W. Somerset Maugham

Herausgeber: Curtis, Anthony; Whitehead, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hugely popular English novelist and dramatist. Writings include: Of Human Bondage, The Circle, East of Suez. Volume covers the period 1897-1971.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780415849463
• ISBN-10: 0415849462
• Artikelnr.: 37085507

Autorenporträt

Anthony Curtis, John Whitehead

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Books; Liza of Lambeth; Chapter 1 Edward Garnett
reader's report on 'A Lambeth Idyll' for T. Fisher Unwin; Chapter 2 Unsigned review
Academy; Chapter 3 Jane H. Findlater
'The Slum Movement in Fiction'
National Review; The Making of a Saint; Chapter 4 Unsigned review
Literature; Chapter 5 Unsigned review
Academy; Orientations; Chapter 6 Unsigned review
Athenaeum; Chapter 7 Unsigned review
Academy; Mrs Craddock; Chapter 8 Unsigned review
'The Strong Crude Novel'
Academy and Literature; Chapter 9 A. St John Adcock
'Mr W.S. Maugham's New Novel'
Bookman (London); The Merry-Go-Round; Chapter 10 Unsigned review
Academy and Literature; Chapter 11 Unsigned review
Athenaeum; The Land of the Blessed Virgin; Chapter 12 Unsigned review
'Spain and the Spanish'
Athenaeum; Chapter 13
Virginia Woolf]
unsigned review
'Journeys in Spain'
Times Literary Supplement; The Bishop's Apron; Chapter 14 'The Baron de B[ook]-W[orms]'
Sir F.C. Burnand]
review
Punch; The Magician; Chapter 15 'Oliver Haddo'
Aleister Crowley]
'How to Write a Novel! After W.S. Maugham'
Vanity Fair (London); Chapter 16 Unsigned review
'A Feast of Horrors'
New York Times; Part 2 Plays; A Man of Honour; Chapter 17 E.K. Chambers
'Mr Maugham's Irony'
Academy and Literature; Chapter 18 Max Beerbohm
'An Uncommercial Play'
Saturday Review (London); Lady Frederick; Chapter 19 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; Chapter 20 Reginald Turner
review
Academy; Jack Straw; Chapter 21 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; Chapter 22 Max Beerbohm
review
Saturday Review (London); Mrs Dot; Chapter 23 Unsigned review
Illustrated London News; Chapter 24 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; The Explorer; Chapter 25 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; Chapter 26 Max Beerbohm
'How Dare He?' Saturday Review (London); Penelope; Chapter 27 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; Chapter 28 William Archer
'Penelope and Popularity'
Nation (London); Smith; Chapter 29 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; Chapter 30 Unsigned review
Athenaeum; The Tenth Man; Chapter 31 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; Grace (Landed Gentry); Chapter 32 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; Loaves and Fishes; Chapter 33 Unsigned review
'Mr Maugham's New Play'
Times; Chapter 34
A.A.] M[ilne]
review
Punch; The Land of Promise; Chapter 35 Unsigned review
'Maugham's Play Pleases at the Lyceum'
New York Times; Chapter 36 J.T. Grein
Review
Sunday Times; Chapter 37 S.O.
'Pygmalion (at Home and Abroad)'
English Review; Part 3 Books; Of Human Bondage; Chapter 38 Unsigned review
Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 39 Gerald Gould
review
New Statesman; Chapter 40 Unsigned review
Athenaeum; Chapter 41 Theodore Dreiser
'As a Realist Sees It'
New Republic; Chapter 42 Marcus Aurelius Goodrich
'After Ten Years of Of Human Bondage'
New York Times; The Moon and Sixpence; Chapter 43 K[atherine] M[ansfield]
'Inarticulations'
Athenaeum; Chapter 44 Unsigned review
'The Primitive Man'
Saturday Review (London); Chapter 45 Maxwell Anderson
'In Vishnu-Land What Avatar?' Dial; The Trembling of a Leaf; Chapter 46 Louise Maunsell Field
review
New York Times; Chapter 47 Unsigned review
Saturday Review (London); Chapter 48 Rebecca West
review
New Statesman; On a Chinese Screen; Chapter 49 Louise Maunsell Field
'Maugham's Chinese Sketches'
New York Times; Chapter 50 Gerald Gould
review
Saturday Review (London); The Painted Veil; Chapter 51 Unsigned review
'Mr Maugham Excels as a Craftsman'
New York Times; Chapter 52 P.C. Kennedy
review
New Statesman; Chapter 53 Unsigned review
Times Literary Supplement; The Casuarina Tree; Chapter 54 L.P. Hartley
review
Saturday Review (London); Chapter 55 Edwin Muir
review
Nation and Athenaeum; Chapter 56 Henry Albert Phillips
'In the Shadow of the Casuarina Tree'
New York Evening Post; Ashenden; Chapter 57 Edward Shanks
review
London Mercury; Chapter 58 D.H. Lawrence
'Four Contemporary Books'
Vogue; Chapter 59 Unsigned review
'Mr Maugham's Latest'
New York Times; The Gentleman in the Parlour; Chapter 60 Unsigned review
Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 61 Bellamy Part ridge
'Rare Traveler'
New York Herald Tribune; Chapter 62 Arthur Colton
'Travelling with Composure'
Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Cakes and Ale; Chapter 63 Ivor Brown
'Private Lives'
Observer; Chapter 64 Evelyn Waugh
'The Books You Read'
Graphic; Chapter 65 Leslie A. Marchand
'Maugham Paints a Sardonic Portrait'
New York Times; Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular; Chapter 66 Lee Wilson Dodd
'Set of Six'
Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Chapter 67 L. A. G. Strong
'The Test That Failed'
Spectator; The Narrow Corner; Chapter 68 Anne Armstrong
review
Saturday Review (London); Chapter 69 Florence Haxton Britten
'A Cynical
Gifted Story Teller'
New York Herald Tribune; Ah King; Chapter 70 William Plomer
review
Spectator; Chapter 71 Florence Haxton Britten
'Maugham's Tragic Tales'
New York Herald Tribune; Part 4 Plays; Caroline (the Unattainable); Chapter 72 J.T. Grein
review
Sunday Times; Our Betters; Chapter 73 Unsigned review
New York Evening Post; Chapter 74 Desmond MacCarthy
review
New Statesman; Caesar's Wife; Chapter 75 Unsigned review
Times; Chapter 76 William Archer
review
Weekly Review (New York); Home and Beauty (Too Many Husbands); Chapter 77
Aldous] H[uxley]
'A Good Farce'
Athenaeum; Chapter 78 Alexander Woollcott
'A Delightful Maugham Farce'
New York Times; The Unknown; Chapter 79 Unsigned review
Times; Chapter 80 Frank Swinnerton
review
Nation (London); The Circle; Chapter 81 Desmond MacCarthy
review
New Statesman; Chapter 82 W.J. Turner
review
London Mercury; East of Suez; Chapter 83 James Agate
'West of Suez'
Saturday Review (London); Chapter 84 Desmond MacCarthy
review
New Statesman; The Constant Wife; Chapter 85 Robert Benchley
'Something Good'
Life; Chapter 86 Ivor Brown
'Heartless House'
Saturday Review (London); The Letter; Chapter 87 Unsigned review
Times; Chapter 88 Ivor Brown
'Here Are Tigers'
Saturday Review (London); The Sacred Flame; Chapter 89 J. Brooks Atkinson
'Murder Will Out at II'
New York Times; Chapter 90 J.T. Grein
'Three Leading Ladies'
Illustrated London News; The Breadwinner; Chapter 91 Desmond MacCarthy
'Two Comedies'
New Statesman; Chapter 92 J.B. Priestley
'A Letter from England'
Saturday Review of Literature (New York); For Services Rendered; Chapter 93 Peter Fleming
review
Spectator; Chapter 94 J.T. Grein
'Two Gifted Pessimists'
Illustrated London News; Sheppey; Chapter 95 Desmond MacCarthy
'Mr Maugham's New Play'
New Statesman; Chapter 96 J.T. Grein
'Somerset Maugham's New Play'
Illustrated London News; Part 5 Books; East and West; Altogether; Chapter 97 Louis Kronenberger
'The Story-Telling Art of Mr Maugham'
New York Times; Chapter 98 Raymond Mortimer
'Re-reading Mr Maugham'
New Statesman and Nation; Chapter 99 Graham Greene
'Maugham's Short Stories'
Spectator; Don Fernando; Chapter 100 Graham Greene
'Spanish Gold'
Spectator; Chapter 101 Raymond Mortimer
'Mr Maugham'
New Statesman and Nation; Chapter 102 Terence Holliday
'The Love Story of Mr Maugham and Spain'
New York Herald Tribune; Chapter 103 Osbert Sitwell
'The Spain of Somerset Maugham'
London Mercury; Cosmopolitans; Chapter 104 Florence Haxton Britten
review
New York Herald Tribune; Chapter 105 Unsigned review
'Mr Maugham's Mixture as Before'
Times; Theatre; Chapter 106 Bernard DeVoto
'Master of Two Dimensions'
Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Chapter 107 Elizabeth Bowen
'A Straight Novel'
New Statesman and Nation; The Summing Up; Chapter 108 Montgomery Belgion
review
Criterion; Chapter 109 Graham Greene
'Maugham's Pattern'
Spectator; Chapter 110 Stephen Vincent Benét
'A Self-Taught Trade'
Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Chapter 111 Malcolm Cowley
'The Maugham Enigma'
New Republic; Christmas Holiday; Chapter 112 Evelyn Waugh
'The Technician'
Spectator; Chapter 113 Richard A. Cordell
'Five-Day Adventure'
Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Books and You; Chapter 114 Lorine Pruette
'How to Like to Read'
New York Herald Tribune; The Mixture as Before; Chapter 115 V.S. Pritchett
review
New Statesman and Nation; Chapter 116 Iris Barry
'Midsummer Nights' Fare'
New York Herald Tribune; Up at the Villa; Chapter 117 Morton Dauwen Zabel
'A Cool Hand'
Nation (New York); Chapter 118 Pamela Hansford Johnson
'Bread and Circuses'
Books of the Month; The Hour Before the Dawn; Chapter 119 Unsigned review
Nation (New York); Chapter 120 R. Ellis Roberts
The Art of Somerset Maugham'
Saturday Review of Literature (New York); The Razor's Edge; Chapter 121 Joseph Warren Beach
'Maugham Considers Mystics'
New York Times; Chapter 122 Diana Trilling
review
Nation (New York); Chapter 123 Kate O'Brien
review
Spectator; Chapter 124 Cyril Connolly
'The Art of Being Good'
New Statesman and Nation; Then and Now; Chapter 125 V.C. Clinton-Baddeley
review
Spectator; Chapter 126 Edmund Wilson
'Somerset Maugham and an Antidote'
New Yorker; Creatures of Circumstance; Chapter 127 Olivia Manning
review
Spectator; Chapter 128 Charles Lee
'Mr Maugham
Still Urbane'
New York Times; Catalina; Chapter 129 Paul Bloomfield
review
Manchester Guardian; Chapter 130 Orville Prescott
review
New York Times; Great Novelists and Their Novels; Ten novels and Their a Authors; Chapter 131 John W. Aldridge
'Mr Maugham's Ten Sheared Candidates'
Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Chapter 132 Noël Annan
review
New Statesman and Nation; A Writer's Notebook; Chapter 133 Charles Morgan
'Maugham's Workshop'
Spectator; Chapter 134 V.S. Pritchett
review
New Statesman and Nation; Chapter 135 W.H. Auden
'Notebooks of Somerset Maugham'
New York Times; Chapter 136 S.N. Behrman
'The Notes of a Popular Pessimist'
New Yorker; The Vagrant Mood; Chapter 137 Sir John Squire
'Somerset Maugham as Essayist'
Illustrated London News; Chapter 138 Christopher Morley
'The Maugham Seesaw'
New York Times; Points of View; Chapter 139 Frank Kermode
'Eminently Readable'
Manchester Guardian; Chapter 140 Karl G. Pfeiffer
'Mr Maugham's Valedictory'
New York Herald Tribune; Part 6 General Studies (1919-1965); Chapter 141 J.P. Collins
'W. Somerset Maugham
Playwright and Novelist'
Bookman (London); Chapter 142 H.E. Bates on the modern short story; Chapter 143 Sewell Stokes
'W. Somerset Maugham'
Theatre Arts (New York); Chapter 144 Unsigned leading article
'Somerset Maugham'
Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 145 Unsigned leading article
'Maugham at 80'
New York Times; Chapter 146 John Raymond
review of The Maugham Enigma*An Anthology of Criticism
ed. K.W. Jonas (London
1954). and The Vagrant Mood
New Statesman and Nation; Chapter 147 J.D. Scott
'The Maugham Effect'
Spectator; Chapter 148 Christopher Isherwood on the Eastern stories; Chapter 149 Walter Allen
'Summing up Somerset Maugham at 90'
New York Times; Chapter 150 Cyril Connolly
'Maugham: Compassionate Cynic'
Sunday Times;