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الزلة الكبرى وقصص أخرى
شخصيات روايته في الظاهر من احسن الناس اخلاقا و اخلصهم نيةفاذا بهم السفهاء الساقطون و تلك هي الزلة الكبرى
303 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2005
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W. Somerset Maugham
2,123 books6,129 followersWilliam Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.
During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
At the time of Maugham's birth, French law was such that all foreign boys born in France became liable for conscription. Thus, Maugham was born within the Embassy, legally recognized as UK territory.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.
During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
At the time of Maugham's birth, French law was such that all foreign boys born in France became liable for conscription. Thus, Maugham was born within the Embassy, legally recognized as UK territory.
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March 31, 2019
من احلى ما قرأت من فترة لم اقرأ كتابا كلما أغلقه تبقى الأحداث تدور بخلدي
الكتاب يتكون من روايتين و بضع قصص قصيرة
رغم حلاوة افكارها لكن طبعي لا يميل للقصص القصيرة لانها لا تسمح لك بالتعمق في طرح القضية
الكتاب يتكون من روايتين و بضع قصص قصيرة
رغم حلاوة افكارها لكن طبعي لا يميل للقصص القصيرة لانها لا تسمح لك بالتعمق في طرح القضية
December 15, 2024
" الكلب هو الدي مات.... الكلب! "
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"كل شي غامض ... الحياة غامضة.. "
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