Mrs Craddock by W. Somerset Maugham - ISBN: 9780099288800
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Passionate wife, stifled by marriage, seeks unconventional fulfillment.

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    304 pages

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    5 January 2001

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Summary

Here is Maugham’s famous heroine - the intelligent, spirited and passionate Mrs Craddock.

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.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099288800
ISBN-10:009928880X
Author:W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:5 January 2001
Weight:232g
Dimensions:198mm x 131mm x 20mm
Series:Vintage classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

He is a decade ahead of D.H. Lawrence in his portrayal of a woman with a passionate sexual attraction

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 *

About The Author

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 Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer’s Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965.

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