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The Merry Go Round

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The Merry Go Round

By: W Somerset Maugham
Narrated by: Eve Karpf
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Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a woman's adulterous passion for a young rascal; and finally, an honourable man's decision to take virtue to extremes.

Public Domain (P)2012 Audible Ltd Classics

Critic reviews

"Maugham was one of the great masters of clever narrative and construction." (Allan Massie, Sunday Herald)
"A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents." ( Spectator)
"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham.... He was always so entirely there." (Gore Vidal)
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