29 December 2012

Christmas Holiday by Somerset Maugham

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Among all his works, Christmas Holiday published in 1939, counts as Maugham's most political novel. It still has all the central...
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14 December 2012

Real-life stories need fictional plausibility too

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Realism in movies or books is a confusing term. One wonders if it means to portray life as it is - in its bare, unpolished form?   Often ...
19 September 2012

The Big Book Shelf - Sunil Sethi

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Author : Sunil Sethi Pages : 240 Publishers : Penguin Price : 350 With the opening up of the publishing industry in the country and ...
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The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham

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 Author: Selina Hastings Pages: 550 Published in: 2010 Not a rollicking read, but Selina Hastings' biography on Maugham is balanced,...
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31 July 2012

Duo On Discovery Path

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The husband and wife writer duo, Devapriya Roy and Saurav Jha went backpacking through the length and breadth of India on a daily budget of...
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13 March 2012

Shobha De's Spouse and Surviving Men

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  Shobhaa De's latest 'Spouse - the truth about marriage' is a surprisingly tame book on the evergreen subject of Indian ...
19 February 2012

Collected Short Stories: Vol 4

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Pages : 576 Much of what Maugham wrote was always greatly influenced by the numerous travels he made. In the course of his momentous writing...
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17 February 2012

The Dutch Treasure Trove

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Renee Ridgway recently unveiled an archival find, a 17th century book on medicinal plants created by the then Dutch governor in Cochin. The...
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07 January 2012

Somerset Maugham's Liza Of Lambeth

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Liza Of Lambeth (1897) is perhaps Maugham's only novel which I don't have the heart to revisit. Not because it is poor, but because ...
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13 December 2011

Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed

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Haven't we all at some point typed   an intimate question on Google search for user responses.   This mini research offers ...
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