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The Vagrant Mood

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781407074740

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • RRP: £9.98

The Vagrant Mood

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781407074740

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • RRP: £9.98

Reviews

  • "One of the most cosmopolitan English writers"

    Washington Post

  • "One of my favourite writers"

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • "A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents...precision, tact, irony and total absence of pomposity"

    Spectator

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About the Author

W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965

W. Somerset Maugham

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