| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Troubling case of Somerset Maugham: Prologue: Abiding gods -- Somerset Maugham and the Driffield position -- Maugham's "partial self": the "unexpected view" on the way to Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilych" -- Wages of notoriety -an update -- pt. 2. Dismantling of favor: Prologue: In deepest regions -- H.G. Wells and the Palimpsest of time -- Anxiety of confluence -- Conrad Aiken and the "Tom" catastrophe -- Ground rule for "marginal" memoir: being heard but not seen -- Sentence(ing) of Edmund Wilson -- "Burrowing" of literary moles: Turgenev and Flaubert -- Triumph of Richard Ellmann -- Friendship, Francini, and the Triestine Joyce -- pt. 3. Serious business of comedy, innocence, and homage to the Hemingways: Prologue: Lucky Jim and Johnny come lately -- Laughing with the early Kingsley Amis -- Dorothy Parker: nothing sacred -- Custodianship of Mary Hemingway -- Edith Wharton's age of innocence -and mine -- pt. 4. Consul and other notations from underground: How I "discovered" Under the volcano -- Pietà, Pelado, and "the ratification of death": the ten-year evolvement of Malcolm Lowry's Volcano -- Ordeal of Margerie Lowry -- Writing as failed therapy: Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin -- Cheerless books that cheer -- Notes form a dark heller: Bob Slocum and the underground man -- Afterword: "Our last man of letters" and other legacies. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 -- Critique et interprétation. |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Costa, Richard Hauer. Appointment with Somerset Maugham. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1994 0890966184 (DLC) 94012375 (OCoLC)30437023 |
| ISBN |
0585173966 (electronic book) |
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9780585173962 (electronic book) |
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0890966184 (alkaline paper) |
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0890966192 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780890966181 (alkaline paper) |
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9780890966198 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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