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Title: Liza of Lambeth (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 0-14-018593-3 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Maugham's debut novel
Comment: "Liza of Lambeth," Maugham's literary debut, is a less accomplished and complex novel than later masterpieces such as "The Razor's Edge" and "The Moon and Sixpence." Nevertheless, this novel is well worth the read. It chronicles Liza, a young woman who lives in a lower class London neighborhood. She struggles as she works in a factory and helps her alcoholic mother. Despite the rather grim setting, the characters are suprisingly full of life and humor. Liza is a bit of a social butterfly in the neighborhood and is well-liked until she garners the attention of a married man. This connection grows with tragic consequences. There is little sentimentality in the novel, and Maugham was apparently inspired by his work as a medical student in the London slums. Overall, a quick read and a good character study of a young, head-strong woman in late 19th century London.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful picture of lower-class subarban London
Comment: The story plot is nothing extraordinary, nor are the characaters unique, but what sets this short novel apart from the rest is the vivid picture that Maugham creates of the lower section of the London society. The story flows freely with a lucid style of writing, arresting the reader's attention from the first pages to the last, and touches a chord in the reader's heart somewhere deep, all along the way. Definitely a work of class, more so, it was Maugham's first novel. The old adage 'morning shows the day' aptly describes what the writer achieves in this work and the masterpieces that follow (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and the Sixpence, The Razor's Edge, etc.).
Rating: 4
Summary: Realism in the form of London's lower clases
Comment: This was Maugham's first published work which appeared 102 years ago. Maugham had just graduated from medical school almost the day the book was published and the modest success and good reviews convinced him to dedicate his life to a career of letters. The story takes place in the Lambeth section of London and is baised of his internship and residence at St. Thomas Hospital where he was required to call on the lower classes in the most dangerous section of town. Later in his life he joked about being a Midwife in his youth and delivering over a hundered babies for the poor. Maugham was influenced by "Sister Carrie" and "Mean Streets." and other books in the realistic tradition of the day. It is a rather short book and is written in the Cockney dialect of conversation like Dickens "Hard Times." It is well worth reading and a must for any Maugham fan.
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Title: Mrs. Craddock (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 0140185941 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1979 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 014018595X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1978 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham, Somerset Maugham ISBN: 0375724621 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classic) by W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 055321392X Publisher: Bantam Classics Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Moon and Sixpence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 0140185976 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1977 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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