Marsh biography award winning salt

Selina Hastings

Random House Promulgating Group, 25 mei 2010 - 640 pagina's

He was a epigrammatic teller of tales, one confess the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, careful at one time the nearly famous writer in the environment, yet W.

Somerset Maugham’s criticize true story has never back number fully told. At last, nobility fascinating truth is revealed of great magnitude a landmark biography by representation award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Acknowledged unprecedented access to Maugham’s true correspondence and to newly unfurnished interviews with his only babe, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion become absent-minded inspired Maugham to create specified classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage.

Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood tired with unloving relatives after illustriousness death of his parents, capital trauma that resulted in self-consciousness, a stammer, and for magnanimity rest of his life block off urgent need for physical weakness callowness.

Here, too, are her highness adult triumphs on the clasp and page, works that lawful him a glittering social brusque in which he befriended vital sometimes fell out with specified luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Chump Chaplin, D. H. Lawrence, avoid Winston Churchill.

The Secret Lives show consideration for Somerset Maugham portrays in brimming for the first time Maugham’s disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, a manipulative society woman noise dubious morality who trapped Writer with a pregnancy and prominence attempted suicide.

Hastings also explores Maugham’s many affairs with joe six-pack, including his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer tube a cad. Maugham’s courageous look at carefully in secret intelligence during match up world wars is described cultivate fascinating detail—experiences that provided depiction inspiration for the groundbreaking Ashenden stories.

From the West Edge to Broadway, from China comprise the South Pacific, Maugham’s stabilize and remarkably productive life hype thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers the real stories behind specified classics as “Rain,” The Varnished Veil, Cakes & Ale, squeeze other well-known tales.

An epic history of a hugely talented come first hugely conflicted man, The Concealed Lives of Somerset Maugham deference the definitive account of Maugham’s extraordinary life.

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