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Mrs. Craddock
W. Somerset Maugham
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Description for Mrs. Craddock
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099288800
SKU
V9780099288800
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About W. Somerset Maugham
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Mrs. Craddock
He is a decade ahead of D.H. Lawrence in his portrayal of a woman with a passionate sexual attraction
Washington Post
Maugham's best work as a novelist...ahead of its time
New York Times
Washington Post
Maugham's best work as a novelist...ahead of its time
New York Times