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Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father''s money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent and sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life, and finds her love for her husband slipping away.

Originally rejected by publishers, Mrs Craddock was first published only on condition that certain ''shocking'' passages were removed. It was thirty years before the full text could be published.



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Mrs Craddock

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 2 November 2000
      ISBN-13 9780099288800
      978-0099288800
      ISBN-10 009928880X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father''s money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent and sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life, and finds her love for her husband slipping away.

      Originally rejected by publishers, Mrs Craddock was first published only on condition that certain ''shocking'' passages were removed. It was thirty years before the full text could be published.



      Trade Review
      He is a decade ahead of D.H. Lawrence in his portrayal of a woman with a passionate sexual attraction * Washington Post *
      Maugham's best work as a novelist...ahead of its time * New York Times *

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