Orientations William Somerset Maugham 9781272536251 Books
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Orientations William Somerset Maugham 9781272536251 Books
This is a small but really good collection of some of Maughan's short stories. Written in his special style, the stories are an interesting read, and represent great examples of his art.Product details
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Orientations William Somerset Maugham 9781272536251 Books Reviews
Another wonderful read by Maugham! I've finished all the books and just love these short stories. Sure to read them again.
"Orientations" may not be Maugham's first book of stories but it is very early and he had definitely not found his voice as a writer. There are five very bad stories and one excellent one. I hate to say this, as I am a serious fan of Maugham, based on his later novels, such as "Of Human Bondage and "Moon and Sixpence," his Ashenden stories and his essays in "The Vagrant Mood." I read Ted Morgan's biography and I just downloaded the rest of his novels and essays, which I'm eager to read.
But "Orientations" can only be recommended to completists and scholars. The five bad stories appear to have been written by an adolescent with no knowledge of the world that grownups really live in. The long smooth sentences and the latinate vocabulary show an expensive education but can't hide the juvenile conception and mediocre execution. These are the kind of stories that secondary students would publish in their school literary magazines, if their secondary school happened to be Eton. Three of the stories are set in Spain, but it is the Spain of magazine clichés and fantastic tales, of the kind that Poe, Hawthorne and even Edith Wharton could dash off in an afternoon. Another story, about two straight-laced English art lovers in France, takes a very long time to reach the obvious conclusion. There is a story about a clerk who gets religion, but it is as flat as the protagonist and his wife, who never acquire a 3rd dimension. In one of the other stories a monk loses his faith and there is no reason for the reader to care.
The last story though, "Daisy", is the real deal, or the real Maugham. Here his mature voice sounds loud and clear. (Spoiler follows) Set in an English village, it tells the story of a lower middle class girl whose father sees that she gets more education than her stupid mother feels is proper. Disaster strikes when Daisy runs off with a soldier. She sinks as low as possible and is disowned and ostracized. That would be the end of the tale in a normal Victorian or even Edwardian story, but the God the villagers worship decides not to play by the rules they expect him to and Daisy rebounds with miraculous good fortune, while her pious family begin a slow descent towards poverty. The characters of Daisy, her father and mother come to life on the page and they become people we know. The villagers are caricatures, but they provide a Greek chorus to remind you that this story is going the wrong way. Maugham drops the authorial commentary and digressions of the other stories and his ironic sympathy shines clearly through simple yet highly polished prose. The is the Maugham who wrote the later masterpieces. The other five stories are just wrong turns that he took on the way to discovering himself as a writer. You would be wasting your time to read them. You have been warned.
Short stories that were written by the genius Maugham. I feel guilty only giving him four stars, but this is in comparison to his masterpieces,of five stars!
This is a small but really good collection of some of Maughan's short stories. Written in his special style, the stories are an interesting read, and represent great examples of his art.
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