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Mrs Craddock
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Ideal for readers who appreciate classic general fiction exploring complex emotional and societal themes through strong, nuanced female protagonists.
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.
Here is Maugham's famous heroine - the intelligent, spirited and passionate Mrs Craddock
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Here is Maugham's famous heroine - the intelligent, spirited and passionate Mrs Craddock.
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.
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Washington Post praises Maugham for being a decade ahead of D.H. Lawrence in portraying a woman's passionate sexual attraction. The New York Times calls this his best work as a novelist, recognising it as ahead of its time.
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ISBN: 9780099288800
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 November 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 217g
Pages: 304
About the Author
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 of The Moon and Sixpence his 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 autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965
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