Christmas holidays. Small corner. On Chinese screen: William Maugham

William Somerset Maugham, who never worked in the genres of mass literature, who did not write detectives, militants, sentimental-sexual ladies’ novels, nevertheless firmly occupies second place in the world among the most read English authors, yielding only to Charles Dickens. And all this without PR campaigns, laser shows and newspaper hype. Just Maugham – a brilliant stylist, a subtle psychologist, expert on European modernism, an accurate analyst of a British colonial society, a late Victorian. And a very courageous, self -irony person who said once: “To die is a terribly boring and painful activity. My advice is to you: Avoid something like that” …
In Maugham’s novels, life is presented by what is hidden under its “patterned cover”: overturning the established ideas, changes the usual course of things, issues unexpected accounts, sets new reference points.
The heroes, which came under the cover of this book, are represented in motion – on both sides of the equator, from one part of the world – to the other, from …

Author
Maugham William Somerset
Translator
Ostrovskaya G.A., Gurova Irina Gavrilovna, Oblonskaya Raisa Efimovna
Publisher
AST, 2011
Series
Classics and contemporaries