Points Of View
A Writing, Fiction, Essays book. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties,...
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- ISBN: 9780099288909 / 99288907
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. W. Somerset Maugham, Points Of View: [Essays] //
Classified as a non-fiction on its back cover, this book first published in 1958 entitled Points of View by W. Somerset Maugham seemed unfamiliar to me. However, I found reading his five topics that follow interestingly narrated and described with his penetrating remarkable viewpoints: The Three Novels of a Poet, The Saint, Prose and... Essay collections are always tricky, since the topics often come across as dated and obscure.These, the first book I've read of Somerset Maugham, were a mixed bag. I enjoyed "Three Journalists" and "The Short Story," but the others didn't do much for me. Or: five essays on obscure topics.The first, Three Novels of a Poet, is an overview, with synopses, of some of the works of Goethe. I've never read any Goethe, which isn't to say I won't, just haven't yet, so this didn't interest me.The second, The Saint, is a biography, clearly cadged from other sources and reworked in Maugham's style,...
