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Miranda Carter: Somerset Maugham, 17 December 2009
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
by Selina Hastings.
John Murray, 614 pp., £25, September 2009,978 0 7195 6554 0 Show More
by Selina Hastings.
John Murray, 614 pp., £25, September 2009,
“... un-) disguised portraits of people he’d met and stories he’d been told. (Sadie Thompson, an American call-girl, appeared – name, fat legs and all – in the short story ‘Rain’.) It was a habit which left a ‘trail of angry people’. Maugham was born in 1874 in Paris, the youngest of four boys, to an English solicitor who looked ... ”