Instead of leaving an autobiography, the wonderful but very private playwright and novelist Somerset Maugham decided near the end of his life to "sum up" what he had learned from a life of reading and writing. The result can be read with profit by any writer on the order of once a year, and with pleasure by any lover of books and good writing. REUPLOAD NEEDED
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there." Reuploaded Thanks to Eugenius
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Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel. In the village there is an amateur photographer, William Dare, who is the illegitimate son of Captain De Stancy an impoverished scion of the family. Captain De Stancy represents a dream of medieval nobility to Paula. She is attracted to both men for their different virtues but William Dare decides to intervene to promote his father in her affections.
W. Somerset Maugham - Up at the Villa С.Моэм - На вилле Level: Pre-Intermediate Адаптированная книга для чтения The book is scaned and OCRed by bkate .
