Date: September 18th 2022: This amazing MEDICAL CLASSIC, a fictionalized account of a young English couple who are hopelessly incompatible and their ultimate triumph of love, will take you on a journey through life’s vicissitudes (ups and downs), and a myriad of human emotions, love, betrayal, hatred, revenge and redemption, none of which is any less than the other in intensity. I listened to the audiobook narrated by Joanna Ward, alias Kate Reading. Don’t read the paper book. Don’t listen to an audiobook narrated by another; Reading’s narration is so magnificently well done. Perfect - perfect speed, excellent clarity and exceptionally well interpreted intonations that reflect the respective characters’ personalities. Ability? What nonsense! He's a very stupid man. He gives you the impression that he dashes off his work and gets it through from sheer brilliancy. Nothing of the kind. He's as industrious as a Eurasian clerk."

Acum lacrimile îi şiroiau pe faţa ei bună, de casnică” (p.198). Să ne uităm și în original: „Now the tears were pouring down her kind, homely face”.

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About the author: W. Somerset Maugham: William Somerset Maugham was one of the twentieth century’s most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer. He was born in Paris but grew up in England and served as a secret agent for the British during World War I. He wrote many novels, including the classicsOf Human Bondage,The Razor’s Edge,Cakes and Ale,Christmas Holiday,The Moon and Sixpence,Theatre, andUp at the Villa.

The resulting scandal, which starts with the turning of the white china knob on the door, turns out to be an embarrassing affair for all parties involved, as these things tend to do. Walter gives Kitty a choice, but as it turns out, she has only one choice, which is to follow him to Mei-Tan-Fu. ”It means death. Absolutely certain death.” Walter is silent and pale for several days, and then gives Kitty an ultimatum. She will accompany him on his expedition to fight a cholera epidemic in Mei-tan-fu, a city in southern China, or he will bring her to court for her infidelity. Kitty is horrified, and certain that the cholera epidemic will mean her death. Walter gives her another out: if Charles agrees to marry her, he will allow her to divorce him and she can stay in Hong Kong. Kitty, delighted that she will finally get the chance to be with her beloved Charles, immediately confronts her lover with this proposal. Charles refuses to divorce his wife Dorothy, and Kitty, heartbroken, agrees to go with Walter to Mei-tan-fu. Maugham couldn't have found a more perfect setting for exploring the most disastrous of tragedies to a living marriage. Maugham sets up a plethora of symbols on the after-effects of infidelity to contrast with society's notions of a husband and wife. The Charlies of this world are grating on my nerves, but I have to admit Somerset Maugham nailed him. Vain, good-looking, brutally selfish and shallow, they come, they see, they conquer, they leave. I've always heard that they were a devoted couple," said Kitty, watching him through her eyelashes.

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The story should be a banality, really. Woman marries unsuited man to appease an unreasonably ambitiousand cold mother, then falls head over heals in love with the first good-for-nothing she comes across. The marriage is brutally broken and the story ends on vaguely defiant note.