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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
March 18, 2014
Pages
46
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781497372900
ISBN-10
1497372909
Dimensions
0.11 by 5 by 8 in.
Original list price
$5.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: W. Somerset Maughamâs âBefore the Partyâ is a novelette first published in the December 1922 edition of âNashâs Magazine.â After the death of her husband, an alcoholic colonial administrator in Borneo, Millicent returns to England to live with her parents and sister. Did Millicentâs husband die of a fever, as Millicent claims, or was his throat cut? And if the latter, was it suicide or homicide? Sample passage: Mrs. Skinner had thought it very peculiar that her daughter should have no photographs of Harold in her room. Indeed she had spoken of it once, but Millicent had made no reply. Millicent had been strangely silent since she came back from Borneo, and had not encouraged the sympathy Mrs. Skinner would have been so willing to show her. She seemed unwilling to speak of her great loss. Sorrow took people in different ways. Her husband had said the best thing was to leave her alone. The thought of him turned her ideas to the party they were going to.
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