LOUISE, a short story by Somerset Maugham

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Part of Somerset Maugham's classic short stories.

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  • @luzvaldes1030
    @luzvaldes10303 күн бұрын

    Charming story… it appears that quite a few of us have a Louise in our lives.

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon8313 күн бұрын

    Oh, dear Somerset-I DO so love your wicked, wicked wit ❤

  • @elisekuby2009
    @elisekuby200921 күн бұрын

    He had her number, right from the beginning! And nothing of value was lost when this monster departed this earthly plane.

  • @oceanaoushn8803
    @oceanaoushn8803Ай бұрын

    And the world became a better place.

  • @Riklott1111

    @Riklott1111

    Ай бұрын

    And two more husbands are allowed to live

  • @user-lt6rh1vz3f
    @user-lt6rh1vz3fАй бұрын

    Thaks for another new-to-me story.

  • @Riklott1111
    @Riklott1111Ай бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @twhitney4093
    @twhitney409310 күн бұрын

    Louise sounds just like my BPD neighbour! She always needs to be taken care of and always has some mysterious new, life-threatening illness when it's convenient 😂😂

  • @sunnylife7934

    @sunnylife7934

    Күн бұрын

    It’s funny how cash makes a significant contribution to mental illness. The poor can’t afford to tolerate people like her. When I tried to manipulate my mother or grandmother with a claim of being ill, they’d say ‘do some housework you’ll feel better.’

  • @JoanKentBible
    @JoanKentBible4 күн бұрын

    Louise never new inner peace and her victims never had the inner strength to handle her. "Human" nature was not a mystery to Somerset Maugham. He understood human obsession. Another gripping story, beautiful image and music that Louise would have lost herself in, for a while, whilst dancing. Thank you, neuralsurfer.

  • @alidabaxter5849
    @alidabaxter584914 күн бұрын

    I love this story, because I knew a woman exactly like her - my ex mother in law. She never ceased taking, under any circumstances, and considered she'd married beneath her. Whatever she had, she was dying of it, and if anyone suggested a cure she'd say a cure might kill her and then they'd never forgive themselves. I'd have forgiven myself easily, because nothing wrong with anyone else affected or worried her in any way and in her opinion going to bed if you had a high fever only made you weak. Her husband constantly deferred to her in every way and accompanied her to doctors but if they said something she didn't like she ignored them. She didn't have a heart condition but was absolutely sure she had cancer of some kind or another. I'm sure she lived to a great old age and probably continued to dominate her son, my ex husband, from beyond the grave.

  • @skytten64
    @skytten64Ай бұрын

    I Love to find a New channel ❤..Thanks a Lot.. from Sweden ❤☀️

  • @joanndavis1450
    @joanndavis145027 күн бұрын

    Wonderful jazz to begin and end wonderful stories. Thank you so much. Goodbye Louise.

  • @lisaharvey9940
    @lisaharvey994019 күн бұрын

    Hilarious! Thank you!

  • @brendabiffibaldovino8306
    @brendabiffibaldovino83067 сағат бұрын

    Thanks so much for sharing ❤❤❤

  • @engste678
    @engste678Ай бұрын

    Sounds like my ex, in a lot of ways ! 😂 I enjoy the stories, thanks.

  • @oceanaoushn8803

    @oceanaoushn8803

    Ай бұрын

    So good to hear that it is your EX, not around you any longer

  • @ropeburnsrussell

    @ropeburnsrussell

    Ай бұрын

    What a horrible woman.

  • @adrianobastardi
    @adrianobastardi23 күн бұрын

    A mistress of cold praise.

  • @TomHyland-mk4ki
    @TomHyland-mk4ki16 күн бұрын

    Gosh!

  • @Victoria-cy2bh
    @Victoria-cy2bh8 күн бұрын

    She sounds like my mother in law 🤣

  • @rodolfocadena9918
    @rodolfocadena991821 күн бұрын

    SALUDOS POR PRIMERA VEZ EN SESENTA AÑOS EXISTE CLARIDAD EN LOS PROGRAMAS DE LOS CONTENDIENTES EN LAS ELECCIONES DEL PROXIMO 2 DE JUNIO OJALA EXISTA CLARIDAD TAMIEN EN LOS VOTANTES, A PESAR DE LA PROPAGANDA SUCIA Y LAS MENTIRAS.

  • @Poptart_Finn

    @Poptart_Finn

    6 күн бұрын

    ?

  • @kathleenellenford4816
    @kathleenellenford481613 күн бұрын

    👏🏻👏🏻❤

  • @patryvjamarek1444
    @patryvjamarek144414 күн бұрын

    Thanks❤

  • @australiainfelix7307
    @australiainfelix730729 күн бұрын

    Female solipsism write large.

  • @JoanKentBible

    @JoanKentBible

    4 күн бұрын

    From Oxford languages "the quality of being very self-centred or selfish. "she herself elicits scant sympathy, such is her solipsism and lack of self-awareness" PHILOSOPHY the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. "solipsism is an idealist thesis because ‘Only my mind exists’ entails ‘Only minds exist’"

  • @alicecarroll2007
    @alicecarroll200712 күн бұрын

    Louise-the master manipulator.

  • @kellym.9453
    @kellym.945326 күн бұрын

    🌱❣️😁💬💬👍

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