Reading is a Portable Refuge: Somerset Maugham's Reading Essays
About This Novel
If there was a profession called a reader in the world, no one would be more suitable than Maugham. It seems natural that writers love reading, but like Somerset Maugham, he followed the chart, from the writer's works to the writer's life and character, and then turned around from their life and character to care about the writer's work, and wrote a wonderful collection of essays based on this, which is also a rare thing in the history of literature. This is a book of gossip by a master, and also a book of Maugham's insights into reading and philosophy. The spicy secrets and interesting humanity of the literary giant, Jane Austen's kind "meanness", Stendhal's inner inferiority, Flaubert's first love on the beach in childhood, Leo Tolstoy's confusion and confession in his life, Dostoyevsky's betrayal...
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Official(6)Scraped 11d ago
OMG no one saw this book!
People who write masterpieces seem to have personality flaws
The title of the book is very good
I was attracted by the title of the book. I just read a few chapters and I liked it very much.
The title of the book is so romantic, I really like it.
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Official(6)Scraped 11d ago
OMG no one saw this book!
People who write masterpieces seem to have personality flaws
The title of the book is very good
I was attracted by the title of the book. I just read a few chapters and I liked it very much.
The title of the book is so romantic, I really like it.
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