Magician

The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM together WITH A FRAGMENT OF recital 1908 A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY In 1897, after consumption five years at St Thomass Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to action medicine. While still a medical student I had make a unfermented called _Liza of Lambeth_ which caused a mild sensation, and on the strength of that I precipitately decided to abandon doctoring and earn my living as a writer; so, as soon as I was qualified, I set out for Spain and spent the best part of a year in Seville. I amused myself hugely and wrote a insalubrious novel. Then I returned to London and, with a title-holder of my avow age, took and furnished a small flat burn up Victoria Station. A maid of all work cooked for us and kept the flat sportsmanlike and tidy.

My friend was at the Bar, and so I had the day (and the flat) to myself and my work. During the beside six years I wrote some(prenominal) novels and a number of plays. solely one of these novels had any success, only when even that failed to make the posit that my first one had made. I could get no director to take my plays. At last, in desperation, I sent one, which I called _A Man of Honour_, to the Stage Society, which gave both performances, one on Sunday night, another(prenominal) on Monday afternoon, of plays which, unsuitable for the commercial-grade theatre, were considered of sufficient merit to satisfy an intellectual audience. As every...If you extremity to get a estimable essay, order it on our website: OrderE! ssay.net

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