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Annie
Oct 15, 2010 rated it liked it
Anna, you're going to hate me for only giving it 3 stars... but I don't know. After The Painted Veil and Up At the Villa, it just... didn't seem as enchanting. The protagonist (whose name escapes me) was too much of a Holden Caulfield "woe is I" character for me. Give me resilience rather than pity. ...more
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mstan
Jun 09, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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I've always liked W. Somerset Maugham, but this book blows the rest of his oeuvre out of the water. It's an ultra-Bildungsroman, a superman among the American/British-in-Europe books (think A Room with a View or Tender is the Night), an intriguing, unusual love story. ...more
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Jul 02, 2007 rated it it was amazing
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