Great Novelists and Their Novels: Essays on the Ten Greatest Novels of the World, and the Men and Women Who Wrote Them

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, (1948).

Price: $100.00

Hardcover. First edition. Some offsetting on the front fly, else near fine in a near very good dustwrapper with rubbing and small chips and tears. Inscribed by novelist Russell Janney, author "Miracle of the Bells* to Kathryn Cravens: "Dear Kathryn - Mr. Maugham didn't mention either you or I - but then - who is W. Somerset Maugham! We'll show 'em! Russell. Dec. 25th 1948." The recipient, Kathryn Cochran Cravens, 1898–1991, was a radio personality, actress and writer from Texas was the first female news commentator to be broadcast from coast to coast. *Pursuit of Gentlemen*, her only novel, was published in 1951, the manuscript for which won first prize from the National League of American Penwomen in 1948. Maugham on Dickens, Melville, Jane Austen, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Balzac and others. Uncommon. No equivalent English edition. *Stott* 57.

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Item #408603 Great Novelists and Their Novels: Essays on the Ten Greatest Novels of the World, and the Men and Women Who Wrote Them. W. Somerset MAUGHAM, Russell Janney.

W. Somerset Maugham
birth name: William Somerset Maugham
born: 1/25/1874
died: 12/16/1965
nationality: Great Britain

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English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work is characterized by a clear, unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human nature. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Maugham was especially prolific. Among our favorites are The Razor's Edge (1944), the American edition preceding the U.K. edition, issued in the U.S. in both a limited and trade edition (the limited had an unprinted glassine jacket - usually missing - and a slipcase, the trade a jacket), The Moon and Sixpence (1919 - the jacket is very scarce), and his first book, Liza of Lambeth (1897 - reportedly issued with a jacket, we've never seen one but suspect that indeed it was). We are intrigued by his many plays, although it can take considerable effort to figure out the various editions and states, even with the good Stott bibliography.

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