The Casuarina Tree
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Author | : WILLIAM SOMERSET. MAUGHAM |
Publisher | : E-Artnow |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9788027303113 |
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The Casuarina Tree is a collection of short stories set in the Federated Malay States during the 1920s by W. Somerset Maugham. The stories are loosely based on Maugham's experiences traveling in the region for about a year. The strong thread running through the stories is alienation and contrast - between people and cultures. For most of the characters, after a crisis in their circumstances, life seems to take up where it left off and closes over the revelations that brought on the drama. Maugham was considered persona non grata among the expatriate British community in the Federated Malay States following the publication of The Casuarina Tree as he was felt to have betrayed confidences and to have painted the community in an unflattering light through his focus on scandal. The major themes are class division, racial difference, adultery, personal competitiveness, and human nature in reaction to fate. Contents: - Before the Party - P. & O. - The Outstation - The Force of Circumstance - The Yellow Streak - The Letter
Author | : W. Somerset Maugham |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504068734 |
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A collection of six stories—including the acclaimed “The Outstation”—by the renowned twentieth-century author of the classic Of Human Bondage. Set in the Federated Malay States during the 1920s, these stories portray the lives of the English living abroad and the clashes that occur with the native Malaysians—and among themselves. In “Before the Party,” a widow who lies about the cause of her husband’s death in Borneo is confronted by her family and blithely reveals the truth of his untimely death. “P. & O.” follows a woman sailing home to England to seek a divorce; struggling with fears of aging and loneliness, she finds a way to be at peace with herself after a fellow passenger succumbs to a mysterious illness. Though in Borneo for decades, a British Resident Officer holds tightly to English customs and traditions, but his snobbery and classism come under attack when he is saddled with a boorish new assistant in “The Outstation.” In “The Force of Circumstance,” the new marriage of a British official and his wife reaches a breaking point when she learns of his not-so-secret past in Sembulu. “The Yellow Streak” follows two British men who are swept away by a tidal bore on a river in Borneo; though they both survive, one is nearly driven to madness by his suspicions that his companion knows he left him to drown. “The Letter” opens in Singapore with a British woman accused of murder in an act of self-defense; when evidence comes to light that proves she is lying, her lawyer and her husband must face their convictions—and the woman they thought they knew . . .
Author | : William Somerset Maugham |
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Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : William Somerset Maugham |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : William Somerset Maugham |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : William Somerset Maugham |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Ronald Newbold Bracewell |
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Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Trees |
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Author | : William Somerset Maugham (Schriftsteller, England, Frankreich) |
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Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Sophia Huang (Children's book author) |
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Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Families |
ISBN | : 9789814863810 |
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