The Novels of W. Somerset Maugham
- Descrizione
- Chronological list of all novels by W. Somerset Maugham. Up at the Villa can also be considered as a longish short story, but here it is taken for a novel.
- Basata sull'etichetta
- Maugham Novels
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6,266 utenti
118 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 5.94
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
- 2 Members
- Waldstein, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- Waldstein: 1944-04-18; limited edition signed by the author; trade edition published two days later. Last major novel. Epic in scope and often wrongly considered to be mainly about Larry. It is, in fact, as much about Isabel and Elliott. They all seek salvation. They all find this is as hard to achieve as the razor's edge is sharp.
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1,962 utenti
41 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 5.51
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
- 2 Members
- Waldstein, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- Waldstein: 1930-09-29. WSM's favourite book by his own admission. A devastating satire of the literary world and the most explicit romance (in the traditional sense of the word) in all of Maugham. Masterful first-person narrative. Possibly even more autobiographical than Of Human Bondage.
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3,429 utenti
62 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 5.29
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
- 2 Members
- Waldstein, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- Waldstein: 1919-04. First "exotic" novel, partly set in Tahiti. Penetrating study of artistic genius and social hypocrisy.
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477 utenti
14 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
5
41 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.5
Punteggio 3.36
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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408 utenti
9 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 2.83
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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- Waldstein
- Spiegazioni
- Waldstein: 1902-11. Written third but published fourth, and mutilated, due to censorship. Restored and revised edition, with a new preface, 1928. Later reprinted in The Collected Edition (1937). Preface expanded as late as 1955. The story of a passionate and independent woman. Way ahead of its time.
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169 utenti
4 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 2.68
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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119 utenti
2 recensioni
2.8
Punteggio 2.46
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:42 PM
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929 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 2.38
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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- Waldstein
- Spiegazioni
- Waldstein: 1908-11. A bizarre exercise in black magic. Protagonist Oliver Haddo notoriously based on Aleister Crowley. When it was published in November 1908, WSM was already famous as a playwright and couldn't care less about the novel. He finally decided, in 1956, after years of wondering, to include it in The Collected Edition. The new "A Fragment of Autobiography" he wrote for the occasion is more important than the novel.
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8,504 utenti
146 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 2.31
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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3,471 utenti
137 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 2.2
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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575 utenti
10 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 2.11
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
15
729 utenti
11 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 2.07
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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522 utenti
7 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 2.03
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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67 utenti
1 recensione
½ 2.6
Punteggio 1.97
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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502 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 1.92
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
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442 utenti
5 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 1.89
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:40 PM
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6 utenti
5
Punteggio 1.87
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:58 PM
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58 utenti
½ 1.5
Punteggio -2
Aggiunto 2016-11-16, 01:41 PM
- Spiegazioni
- Waldstein : 1950. Abridged edition. New preface by WSM. It remains unclear who did the abridgement, but this is certainly a different novel than the original. Much too much - almost one half - is missing. Not recommended.
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5 utenti
3
Punteggio -1000
Aggiunto 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM