by W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Calder
One of my favorite of Maugham's. A great lesson in what happens when you get caught up in fantasy and ignore your reality. Bertha Ley, a girl from a privileged family, marries farmer Edward Craddock for the "fantasy" of marriage she has. She assumes life will be quiet bliss with her baking and raisi...
I had never read Maugham. I had heard of him. Razor Edge and more recently The Painted Veil because of Edward Norton's film adapted from it. I came upon a rec for Mrs Craddock in Jessica Crispin's Blog of a Bookslut in January. This blog usually gives out there, sometimes underground recs. So I put ...
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