Sinnvoll24
Mrs Craddock
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Langbeschreibung
Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father's money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent and sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life, and finds her love for her husband slipping away.
Originally rejected by publishers,Mrs Craddockwas first published only on condition that certain 'shocking' passages were removed. It was thirty years before the full text could be published.
Hauptbeschreibung
Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father's money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent and sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life, and finds her love for her husband slipping away.Originally rejected by publishers, Mrs Craddock was first published only on condition that certain 'shocking' passages were removed. It was thirty years before the full text could be published.
William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel,Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature.Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 ofThe Moon and Sixpencehis reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographicalThe Summing UpandAWriter's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965
Autor*in:
W Somerset Maugham
Art:
Digitalprodukt/E-Book (Download)
Sprache :
Englisch
Zeit:
304 S., 0.43 MB
ISBN-13:
9781407051925
Verlag:
VINTAGE DIGITAL
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.08.2010
Erscheinungsjahr:
2010
Ausgabe:
1/2010