W. Somerset Maugham

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twnetieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

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Anthony Curtis, John Whitehead

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Part 1 Books; Liza of Lambeth; Chapter 1 Edward Garnett, reader's report on 'A Lambeth Idyll' for T. Fisher Unwin; Chapter 2 Unsigned review, Academy; Chapter 3 Jane H. Findlater, 'The Slum Movement in Fiction', National Review; The Making of a Saint; Chapter 4 Unsigned review, Literature; Chapter 5 Unsigned review, Academy; Orientations; Chapter 6 Unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 7 Unsigned review, Academy; Mrs Craddock; Chapter 8 Unsigned review, 'The Strong Crude Novel', Academy and Literature; Chapter 9 A. St John Adcock, 'Mr W.S. Maugham's New Novel', Bookman (London); The Merry-Go-Round; Chapter 10 Unsigned review, Academy and Literature; Chapter 11 Unsigned review, Athenaeum; The Land of the Blessed Virgin; Chapter 12 Unsigned review, 'Spain and the Spanish', Athenaeum; Chapter 13, Virginia Woolf], unsigned review, 'Journeys in Spain', Times Literary Supplement; The Bishop's Apron; Chapter 14 'The Baron de B[ook]-W[orms]', Sir F.C. Burnand], review, Punch; The Magician; Chapter 15 'Oliver Haddo', Aleister Crowley], 'How to Write a Novel! After W.S. Maugham', Vanity Fair (London); Chapter 16 Unsigned review, 'A Feast of Horrors', New York Times; Part 2 Plays; A Man of Honour; Chapter 17 E.K. Chambers, 'Mr Maugham's Irony', Academy and Literature; Chapter 18 Max Beerbohm, 'An Uncommercial Play', Saturday Review (London); Lady Frederick; Chapter 19 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; Chapter 20 Reginald Turner, review, Academy; Jack Straw; Chapter 21 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; Chapter 22 Max Beerbohm, review, Saturday Review (London); Mrs Dot; Chapter 23 Unsigned review, Illustrated London News; Chapter 24 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; The Explorer; Chapter 25 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; Chapter 26 Max Beerbohm, 'How Dare He?' Saturday Review (London); Penelope; Chapter 27 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; Chapter 28 William Archer, 'Penelope and Popularity', Nation (London); Smith; Chapter 29 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; Chapter 30 Unsigned review, Athenaeum; The Tenth Man; Chapter 31 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; Grace (Landed Gentry); Chapter 32 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; Loaves and Fishes; Chapter 33 Unsigned review, 'Mr Maugham's New Play', Times; Chapter 34, A.A.] M[ilne], review, Punch; The Land of Promise; Chapter 35 Unsigned review, 'Maugham's Play Pleases at the Lyceum', New York Times; Chapter 36 J.T. Grein, Review, Sunday Times; Chapter 37 S.O., 'Pygmalion (at Home and Abroad)', English Review; Part 3 Books; Of Human Bondage; Chapter 38 Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 39 Gerald Gould, review, New Statesman; Chapter 40 Unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 41 Theodore Dreiser, 'As a Realist Sees It', New Republic; Chapter 42 Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, 'After Ten Years of Of Human Bondage', New York Times; The Moon and Sixpence; Chapter 43 K[atherine] M[ansfield], 'Inarticulations', Athenaeum; Chapter 44 Unsigned review, 'The Primitive Man', Saturday Review (London); Chapter 45 Maxwell Anderson, 'In Vishnu-Land What Avatar?' Dial; The Trembling of a Leaf; Chapter 46 Louise Maunsell Field, review, New York Times; Chapter 47 Unsigned review, Saturday Review (London); Chapter 48 Rebecca West, review, New Statesman; On a Chinese Screen; Chapter 49 Louise Maunsell Field, 'Maugham's Chinese Sketches', New York Times; Chapter 50 Gerald Gould, review, Saturday Review (London); The Painted Veil; Chapter 51 Unsigned review,'Mr Maugham Excels as a Craftsman', New York Times; Chapter 52 P.C. Kennedy, review, New Statesman; Chapter 53 Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement; The Casuarina Tree; Chapter 54 L.P. Hartley, review, Saturday Review (London); Chapter 55 Edwin Muir, review, Nation and Athenaeum; Chapter 56 Henry Albert Phillips, 'In the Shadow of the Casuarina Tree', New York Evening Post; Ashenden; Chapter 57 Edward Shanks, review, London Mercury; Chapter 58 D.H. Lawrence, 'Four Contemporary Books', Vogue; Chapter 59 Unsigned review, 'Mr Maugham's Latest', New York Times; The Gentleman in the Parlour; Chapter 60 Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 61 Bellamy Part ridge, 'Rare Traveler', New York Herald Tribune; Chapter 62 Arthur Colton, 'Travelling with Composure', Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Cakes and Ale; Chapter 63 Ivor Brown, 'Private Lives', Observer; Chapter 64 Evelyn Waugh, 'The Books You Read', Graphic; Chapter 65 Leslie A. Marchand, 'Maugham Paints a Sardonic Portrait', New York Times; Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular; Chapter 66 Lee Wilson Dodd,'Set of Six', Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Chapter 67 L. A. G. Strong, 'The Test That Failed', Spectator; The Narrow Corner; Chapter 68 Anne Armstrong, review, Saturday Review (London); Chapter 69 Florence Haxton Britten, 'A Cynical, Gifted Story Teller', New York Herald Tribune; Ah King; Chapter 70 William Plomer, review, Spectator; Chapter 71 Florence Haxton Britten, 'Maugham's Tragic Tales', New York Herald Tribune; Part 4 Plays; Caroline (the Unattainable); Chapter 72 J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times; Our Betters; Chapter 73 Unsigned review, New York Evening Post; Chapter 74 Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman; Caesar's Wife; Chapter 75 Unsigned review, Times; Chapter 76 William Archer, review, Weekly Review (New York); Home and Beauty (Too Many Husbands); Chapter 77, Aldous] H[uxley], 'A Good Farce', Athenaeum; Chapter 78 Alexander Woollcott, 'A Delightful Maugham Farce', New York Times; The Unknown; Chapter 79 Unsigned review, Times; Chapter 80 Frank Swinnerton, review, Nation (London); The Circle; Chapter 81 Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman; Chapter 82 W.J. Turner, review, London Mercury; East of Suez; Chapter 83 James Agate, 'West of Suez', Saturday Review (London); Chapter 84 Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman; The Constant Wife; Chapter 85 Robert Benchley, 'Something Good', Life; Chapter 86 Ivor Brown, 'Heartless House', Saturday Review (London); The Letter; Chapter 87 Unsigned review, Times; Chapter 88 Ivor Brown, 'Here Are Tigers', Saturday Review (London); The Sacred Flame; Chapter 89 J. Brooks Atkinson, 'Murder Will Out at II', New York Times; Chapter 90 J.T. Grein, 'Three Leading Ladies', Illustrated London News; The Breadwinner; Chapter 91 Desmond MacCarthy, 'Two Comedies', New Statesman; Chapter 92 J.B. Priestley, 'A Letter from England', Saturday Review of Literature (New York); For Services Rendered; Chapter 93 Peter Fleming, review, Spectator; Chapter 94 J.T. Grein, 'Two Gifted Pessimists', Illustrated London News; Sheppey; Chapter 95 Desmond MacCarthy, 'Mr Maugham's New Play', New Statesman; Chapter 96 J.T. Grein, 'Somerset Maugham's New Play', Illustrated London News; Part 5 Books; East and West; Altogether; Chapter 97 Louis Kronenberger, 'The Story-Telling Art of Mr Maugham', New York Times; Chapter 98 Raymond Mortimer, 'Re-reading Mr Maugham', New Statesman and Nation; Chapter 99 Graham Greene, 'Maugham's Short Stories', Spectator; Don Fernando; Chapter 100 Graham Greene, 'Spanish Gold', Spectator; Chapter 101 Raymond Mortimer,'Mr Maugham', New Statesman and Nation; Chapter 102 Terence Holliday, 'The Love Story of Mr Maugham and Spain', New York Herald Tribune; Chapter 103 Osbert Sitwell, 'The Spain of Somerset Maugham', London Mercury; Cosmopolitans; Chapter 104 Florence Haxton Britten, review, New York Herald Tribune; Chapter 105 Unsigned review, 'Mr Maugham's Mixture as Before', Times; Theatre; Chapter 106 Bernard DeVoto, 'Master of Two Dimensions', Saturday Review of Literature (New York); Chapter 107 Elizabeth Bowen, 'A Straight …