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W. Somerset Maugham - Bishop's Apron

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1906
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«Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose.» Maugham could have added ambitious, hypocritical, and vain. In this engrossing social satire, Theodore Spratte, a cleric, motivated by an obsessive desire to be elevated to bishop, embellishes his family history and intrudes upon his son's and daughter's courtships. A reviewer in 1906 wrote, «The whole book is an admirable blend of cynical gaiety and broadly farcical comedy; it is the smartest and most genuinely humorous novel that the season has yet given us.» — Lee Smalley

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