THE FALL OF EDWARD BARNARD, A SHORT STORY BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

2024-07-30 21:35

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THE FALL OF EDWARD BARNARD, A SHORT STORY BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! In this post, I'll share a review for a short story The Fall of Edward Barnard by William Somerset Maugham. In my last post, I reviewed one of his novels and did my best to avoid spoilers. Today I'll focus on one of his short stories about an engagement , but my review shan't be spoiler free. I'm actually currently reading The Complete Short Stories by Maugham ( you can read it for free on project Gutenberg ). Published in 1921, The Fall of Edward Barnard is a wonderfully ambiguous and modernist piece of writing that through irony, contrasts the the East and the West. Indeed, you might say that Maugham...

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