie
The American Pre-College Military School: A History and Comprehensive Catalog of Institutions (2009) 3 copie
Sisters of sacred song : a selected listing of women hymnodists in Great Britain and America (1981) 3 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborn's the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) : Volume XI, Part… (2012) 2 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume V,… (2010) 2 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume IV :… (2010) 2 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume III :… (2010) 2 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume II :… (2010) 2 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume I :… (2009) 2 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume VIII… (2011) 2 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborn's The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) : With the… (2013) 2 copie
A Chronological Outline of American Literature: (Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature) (1987) 2 copie
New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume VII :… (2010) 2 copie
A William Somerset Ma¾‘A~BàB~i 1 copia
Agriculture in Britain and America, 1660-1820 : an annotated bibliography of the eighteenth-century literature (1994) 1 copia
How Biographers Ignore the Influence of Mothers in the Lives of Great Men: The Patriarchal Suppression of the Role of… (2015) 1 copia
An Analysis of Various Versions of A.m. Toplady's "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me" 1774-2001 (Texts and Studies in… (2003) 1 copia
The children's jubilee : a bibliographical survey of hymnals for infants, youth, and Sunday schools published in… (1983) 1 copia
A New and Critical Edition of George Osborn's the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872): With the… (2009) 1 copia
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All the individuals and personalities readers have come to know through Maugham's fiction are here: Cronshaw ('Of Human Bondage'), Leslie Crosby ('The Letter,' with separate listings for the story and the play), Sadie Thompson ('Rain'), Charles Strickland ('The Moon and Sixpence'), the evil Oliver Haddo ('The Magician'), and the unforgettable Elliott Templeton ('The Razor's Edge'). Major characters get up to a half - page of description, while others may get no more than a sentence or phrase. Countless entries are given over to minor characters, including those without names or identities. Thus, we have 2 pages of listings for "Maid" and "Maiden", 3 pages of "Lady", 4 of "Narrator" and 9 pages of "Man". I thought I had found one odd omission -- I couldn't locate the famous "Liza" (of 'Liza of Lambeth') -- until I realized that she was listed under her last name ("Kemp, Liza").
While all of the novels and short stories are included, the travel books and other non-fiction are not. At the back of the book is a listing of editions and secondary sources consulted. This is followed by a list of titles of the novels and short stories with references to the pages on which their various characters are listed. Thus, "Ashenden" refers the reader to > 100 pages, and "Mrs Craddock" to > 140 pages -- numbers that may seem surprising unless one recalls that each character warrants a separate listing, even those without names. For the reader to have to refer to that many pages makes it difficult to locate all the characters in a given novel; an alternative would have been to give each character listed a number (1, 2, etc.) to make them easier to locate via the index.
An enormous amount of work went into this encyclopedia, but it is hard to imagine it being of much use to any but the most earnest of Maugham-a-philes and scholars. I gained a few minutes of enjoyment revisiting some of my favorites, but expect this book will sit on my "Maugham" shelves as a seldom- consulted reference. It represents a companion volume to Samuel Rogal's A William Somerset Maugham Encyclopedia, arguably a more useful work.… (altro)