The Vagrant Mood — W. Somerset Maugham (Heinemann, red dust jacket hardback)
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Description
'The Vagrant Mood' is a collection of six essays by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1952. Maugham ranges widely across literary and artistic subjects, discussing the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán, Edmund Burke, the detective story, Immanuel Kant’s ideas on aesthetics, and the eccentric Victorian writer Augustus Hare. The collection also includes Maugham’s personal recollections of writers he knew, including Henry James, H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett, combining literary criticism with character sketches and reminiscence. It offers an engaging example of Maugham’s later nonfiction and his sharp, conversational approach to literature, art and the people behind them.
Condition
Fair condition, slight wear to the cover.
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