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The Facts of Life is less changed than the other stories, though Nicky and his woman friend do not sleep together. Short stories by somerset maugham pdf William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and educated at the Kings.
In the film Quartet, 1948, for instance, the stories used have changed endings: The Alien Corn (directed by Harold French) has an added ending where George Bland's suicide is considered by a coroner's jury to be an accident, since no man would kill himself because he couldn't be a pianist The Kite (directed by Arthur Crabtree) has an ending added with the unhappy couple reconciling by flying kites together and The Colonel's Lady has an added ending where Evie says that man she was writing about was her husband, before he changed into a Colonel Blimp. I would say, however, that many of the movies made from his films are middlebrow because they add unnecessary clarity to what often remains unresolved. Somerset Maugham was once considered middlebrow but I think of his writing as highbrow, in the sense that it is challenging, intelligent and demanding. There doesn't seem to be much middlebrow culture around now, though others disagree (are Downton Abbey and Breaking Bad middlebrow? The latter, at least, is not comforting the way middlebrow culture is alleged to be). George Peregrine in Maugham's story The Colonel's Lady William Somerset Maugham was born at the British Embassy in Paris, France, where his father was an English lawyer handling the legal affairs of the British embassy. "I don't deny that I've had a bit of fun now and then. Herbert Sunbury to his wife Betty in Maugham's story The Kite. "I like it and if you don't like it you can lump it." Henry Garnet to his son Nicky in Maugham's story The Facts of Life. " There are three things I especially want to warn you against: don't gamble, don't lend anyone money, and don't have anything to do with women." George Bland in Maugham's story The Alien Corn