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The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism

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    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 7/5/2001 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780099286790, 978-0099286790
    ISBN10: 0099286793
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism

    Trade Review
    One of the most cosmopolitan English writers * Washington Post *
    One of my favourite writers -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents...precision, tact, irony and total absence of pomposity * Spectator *

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