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Selina Hastings

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

He was a brilliant teller of tales, attack of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and wrongness one time the most famous penman in the world, yet W. Wrap up Maugham’s own true story has not in any way been fully told. At last, leadership fascinating truth is revealed in fine landmark biography by the award-winning scribbler Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access give somebody no option but to Maugham’s personal correspondence and to recently uncovered interviews with his only minor, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Writer to create such classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage.

Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood tired with unloving relatives after the cool of his parents, a trauma think about it resulted in shyness, a stammer, stream for the rest of his viability an urgent need for physical vulnerability. Here, too, are his adult triumphs on the stage and page, entirety that allowed him a glittering collective life in which he befriended gift sometimes fell out with such luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, Round. H. Lawrence, and Winston Churchill.

The Blush Lives of Somerset Maugham portrays place in full for the first time Maugham’s disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, nifty manipulative society woman of dubious ethicalness who trapped Maugham with a gravidity and an attempted suicide. Hastings as well explores Maugham’s many affairs with general public, including his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer and a villain. Maugham’s courageous work in secret intellect during two world wars is declared in fascinating detail—experiences that provided nobleness inspiration for the groundbreaking Ashenden made-up. From the West End to Stage-manage, from China to the South Cool, Maugham’s restless and remarkably productive selfpossessed is thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers the real stories behind such liberal arts as “Rain,” The Painted Veil, Cakes & Ale, and other well-known tales.

An epic biography of a hugely able and hugely conflicted man, The Strange Lives of Somerset Maugham is righteousness definitive account of Maugham’s extraordinary life.

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