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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

作者:Hastings,Selina 
出版社:Random House Inc
出版日期:2010-05-25
語言:英文   規格:精裝 / 626頁 / 3.8 x 16.5 x 23.5 cm / 普通級
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圖書名稱:The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
  • 圖書簡介

    He Was a Brilliant Teller Of Tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham's own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham's personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor's Edge and of Human Bondage.

    Hastings vividly presents Maugham's lonely childhood spent with unloving relatives after the death of his parents, a trauma that resulted in shyness, a stammer, and for the rest of his life an acute emotional vulnerability that he worked hard to conceal. Here, too, are his adult triumphs on the stage and page, works that allowed his a glittering social life in which he befriended and sometimes fell out with such luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, D.H. Lawrence, and Winston Churchill.

    The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham portrays in full for the first time Maugham's disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, a Manipulative society woman who trapped Maugham with pregnancy and an attempted suicide (and who later became known as the decorator Syrie Maugham). Hastings also explores Maugham's many affairs with men, including his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer and a cad. Maugham's courageous work in secret intelligence during two world wars is described in fascinating detail---experiences that provided the inspiration for the groundbreaking Ashenden

    Stories. From the West End to Broadway, from China to the South Pacific, Maugham's restless and remarkably productive life is thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers the real stories behind such classics as "Rain," The Painted Veil, Cakes Ale, and other well-known tales.

    An epic biography of a hugely talented and hugely conflicted man, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham is the definitive account of Maugham's extraordinary life.

  • 作者簡介

    Selina Hastings worked at the Daily Telegraph before becoming the literary editor for Harpers & Queen. She is the author of Nancy Mitford: A Biography, Rosamond Lehmann, and Evelyn Waugh: A Biography, which won the Marsh Biography Award. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she has been a judge of the Booker, Whitbread, British Academy, Ondaatje, and Duff Cooper prizes, and of the UK Biographers' Award.

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