| 单词 | Somerset Maugham |
| 例句 | It's a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn't want to call Somerset Maugham up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He read newer authors as well, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, all purchased from his favorite stall on College Street with pujo money. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In his small library were works of poetry and philosophy and novels by such writers as Somerset Maugham. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was accepted, and it went on to win the Somerset Maugham prize. A life in writing: Tim Parks 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z Somerset Maugham, sitting upright on a vast grey couch and looking sideways out of the frame, fares less well under Kar's uncharacteristically stern gaze. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z Somerset Maugham, in Points of View, writes that Henry James never knew how ordinary people behaved. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z But the presence of Petronius and Somerset Maugham might catch some readers by surprise. Flash mob 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z She served on several literary prize committees including the Somerset Maugham, Whitbread and Booker. Obituary: Elizabeth Jane Howard 2014-01-02T19:26:16Z An early American review of “Chocolat” compared its “intertwined themes of colonialism and forbidden love” to one of Somerset Maugham’s steamy Malaysian melodramas. ‘Chocolat’: What France Knew 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Joshua Spassky, her third, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2008. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z And now here we have it, elegantly related by Selina Hastings, the author of finely wrought, literate biographies of Somerset Maugham, Nancy Mitford and Waugh himself. A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z A production of Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival theatre in 1976 was so successful that it went to the West End, Canada and on tour in Britain. Googie Withers obituary 2011-07-16T09:19:52Z In 1959, for a TV movie of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence, he altered the dashing Laurence Olivier into a victim of leprosy. Remembering Dick Smith, the Godfather of Movie Makeup 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z And they stay in and read a lot: recent recommendations to each other include David Foster Wallace and Somerset Maugham. Keira Knightley: ‘I used to try to be sensible and good and professional’ 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z When she received the Somerset Maugham Award, which is to be used for foreign travel, she decided to visit Japan. The unconventional life of Angela Carter — prolific author, reluctant feminist 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z As the backdrops for dramas by writers like W. Somerset Maugham and S. N. Behrman, such rooms figured prominently on Broadway during the first half of the 20th century. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z Freya Stark described him as "a Hellenistic lesser sea-god of a rather low period", Somerset Maugham as "a middle-class gigolo for upper-class women", and Fermor admitted his own occasional "rhinoceros-hide obtuseness". Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z Predictably, the newspapers at the time called it the "sale of the century", and among those wearing dinner jackets and posh frocks in the audience were Kirk Douglas, Somerset Maugham and Margot Fonteyn. Manet self-portrait fetches record ?22m at Sotheby's auction 2010-06-23T09:35:00Z That is the premise of Somerset Maugham's whiplash 1920s comedy, revived by Philip Wilson with an eye and ear for its brittle, sometimes savage wit. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z The film, though unnamed in the novel, is the 1934 production of W. Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage” starring Bette Davis. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Long overshadowed by William Wyler’s 1940 remake starring Bette Davis, the first filming, from 1929, of W. Somerset Maugham’s stage play “The Letter” has re-emerged, thanks to a new DVD edition from Warner Archive. Video: A Tragic Actress?s Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming 2011-07-17T01:23:02Z Reading his books has led me to admire Somerset Maugham, whom I was too snobbish to look at when I was young. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z At first the novel struck me as a kind of sibling to W. Somerset Maugham’s “Razor’s Edge,” or “The Moon and Sixpence,” novels whose narrators are only ancillary characters in the tales they deliver. ‘In a World That Shouts, This Book Is a Song Played Softly,’ Ethan Hawke Writes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The countryside, the landscape of thick river and dense forest that is commemorated in the fiction of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, still feels close. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z Somerset Maugham's seldom-read The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong is a quick, interesting and, above all, sinuously written travelogue of the author's time in the region. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z There's a whole sub-category of writers who were shaped by medical studies, from Keats to Somerset Maugham. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z Her third novel, The Distance Between Us, won the Somerset Maugham award and most recently The Hand That First Held Mine was awarded the 2010 Costa novel prize. Live webchat: Maggie O'Farrell 2011-08-16T09:38:00Z A woman he was dating was acting in a stage version of W. Somerset Maugham’s “Home and Beauty,” and he began hanging out at the theater. Hugh O’Brian, square-jawed actor who played Wyatt Earp on TV, dies at 91 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z It doesn’t get more Somerset Maugham than this. Probably the best bar in the world: readers' travel tips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z This entirely bizarre but captivating noir melodrama, which takes place over one Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, is directed by Robert Siodmak and written by Herman Mankiewicz, adapted from the novel by Somerset Maugham. My favourite Christmas film: Christmas Holiday 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Plenty of authors suffer a precipitous decline after they die, of course: Somerset Maugham was once ubiquitous; now he isn't. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z It's set in the 1920s and reads like Somerset Maugham. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z No one, however, subjected him to ridicule and humiliation of the kind Somerset Maugham and Aneurin Bevan, the stammering heroes of my childhood, endured. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z And then we have this, from Somerset Maugham: "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life." Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z That quotation from W. Somerset Maugham is the motto of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band. Dance Review: Carolina Chocolate Drops and Twyla Tharp’s ‘Cornbread Duet’ 2014-04-13T21:17:32Z The narrator of the title story, a Montana transplant from Back East, contends that Somerset Maugham, Buster Keaton and the Replacements are “the things that matter.” The Moral of These Stories? ‘You Are Not as Special as You Think’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The Somerset Maugham award is more refreshing: not only is the list of winners disarmingly freer of the usual suspects, but the comparatively modest prize must be spent on foreign travel. I've got chronic prize fatigue 2010-10-09T10:00:00Z Banned in Spain during the Franco era, it won the prestigious Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962 and is regarded as a classic, remaining in print, with several revisions, to this day. Hugh Thomas, Prodigious Author of Spanish History, Dies at 85 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z “In the Castle of My Skin” was a critical success, winning the Somerset Maugham Award and earning Mr. Lamming a Guggenheim fellowship. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z I started reading “Of Human Bondage” by W. Somerset Maugham when I was 26 — about 10 years ago — while on vacation in the Dominican Republic with my then-fiance. From ‘Game of Thrones’ to a Subaru ad, here’s what makes Washington Post readers cry 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z One character says of another, “He’ll get old quite suddenly and look like Somerset Maugham.” Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Was it Somerset Maugham who once said there was no more reliable pleasure in life than reading the catalogues of secondhand booksellers? Review | Miss going to the bookstore? Here are some books about books to help get you through. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z One day, I happened to notice a collection of W. Somerset Maugham’s stories. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z He had some luck landing acting jobs in commercials and finally won a tiny part on the 1950-51 anthology series “Somerset Maugham TV Theater.” Richard Donner, Director of ‘Superman’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ Films, Dies at 91 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z I am on a somewhat leisurely around-the-world journey and would like some suggestions for books with travel and self-discovery as a theme, like “The Razor’s Edge,” by W. Somerset Maugham. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z On land, villas once owned by literary stars like Jules Verne and W. Somerset Maugham are now inhabited by wealthy Arabs and Russians. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z One of my first ideas was to read “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, alongside “Mr. Know-All” by W. Somerset Maugham. Works of Fiction That Are Best Read Together 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Rebecca West on Somerset Maugham: “He couldn’t write for toffee, bless his heart.” Critic?s Notebook: Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths 2010-10-22T23:00:00Z Her life changed when she went to live in Tokyo for two years on prize money from a Somerset Maugham Award. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Yet it was as a novelist that he first gained notice, with “This Sporting Life,” published in 1960, which won the Somerset Maugham Fiction Award. David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z “I’ve always been obsessed with anything French,” Ms. Bryant said, but she struggled with learning the language, instead spending wistful afternoons sitting in the Place des Vosges, reading W. Somerset Maugham and Tennessee Williams. As ‘Mad Men’ Ends, the Woman Behind the Costumes Is Just Getting Started 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Among those who saw the Manet sell for the then huge sum of £65,000 were Kirk Douglas, Somerset Maugham and Margot Fonteyn. Records set at art auctions 2010-06-23T23:01:00Z To locate the gay gene in , you have to go back to its source, the 1948 novella written by Robin Maugham, the nephew of W Somerset Maugham. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife is revived at Salisbury Playhouse by Philip Wilson, a director with a knack for mining beneath the surface. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-01-28T16:50:48Z The novel’s electric prose established Mr. Amis as an important young English writer and won the Somerset Maugham Award for writers under 30. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z I loved the stories in “Ashenden: Or the British Agent” by W. Somerset Maugham. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z At age 15, I thought W. Somerset Maugham was the most phenomenal writer who ever lived. Sloane Crosley: By the Book 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Eliot was famous, and he was a man, and she turned him, as she did Somerset Maugham and Bertrand Russell, into a leathery old lizard. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z Parker got what might have been a big break when she was cast as the Machiavellian Mildred in a 1946 remake of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage. Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z In 1984, he agreed to do “Ghostbusters” only if the studio paid for him to remake “The Razor’s Edge,” a drama set in World War I and based on W. Somerset Maugham’s book. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z World-premiere musical adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham short story about a woman of ill repute who upends the lives of a missionary and others in 1920s Samoa. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z I had written seven novels including Mr Wroe's Virgins and Island, and had won prizes ranging from the Somerset Maugham award to the Writers Guild best fiction book, but that was no help now. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z “To eat well in England, you should have breakfast three times a day,” W. Somerset Maugham once said. T Magazine: Welsh Rarebit Redux 2011-03-23T16:09:23Z New Yorkers that fall enjoyed a new play by W. Somerset Maugham and a new novel by P. G. Wodehouse. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Other famous literary names published in the London version of the Strand included HG Wells, Somerset Maugham, GK Chesterton and PG Wodehouse, who contributed 150 stories over a period of 30 years. Unseen Joseph Heller story out this week 2013-07-22T14:19:31Z I had read so little that I didn't know how to … I would look at that experience and try to Joseph Conrad-ise it; or Somerset Maugham it. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z It won the Somerset Maugham award when it was published in 2008. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z When Tynan read it, he remarked that he couldn't understand how Somerset Maugham, who'd died the previous year at the age of 91, could have become a millionaire and still stammered. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z A Somerset Maugham story is always a story, not a literary experiment or tendentious social document. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Monaco is known, of course, as one of Europe’s most gossipy playpens for the rich and a tax haven for the yachting class — a “sunny place for shady people,” as Somerset Maugham famously put it. Prince Albert II of Monaco Charges Forth as Eco-Warrior 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Our oldest extant awards – the James Tait Black; the Somerset Maugham – don't have the selling power of the Pulitzer or the Goncourt. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z She should be good value in Philip Wilson's revival of Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, a play that is the epitome of the old-fashioned drawing room comedy. This week's new theatre 2011-02-05T00:05:41Z It’s a maxim that has been kicked around for years, but may have been best said by the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. The Bills Won the Stefon Diggs Trade. Right? 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The hotel, one block east of Hoan Kiem Lake, has suites named after prominent past guests — Charlie Chaplin, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham. After Day of Compliments, Trump and Kim Jong-un Will Negotiate Face to Face 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Somerset Maugham wrote some of his 1935 travelogue, The Gentleman in the Parlour, there, and Charlie Chaplin honeymooned at the hotel with his third wife, Paulette Godard, the following year. Hanoi's Metropole opens its doors to the unquiet American 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z He has always said Florida suited him because “it was a sunny place for shady people,” borrowing a Somerset Maugham line. Opinion | Stone-Cold Loser 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z “Everyone talks about the Hemingway thing, but he loves Somerset Maugham,” Salter said. John McCain and the End of Romantic Conservatism 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z In 1976, his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later. Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z But I also remember our capacity to take decent middlebrow novels such as HG Wells’s Ann Veronica or Somerset Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth and turn them into dismal shows full of thumbs-in-waistcoat choreography. Andrew Lloyd Webber at 70: how a ruthless perfectionist became Mr Musical 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z “We spent our days as if we were Somerset Maugham characters, sunbathing or playing croquet on the manicured lawn,” said a friend of his. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z At Somerset Maugham’s house on the French Riviera, Maugham’s secretary pleaded: “Bruce, do let Willy play with your hair.” ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Among the books are collections of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene as well as detective fiction. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Among the books are collections of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene novels as well as detective fiction. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Then she won Britain’s Somerset Maugham prize, which stipulated that a writer use the money to travel. New biographies writers who lived outside the lines 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z In 1969, Carter received a Somerset Maugham Award, worth five hundred pounds, to be used for foreign travel. Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z He would go on to open Ingram’s world with “grown-up books” like W. Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage” and the works of Salinger. Bookseller retires from Prairie Lights 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Addicted by then, I continued through the centuries to Evelyn Waugh, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and on and on into France and America, Germany and Ireland. A new year that changed me: I gave up weed – and became a book addict instead | Kit de Waal 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Somerset Maugham said, “To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” 7 Ways to Improve Your Writing, According to Experts 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z In 1969 she received the Somerset Maugham award for her third novel, Several Perceptions. Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z He is the author of five critically acclaimed books, including What Price Liberty?, which won the Somerset Maugham Award. The Forgotten Material That Changed the World 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z W. Somerset Maugham once described the Côte d’Azur as “a sunny place for shady people,” and Falciani, who was now a fugitive, hunkered down in Castellar. The Great Swiss Bank Heist 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Instances in the lives of Max Beerbohm, the caricaturist and notable man of letters, and W. Somerset Maugham, the novelist, inspired Coward to write “A Song at Twilight” as a starring vehicle for himself. Review: ‘A Song at Twilight’ at Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward both wrote about it. The Beau Rivage Palace: Swiss Hotel Hosted Victor Hugo, Coco Chanel, and Negotiations with Iran 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z One quirky factoid is that the writer Somerset Maugham was born in an upstairs room. Scandalous tales from the British embassy in Paris 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z W. Somerset Maugham refused to work in a room with a view. How to create order like creative people 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Curran, who has an old-fashioned touch for the intimate adventure, is at his best finding the slower rhythms of exotic locales, like the colonial Far East of his W. Somerset Maugham adaptation, “The Painted Veil.” Review: ‘Tracks’ leaves a mark 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z But our favorite is the stunning Somerset Maugham Suite, named for the Of Human Bondage author. Why You Should Visit Thailand Right Now 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The first two - William Conrad, and The Malay Spell - were named in deliberate homage to his two literary inspirations: Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. The French spy who wrote Planet of the Apes 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z A few of the authors remain familiar, such as Wodehouse and Somerset Maugham. The Italian town with an English secret 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Despite being revered and celebrated around the world, the name Somerset Maugham is largely greeted with ambivalence in the town he once called home. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z Somerset Maugham wrote about that in a short story. Schumpeter Got Innovation Wrong, And Other Myth-Busting Ideas From A Nobel Prize Economist 2014-01-20T15:27:00Z Consider, for instance, W. Somerset Maugham’s famous short story from the 1920s about an Englishman, a detective named Ashenden, charged with the responsibility of catching a dark-skinned male named Chandra. India Ink: On Being Brown in America 2013-04-25T13:24:27Z The novelist Somerset Maugham described Monaco as a sunny place for shady people but on Friday, as the rain tumbled, it was a shady place for sunny people. Jenson Button hopes 'geniuses' can solve tyre problem at Monaco GP 2012-05-25T21:30:16Z It is suspenseful, droll and crisply ironic in the manner of W. Somerset Maugham’s short stories about well-bred people who commit unspeakable acts. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Trade-Offs From Page To Stage 2012-03-15T14:25:23Z Born William Somerset Maugham at the British Embassy in Paris in January 1874, Maugham's mother Edith died of tuberculosis when he was eight. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z There were books about, many books; sevenpenny editions of novels that hadn’t fallen quite stillborn from the press, and one or two by Wells and Lawrence and Somerset Maugham. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z He had struck me as slightly forlorn, verging on seedy, when I was his patient, like a character out of a W. Somerset Maugham novel. My Life in Therapy 2010-08-06T12:00:00Z It is easy to sneer at Monaco, so memorably summed up by Somerset Maugham as "a sunny place for shady people". Monaco grand prix: The race where heroes are made 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z The Marriage of Passion.—One of Mr 58 Somerset Maugham’s characters in The Merry-Go-Round says: ‘I’m convinced that marriage is the most terrible thing in the world, unless passion makes it absolutely inevitable.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it Yet in writing of Somerset Maugham one must gaze along all lines of vision. When Winter Comes to Main Street Caroline is learning—is beginning to understand the dark philosophy of Mr. Somerset Maugham. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 In this remarkable book Mr. W. Somerset Maugham surpasses by a long distance the average novels of recent appearance. One Hundred Best Books Mr. Somerset Maugham succeeded in shocking Broadway so that the sidewalks were filled with blushing ticket-speculators. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories A small, but quite noticeable, example of a scene thus rightly left to the imagination occurred in Mr. Somerset Maugham's first play, A Man of Honour. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Knowing Somerset Maugham as a dramatist, the author of that kind of play which never bored one, but rather sent one home suffused with pleasantness, I opened the book with happy anticipation. When Winter Comes to Main Street I am tempted to, because so many people think of W. Somerset Maugham as the author of The Moon and Sixpence. When Winter Comes to Main Street The first book launched by Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, could hardly have been, considering its slight dimensions, a clearer indication of the line he was to follow. When Winter Comes to Main Street Somerset Maugham’s next study in female portraiture showed how far he could travel towards perfection. When Winter Comes to Main Street |
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