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Somerset Maugham and the Maugham Dynasty

Door Bryan Connon

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#255274
Titel	Somerset Maugham and the Maugham Dynasty
Auteur	Connon, Bryan
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	1856192741
ISBN13	9781856192743
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Somerset Maugham and the Maugham Dynasty is a frank and uncompromising biography of the Maugham family from the 1800s to 1981. In Bryan Connon's vigorous reassessment of Willie Somerset Maugham's life, we see a different Maugham from the one of popular myth. Instead of the shy stuttering medical student, there is the young man about town thoroughly at home in the Louche social circles of Oscar Wilde's London. Throughout his brilliant career Willie led a double life: his marriage to Syrie was a sham and he spent much of it abroad with his American lover, Gerald Haxton, who had been barred from the UK as a security risk. In 1927 he finally left England to live on Cap Ferrat in the Villa Mauresque, dubbed by Noel Coward 'the other Vatican'. Here he played pontiff and received the famous and... (Lees verder) the infamous, everyone from royals to rent boys. In his final years, senile and manipulated by Alan Searle, his elderly and avaricious secretary-lover, he attempted to disown his daughter and adopt Searle as his son. The mockery that greeted this was kept from him, as was the anger and derision caused by his memoirs, in which he attacked his dead wife and claimed to be a red-blooded heterosexual. Also told in this book is the story of the life and work of wartime hero Robin, second Viscount Maugham, author of Come to Dust and The Servant.
Pagina's	396
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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