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Classical in form, cool, spare and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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- Author
- William Somerset Maugham
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 299
- Publisher
- Heron, Heron Books, Arno Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780405078552
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William Somerset Maugham was born at the British Embassy in Paris, France, where his father was an English lawyer handling the legal affairs of the British embassy. His mother died of tuberculosis while he was young, a death which traumatized him for life. Two years later, his father died of cancer, and he was sent to England to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent. His uncle was cold and cruel, and the boarding school he attended, The King's School in Canterbury, was also miserable for him. At sixteen, he refused to continue at The King's School and he was allowed to travel to Germany, where he studied literature, philosophy and German at Heid
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