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The W. Somerset Maugham Appreciation Society

The W. Somerset Maugham Appreciation Society

and my favourite short story

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A little post, dashed off because I was thinking yesterday evening about Somerset Maugham… He features in the most recent (typically brilliant) post by

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, which I restacked, asking the question: is he due a revival? Turns out that he is, unsurprisingly, appreciated within my lovely discerning corner of Substack. His writing is elegant, not overwhelmingly…

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