Rereading Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Moon and Sixpence’ and ‘The Razor’s Edge’
November 27th 2020 I read a lot of Somerset Maugham novels when I was in my twenties. One of them was ‘The Razor’s Edge’. I recall somebody – probably my devoutly Roman Catholic Aunt Chrissie – saying it was on the Vatican’s list of proscribed books which, naturally, was a huge incentive for me to get a copy. Another novel was 'The Moon and Sixpence', which Philip Thody, our French professor at Leeds U
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