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Jan 28, 2021 · Maugham’s short story “The Verger” is a tale about a simple man Albert Edward Foreman. He has been a verger in St. Peter’s Neville Square Church, doing his duties with great enjoyment and dedication. His routine work is disturbed with the arrival of new vicar in the church.
Jun 15, 2020 · This new public demanded simple, lucid, fast-moving prose, and Maugham’s realistic, well-defined narratives, often set amid the exotic flora of Oceania or Indochina, were among the most popular of the day.
The story is a narrative told in the third person by a limited omniscient observer. He/she can tell us the thoughts and feelings of the verger (Albert Foreman), but none of the other characters. At first, the language (tone) of the story is formal and objective.
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography; though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."
May 24, 2019 · W. Somerset Maugham’s (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) twenty novels are exceptionally uneven; the first eight, though interesting, suggest the efforts of a young novelist to discover where his talent lies.
Nov 17, 2023 · The Verger” by W. Somerset Maugham tells the story of Albert Edward Foreman, a dedicated verger at St. Peter’s Church in Neville Square. After serving faithfully for 16 years, an unexpected ...
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Somerset Maugham's short story "The Verger" begins in a fashionable London church called St. Peter's, just after a christening has taken place. The new vicar, recently arrived...
