And: okay, let me just say it and get it out of the way. Nobody can do character, the subtler emotions, petty motivations and gray areas of the mind like Maugham can. And the endings always twist the heart. In such elegant prose too. All of that is here too.
But- Not Vintage Maugham. For that read his short stories or his plays. His other novels never quite captured the magic Moon and Sixpence created.
Read- fully aware that you are reading a below-par Maugham.
©Maya
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