Tag: somerset maugham

• Good old writers

  Who says old geezers can’t write? Some of them die with the sharpest minds. That’s certainly true of the literary critic Frank Kermode, who has just died at the age of 90. Reading about his death yesterday, I turned to his essays published in the London Review of Books. You can’t tell his age from…

  Read more: Good old writers

  Abhijit

  August 19, 2010

  Books

  autobiography, elmore leonard, frank kermode, graham greene, harold evans, john le carre, john updike, naipaul, novel, old, paper chase, pd james, peter preston, ruth rendell, somerset maugham, thriller, whodunit, william rees-mogg, william safire, wodehouse, writer

• A Truth Universally Acknowledged: About Jane Austen

  Janeites will love A Truth Universally Acknowledged, a collection of essays by 33 famous writers and critics acknowledging the genius of Jane Austen. Her admirers will have the pleasure of discovering their feelings shared by writers like Virginia Woolf, EM Forster, Somerset Maugham, CS Lewis, JB Priestley, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, David Lodge and critics…

  Read more: A Truth Universally Acknowledged: About Jane Austen

  Abhijit

  December 26, 2009

  Books

  a truth universally acknowledged, amy bloom, darcy, elizabeth bennet, irony, jane austen, JB Priestley, love, martin amis, novel, pride and prejudice, romance, snobbery, somerset maugham, virginia woolf

• Bengalis in 1920s Singapore

  I am glad that Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke at the Global Indian Diaspora Conference this morning. His presence there while Singapore officially went into recession underlines the deepening ties between the two countries. India too is caught in the economic turmoil.  Indian banks from tomorrow will be allowed to keep just 7.5…

  Read more: Bengalis in 1920s Singapore

  Abhijit

  October 10, 2008

  Books

  bengali, indian, lee hisen loong, singapore, somerset maugham