{"product_id":"mrs-craddock-paperback-4","title":"Mrs Craddock - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. Somerset Maugham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Calder\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There is something bracing about the sincerity of  Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well as the cancerous sore beneath.\" --Leslie A. Marchand, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdward Craddock is a thoroughly good man. He may lack his wife Bertha's education, but he is unfailingly good-humored, handsome, placid, and popular. It is hardly surprising that Bertha adores him. But expending all one's passion, all one's spirit, on a man who is so undemonstrative, so unimaginative, can be very trying, as Bertha soon discovers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this penetrating study of an unequal marriage, W. Somerset Maugham explores the nature of love and happiness and finds that the two rarely coincide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young woman, carried away by passion, sees a chance to escape a dull life and to experience true love. But she discovers that little in her marriage to the dutiful and sensible Edward meets her expectations. And as passion dies, she finds herself trapped in a loveless, oppressive marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. Somerset Maugham\u003c\/b\u003e (1874-1965) lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, \u003cb\u003eLiza of Lambeth\u003c\/b\u003e (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, \u003cb\u003eOf Human Bondage\u003c\/b\u003e (1915), and with \u003cb\u003eThe Moon and Sixpence\u003c\/b\u003e (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, \u003cb\u003eA Man of Honour\u003c\/b\u003e (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with \u003cb\u003eSheppey\u003c\/b\u003e (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with \u003cb\u003eThe Trembling of a Leaf\u003c\/b\u003e, sub-titled \u003cb\u003eLittle Stories of the South Sea Islands\u003c\/b\u003e, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eW. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as \u003cb\u003eOn a Chinese Screen\u003c\/b\u003e (1922) and \u003cb\u003eDon Fernando\u003c\/b\u003e (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing \u003cb\u003eThe Summing Up\u003c\/b\u003e (1938) and \u003cb\u003eA Writer's Notebook\u003c\/b\u003e (1949). He became a Companion of Honour in 1954.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Calder\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 7.91 x 7.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47260942172409,"sku":"9780143105121","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/tlU1_ODQyX9780143105121_51607e50-6259-41e4-a147-ac7a1cd2452d.webp?v=1768790211","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/mrs-craddock-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}