In this little volume, originally a trio of articles for the Saturday Evening Post, Maugham holds forth on English, European, and American books that one "should" read. It's full of Maugham wit. Books and You的创作者 ··· 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆 作者 原文摘录 ··· ( 全部 ) 在第...
W.S.Maugham In this little volume, originally a trio of articles for the Saturday Evening Post, Maugham holds forth on English, European, and American books that one should read. It s full of Maugham wit.
Books and You (The works of W. Somerset Maugham) 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书 著者简介 英国小说家、戏剧家。生于律师家庭。父母早死,由伯父接回英国抚养。原来学医,后转而致力写作。他的作品常以冷静、客观乃至挑剔的态度审视人生,基调超然,带讽刺和怜悯意味,在国内外拥有大量读者。著名的有戏剧《圈子》,...
Prevost’s Manon Lescaut (short)Voltaires’s Candide (short)The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau2qFather Goriot, by BalzacStendhal’s The Red and the Black (his favorite novelist)Flaubert’s Madame BovaryAdolphe, by Benjamin Constant (short)The Mother-of-Pearl Case, by Anatole France (short...
For example, on the page where Aristotle refers to the causes of poetry, that phrase “deep in our nature” leads to the wordplay of “stochasm”, and its typographic displayenacts a chasm (or abyss if you’re feeling the Mallarméan vibrations). The first half of that wordplay comes fro...
Essays and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson Recommended By Patrick O'Shaughnessy Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "When I am feeling conventional (happens often), Emerson’s essay Self Reliance is my favorite antidote." Get on Amazon The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham Recommended By Patrick O'Shaughnessy Pat...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (2007) The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (1994) At Swim Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939) The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1944) Casino ...
Thank you Ti for hosting! I am glad to have read this and to know more about WSM. I will continue to praise The Painted Veil, as my Maugham favorite work. In Other News: I hit my goal of 100 books for the year! The pressure is off now. I also blew away my 5 year Classics ...
You might not like yourself for doing so in the middle of a graphic murder, but you will laugh more than you will recoil in horror. Image Credit: Picador 23 24 33. Cakes And Ale – Or, The Skeleton In The Cupboard - W. Somerset Maugham Buy now from Amazon The skeleton in the ...
This year I shall be taking part in theHistorical Fiction Reading Challenge, hosted by Marg ofThe Intrepid Reader and Baker. Reading Challenge details Each month, a new post dedicated to the HF Challenge will be created where you can add the links for the books you have read. To participate...