the vagrant mood

He talks about Burke and Kant and the Detective novel. In the opening pages of the essay is a very authentic description of the well heeled life of the English middle-classes during the late 1800s, and after an anecdote that captures the lifestyle of the 19th century English gentlefolk, Maugham informs us that "hundreds upon hundreds of houses belonging to persons who, without being rich, were well enough off to live in the great comfort which they looked upon as the way in which gentlefolk should live." The Vagrant Mood Vintage Classics, Paperback, 2001. Maugham's last book of essays "Points of View" published in 1959, which was also his farewell to his reading public after more than sixty years of writing, is also worth reading as a companion piece to The Vagrant Mood. By . Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. Tall octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.241. I never heard of Zurbaran before, but now I am really curious. The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. The Vagrant Mood -- Life in Spain, Mainly Thursday, 4 March 2010. Firstly it is a relatively less readable and rather difficult book of the Maugham oeuvre. The Maugham Seesaw; THE VAGRANT MOOD: Six Essays. 250 pp. As a Maugham fan I tend to like everything he has written, and it is perhaps hard for me to provide an unbiased review; nevertheless I will try to be objective. Probably readers will have their individual favorites. Everyday low … Refresh and try again. London: William Heinemann, 1952. Zurbaran. Highly recommended to all who appreciate this side to Maugham's writing. The one that I liked most is "Some Novelists I have Known", and the next best two essays are easily "Augustus" and "After Reading Burke". Six essays, covering a range of time and mood and subject matter. Despite her erudition and success as an author, after a twenty minute conversation, Maugham finally dismisses Mrs. Wharton for being rather uninteresting. Published in a Limited Edition of 500 copies, of which this is # 268. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and Edith Wharton. Augustus Hare (who? Maugham's marvelous voice is. Then, essays cover topics of interest - the one on Goethe's three novels alone is worth the the book and the essay on the short story presents insights on the subject that are to be found nowhere else. Maugham's marvelous voice is still present throughout, but too much of it is taken up with deathly dull topics. A rather unflattering background of Burke is also provided, and Maugham somehow manages to show us that Burke the orator and Burke the statesman were two very different persons: the just and high-minded speeches that he delivered were not at all compatible to the corruptions that he often condoned, and it was only because while Burke was writing he was able to imagine himself as the righteous "high-minded man whom his friends loved and honored for his nobility of spirit, his greatness and his magnanimity" that he was able to write so well. Several insights into H.G. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Six Essays. exactly. From "Some Novelists I Have Known," on Elizabeth von Arnim, then Elizabeth Russell: A collection of commentaries on an eclectic range of subjects, ranging from Emanuel Kant to the lesser known Spanish painter Zurbaran. Paints a very interesting, often entertaining, but by and large rather,. 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