Before the Banquet (selected Collection of Somerset Maugham's Novels)
by H
About This Novel
Maugham was not good at words and liked to observe people quietly. He can look into a person's eyes and heart and see through your uneasiness, your hypocrisy, your pettiness, and your greed. What's amazing is that when you read these stories that seem to be written about other people, you are often shocked in your heart... "Red Hair", will the moon on the island thirty years later still be as bright as it was thirty years ago? "Before the Dinner", the daughter returns from Borneo, and behind it lies the secret of her husband's depravity, alcoholism, and suicide... "Lunch", a poor writer has lunch with admiring fans, staging a small inner theater of cash-strapped... "The Fall of Edward Barnard", I love life now, full and meaningful, is this a kind of depravity? ... The water in the entire heaven is almost drained. Will faith be stronger or dry up?
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