Plays: Volume 2: For Services Rendered, The Letter, Home and Beauty, and, Lady Frederick

William Somerset Maugham

ISBN 10: 0413713105 / ISBN 13: 9780413713100

Published by Methuen Drama, 1997

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plays: Volume 2: For Services Rendered, The Letter, Home and Beauty, and, Lady Frederick
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413713105
• ISBN 13: 9780413713100
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 430 grams

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Synopsis

In this, the second volume comprised of Maugham's best works, the four plays in this selection provide significant evidence of the playwright's powers as a dramatist.

For Services Rendered sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War.

The Letter, a tense drama of sexual passion set in the Malay States, shows Maugham as the colonial storyteller.

In contrast, Home and Beauty treats the marital complications of a returning war hero with Mozartian joie de vivre.

W. Somerset Maugham established his reputation as a master of the social comedy in the tradition of Oscar Wilde with Lady Frederick in 1907.