Archives by Tag 'W. Somerset Maugham'
Review: ‘Liza of Lambeth’ by W. Somerset Maugham
By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
If you were, hypothetically, to have your train delayed by over four hours one evening, taking your total journey home time from a little over two hours (which now seems almost reasonable by comparison) to six and a half hours, you’d definitely need a book or two with you to keep you sane. Ideally, you [...]
‘Up at the Villa’ by W. Somerset Maugham
By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Sometimes my reasons for choosing books are incredibly shallow; I bought the Vintage Somerset Maugham collection because of the rather attractive covers (not to mention they were incredibly good value from The Book People, of course), and I chose to read first because, at a mere 120 pages, it is by far the shortest one of the [...]