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... novels , Of Human Bondage is taken by many people to be Maugham's masterpiece , his " one great novel , " according to Malcolm Cowley , who speculated on what he called the Somerset Maugham enig- ma : " Why has he never written another ...
... novels , Of Human Bondage is taken by many people to be Maugham's masterpiece , his " one great novel , " according to Malcolm Cowley , who speculated on what he called the Somerset Maugham enig- ma : " Why has he never written another ...
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... novels , but I think that only serves to displace the central question . It is true that the best of Maugham's stories are as good as the best of his novels , but the ques- tion is , How good is that ? Maugham himself thought he had ...
... novels , but I think that only serves to displace the central question . It is true that the best of Maugham's stories are as good as the best of his novels , but the ques- tion is , How good is that ? Maugham himself thought he had ...
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... novels are of no great consequence . They are either fragments of autobiography or are compiled from the careful notes he took of people with whom he was thrown into close contact , and can hardly be counted as novels at all . He was so ...
... novels are of no great consequence . They are either fragments of autobiography or are compiled from the careful notes he took of people with whom he was thrown into close contact , and can hardly be counted as novels at all . He was so ...
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