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2 жыл бұрын

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@zachariahforrest3339

2 жыл бұрын

@Kasen Ronin Instablaster =)

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2 жыл бұрын

@Zachariah Forrest I really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and Im trying it out atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.

@kasenronin7009

2 жыл бұрын

@Zachariah Forrest it did the trick and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy:D Thank you so much, you saved my account !

@zachariahforrest3339

2 жыл бұрын

@Kasen Ronin happy to help =)

I learned to read when I was four. By the time I was ten, twelve, I was reading everything by Maugham, and Daphne Demaurier, (I may have misspelled.) Their literature lifted me above my dismal circumstances. They blotted out my loneliness. Literature can be life changing.

@user-vf2tm8if2f

10 күн бұрын

I agree. As a very lonely child books were my dearest companions and have continued to bring comfort. 0:04

@johndean958

8 күн бұрын

Well said. Thankyou . John (Australia)

The noted and brillian French short-story writer Guy de Maupassant claimed that Sommerset Maugham was the best short story writer that existed. Quite a compliment.

When I was 45, I thought that I knew everything. In the next 10 years, I learned more than in the previous 45 years.

What a treasure to have on KZread. Thank you for posting. Back when things like this made you feel good

Maugham is a writer I can read and reread. A brilliant observer of humanity

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

I heartily concur ! I just finished a paperback collection of his short stories and enjoyed them so very much.

@JOHN-tk6vl

Жыл бұрын

His stories never grow old.

@krisquigley4497

Жыл бұрын

Of Human Bondage is one of those books I have thought about throughout the years. Wicked brilliant.

Maugham hints at the end that he hasn't long to live and he died later that year. So glad they got to him in time. Great interview.

@nourishthenewyou3251

Жыл бұрын

This interview was 1955 - I thought Maugham died in 1965. ? It was a wonderful interview to watch and listen to, I accidentally stumbled cross it.

@user-ld1dy3yc8j

22 күн бұрын

He died in 1965

The clarity of speech in the British patrician classes is something to be admired.

@rheinhartsilvento2576

3 күн бұрын

It is indeed.

@franklandsman3436

2 күн бұрын

The only comedians capable of imitating it convincingly have been Kenneth Williams, Peter Cook and more recently, Harry Enfield.

Dad and I would wait for the bookmobile to pull up in front of our house in Jefferson Parish back in the early fifties. He saw how interested I was in all those uniformly sized blue bound biographies and subsequently took great pleasure in giving me 30 Great Short Stories of W. S. Maugham and The Razor's Edge. I still sense his hand guiding me back to Maugham as I discover unread stories upon my shelves. And the recollected letters and paint scheme on the bookmobile become more distinct over time as well.

@fritula6200

Жыл бұрын

Just beautiful!

@richardcheatham9490

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and попутного вам ветра.

@jeanf8998

8 ай бұрын

How beautiful. Thx

One of my early loves. A great writer, so much happy to see him talk about himself. Love you Maugham. World should have honoured you much more. The Nobel prize committee was scared of your 'popularity' only to disqualify you. What a shame!

I have had a bookshop for 20 years, i have read 100s of books, the sanitorium in my opinion is his masterpiece. The best book i have ever read.

Known as the world's greatest story-teller

"I didn't mind him saying our writers are crap, but it's a bit much saying our cocktails are warm after he drunk all mine" - too funny.

Thankyou for this video. I enjoyed it absolutely. An amazing rare glimpse of an interesting man with so much to offer John (Australia).

The 2 greatest novels that impacted my life: Of Human Bondage and The Razor’s Edge. Unbelievable insight into the human condition and probably the most incredible insight into what love and life is really really all about.

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !

The 1946 Movie ‘The Razors Edge’ Adapted From Maugham’s Book.

@theseeingeye454

5 сағат бұрын

W/ Tyrone Power !

How I love Maugham. I have read, and taught him all my life. What a wonderful artist, so full of human nature's highs and lows. Thank you.

@tomthevlog4251

2 жыл бұрын

av

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion ! I've read a lot of his short stories and the novel "The Razor's Edge". Enjoyed them greatly !

He answers questions as a man who has already thought deeply about all the questions and has already considered each from half a dozen different angles, amazing.

@fritula6200

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that's probably why he is a writer.

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

Indubitably ! Wonderfully intelligent, thoughtful, articulate & perceptive gentleman.

Thank you. Maugham was, in my opinion, the greatest short story writer of all time.

@maureenleigh4724

Жыл бұрын

I SO AGREE!

Alan Pryce-Jones's accent: how very, very posh. That's how language becomes music.

Wonderful, just wonderful for this opportunity to see and hear Somerset Maugham in such a convivial conversation!

“I was withdrawn and unhappy, and rejected most overtures of sympathy over my stuttering and shyness."

Everyone should read Of Human Bondage....at least twice

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

What a delicious interview!

One of the greatest writers in my opinion. I can re read any of his books anytime.

thanks Mr.Maugham for all the great enyojable times you make me spent

Interesting. Mr Maugham once wrote about himself "I'm the first among the writers of the second line".He is so classy in his humbleness.

This is Magic. Thanks for sharing.

Grateful that this video gets published as I’m reading “Of Human Bondage.”

@mountainmanws

3 жыл бұрын

I just finished The Razor's Edge.

My favourite author ever.

His novels and short stories made me love reading.

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

You clearly have excellent taste in literature.

Thank you so much for posting this. Wm Somerset Maugham is one of my favorite authors.

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

I could not agree more.

I was only 2 years old at that time. I've studied English and American Literature and history and civilization at SORBONNE UNIVERSITY in Paris in the 80s. I regret that the Academy didn't include S.M works . I loved the documentary. THANKS FOR SHARING.

The accent distinction between the classes was very pronounced back then. There are certainly traces of this today, but it's become less obvious over the years. I believe the practice of non-reginal dialect among the media has been a large part of this change. Anyway, great chat. I've always liked Maugham. "The ability to quote is a serviceable subtition for wit" ~ W. Somerset Maugham.

@formercanadiancitizen4756

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, love that quote

@baliksupper6043

3 жыл бұрын

Great to see the back of that awful accent.

@stephendouglas4870

3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree, more especially the Times journalist - Maugham himself doesn't sound so self-consciously 'upper class'; but also, the society started to change dramatically right after the mid-sixties. It's not fashionable anymore to sound 'aristocratic', and studies of the Queen's accent show that she has come down to earth by each passing decade. With rock stars, footballers and film actors (e.g., Michael Caine) rising to the top, it's a trend to sound you're from a more 'ordinary' background - even if you have to fake it!

@sirhumphreyappleby8399

3 жыл бұрын

@Stephen Douglas whereas now rather than pronouncing the words they’re using, or using the language to its full potential, most people just slosh their way through conversations, unaware of most words beyond monosyllables, often speaking more like Jamaican gangsters than Englishmen.

@stephendouglas4870

3 жыл бұрын

@@sirhumphreyappleby8399 That's true as well. Note the increasing acceptance of the horrible 'glottal stop', i.e., the letter 't' is disappearing into a lazier abrupt gap - 'wa'er' (water) - even among some BBC speakers.

The stuttering and stammering that Maugham changed into clubfoot in Of human bondage. He is one of my most admired writers. In Chennai,India, it was a common see in 1960s people carrying a Maugham novel.

@tammat8625

4 ай бұрын

Is that when he blocks on words?

I first read Maugham when first working in the tropics. Now 45 years on I have returned to his short stories. His short stories frequently address the expatriate experience. I have always felt a stranger in a strange land despite living in Hawaii for 35 years.

@pattidort5953

2 жыл бұрын

Where are you originally from?

@pattidort5953

2 жыл бұрын

You have a German sounding name

So he was 91 here? And he died the year of filming? Wow. Sharp as a tack.

@louduva9849

3 жыл бұрын

@Keith Jones I'm sorry to hear that, lad. Enjoy the time you have.

@ashnomics

3 жыл бұрын

He is a legend. Lives forever in memory and through his books!

@nohaylamujer

Жыл бұрын

This interview is from 1958. Pryce-Jones was born in 1908 and he says he's 50 in the interview.

@rheinhartsilvento2576

3 күн бұрын

No, he's 83 here. It's 1958, and he died in 1965 at 91.

I childhood I adored all his books especialy of human bondage)) saw myself in Philip

Tremendous. I first book one of his books, almost by accident when I was 18. I'm now 55 and still enjoy re-reading them all. I've also just read an interview with photographer David Bailey, who once met Maugham, and said he was one of the nicest men he ever met. Which is something, as he (Bailey) seemed to dislike most people!

This was absolutely brilliant! Thank you for posting it. Willie still does not receive the credit he deserves. Then and now, I believe that is because his work has, without exception, a beginning, a middle and an end. His plays should be performed far, far more than they are.

@patriciawond4382

7 ай бұрын

Agree...

"I look upon myself as a slave of accidents"

Great interview, a young writer could gain much from watching this and of course reading his work

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

I agree 100 per cent.

A good interview. The questioner was smart short and sweet. And the author seems to be a quite lovely man.

@LakeConstan

2 жыл бұрын

No biographer or memoir-writer I've read has described him as a lovely man. His nephew, to whom he was quite close, describes a man brimming with unhappiness and self-hatred who was also avaricious and cynical

@paulsolon6229

2 жыл бұрын

@@LakeConstan thank you for info, I had no idea, and stand corrected

@jamilibrahim884

Жыл бұрын

Plain or ordinary folks never leave a mark

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

Well said and well put. The interviewer does a wonderfully effective job. I could listen to the two of them all day long. Thoughtful questions and fascinating replies !

@paulsolon6229

Жыл бұрын

@@LakeConstan shows you how much I know then

I’ve only got into older music and books a few years ago and the razors edge (book & movie) is how I discovered Maugham. I enjoy him

just fell in love with Maugham while reading "Mr Maugham Himself", a collection of semi-autobiographical (Doubleday, NY, 1954)

This is a gem, but if one reads the credits carefully, the copyright date is ‘MCMLX’ (1960) and indeed Maugham and Pryce-Jones look younger than they did if one views photographs of them taken in 1965.

@joestanford1080

2 жыл бұрын

Also, he refers to Hemingway in the present tense, suggesting that he was still alive as of this recording.

@JSDesignHK

2 жыл бұрын

@@joestanford1080 precisely.

@stormythelowcountrykitty8463

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. In 65 he was likely not in great shape.

@nohaylamujer

Жыл бұрын

This interview is from 1958. Pryce-Jones was born in 1908 and he says he's 50 in the interview.

excellent interview, good questions to!

Such a wonderful interview with one of my favourite authors. I started reading him when I was 16, many, many years ago. I enjoyed everything I read. I was very thrilled when 30 years ago I was staying at Raffles Hotel in Singapore. There was a small alcove off the main lobby with a desk and chair, it had a sign up that it was where Somerset Maugham wrote many of his books.the hotel had been recently completely renovated so whether they were original items I didn’t enquire. I liked to think they were. He was such a lovely man I am sure he would have been a lovely doctor. He had such a brilliant mind as well as a pleasant manner.

@michelez715

2 жыл бұрын

First time I've heard Maugham described as a "lovely man"! Never, in any biography I've read, has anyone who knew him described him thus. Quite the opposite, in fact!

@carolking6355

2 жыл бұрын

@@michelez715 Oh dear, I was thinking back over 60 years to when I enjoyed his books so much. I mainly read biographies now but not his. In fact since my husband died last year I can’t concentrate enough to read. Can you tell me in a few words why not? I suppose I assumed back then that such a great writer for me was lovely as he entertained me so much.

@carolking6355

2 жыл бұрын

@@michelez715 hello again. I decided to rewatch this after your critical comment. I still see him as a lovely person. Honest and to me very likeable. Biographers have their own opinions. Just as I have mine and you have yours. Orphaned young must have had a profound affect on his life as he still stutters badly. My opinion hasn’t changed. I think he had a brilliant mind and was a lovely person. I wonder how people will see you after you have gone. There is a Scottish saying which in my old age I can’t remember verbatim. Oh that we could see ourselves as others see us. Have a wee think.

@dreamdiction

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolking6355 O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us; To see oursels as ithers see us! (Oh, would some Power give us the gift; To see ourselves as others see us!) The great Scots poet Robbie Burns wrote these words in the final stanza of To A Louse : On Seeing One On A Lady's Bonnet, At Church.

@jamilibrahim884

Жыл бұрын

Tact and honesty don't go together.

I ADORE READING

Good for Willie, not letting his stammer deter him from agreeing to this interview. I understand that he was very self-conscious about it when he was young, e.g., when he did not himself telephone D. H. Lawrence in Mexico.

He was a qualified medical doctor.

This a great interview, because of Maugham's charm and humility. Calling himself a "great writer of the second rank" indeed! He is consistently interesting as an interviewee in this piece. You can find much of the same charm in his novels, although some deal with topics that are not delightful. To say that he does not speak of Ideas, as one commenter here did, overlooks his works. The Razor's Edge, for example, tackles theodicy and aspects of Hinduism in ways that make them accessible -- not turgid the way some attempt at philosophy in fiction end up being . As someone said (not me) "Maugham is the baugham!"

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for a refreshingly insightful comment !

I learned English reading and enjoying his plays.

So nice to watch my most favourite writer, thank you so much for uploading this rare video (Noel Bastola).

Supremely interesting - the best long Maugham interview on the net.

my favorite author life is fine while im reading maugham

How lovely, many thanks.

This is amazing. THANK YOU.

Loved this interview! Thanks so very much!

Currently reading Of Human Bondage, a fantastic man and author. Thank you for sharing this wonderful and inspiring interview.

"Of Human Bondage" is one of my favourite books...

A Lovely surprise..I've read most his books and seen many of his filmed versions..The moon and the sixpence,Quartet and Trio being among my favourites available on y-t.. what a great guy..thanks to all concerned in making this interview available..

The Man! The Legend!

Thank you for posting this interview. The Razor's Edge. Just brilliant and inspiring.

Thank you for sharing this video. Amazing writer.

Thank you so much!!!

Beautiful ! Thank you !

A fascinating writer. I like his Of Human Bondage and the Razor's Edge a lot.

Great sharing, hats off

Thanks for posting

Remarkable. Thank you.

Found this interview completely by accident, but I want to take this unexpected opportunity to give a shout-out to another British author, Philip Kerr. His Bernie Gunther thriller "The Other Side Of Silence: is set in this location, and a fictionalized figure of Maugham plays a central role in the book.

@geraldkstein3556

Жыл бұрын

I found this interview because I am reading The Other Side Of Silence. Its very sad that Kerr is no longer with us and for me this is the last of Bernie Gunther. Still i now have the works of W.S.M to look foward to!

@ankitm3439

6 ай бұрын

Love a bit of Kerr."Genre" fiction with more to say than most Booker winners.I should give SM a try also

I love this interview, helping me to know this great writer . I think he is like Strickland in the novel of "The Moon and Sixpence", who paniting for his strong desire, he wrote for his pleasure! Great man !

@deirdre108

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, very enjoyable novel, Strickland being the stand in for Gaughan.

The "Razor's Edge" is currently posted in a very good copy on KZread. Gene Tierney. Tyrone Power. Herbert Marshall. Clifton Webb.

@kilburnhall

3 жыл бұрын

I think the Bill Murray version sans 1984 touched me the most. That was the year of my divorce from a woman who was a lot like Isabel and I was longing for a Sophie to come into my life. Bill Murray was a mediocre actor, great comedian but Razor's Edge was his best film.

@jeanf8998

8 ай бұрын

I don’t think any cast of actors can beat that team! Remarkable movie

Great,Patrick Leigh Fermor had a Wonderfull story about his visit there.

Maugham was born and died in the same life span as Winston Churchill. 1874-1965.

OF HUMAN BONDAGE: the best novel I have ever read

Ah! "The Book Bag" is a pretty interesting read!

Brilliant man. Loved Razor’s Edge. A lovely interview. Wish I knew the year?

Ahh! St. John Cap Ferret -- truly my favorite spot on earth!

@paulsolon6229

2 жыл бұрын

Prettiest place I think I have ever seen

@candacejourdan6041

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulsolon6229 For sure! Me too! ❤ 🌞 ❤

@paulsolon6229

2 жыл бұрын

@@candacejourdan6041 in 1987 I saw cap ferrat-living in Nice, training, riding to Italy for lunch and back to nice. Never forgot it.

@candacejourdan6041

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulsolon6229 What an incredible/special experience in your life, Paul! Such a time truly could never be forgotten! You were so blessed - makes me happy for you 😊!

@paulsolon6229

2 жыл бұрын

@@candacejourdan6041 yes, that time was fine I see now. Did you live in south of France?

‘…to enjoy myself.’ 😂😂😂😂😂

Looks like people were smarter back then, and wiser...🙂

@baliksupper6043

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t bet on it.

@paulsolon6229

2 жыл бұрын

I Don’t think smarter Less angry, I agree

@shelbynamels973

2 жыл бұрын

No, they just sent out a former Times literature editor to do the interview, not Access Hollywood.

@louisgonzalez8846

Жыл бұрын

Smarter, wiser, and had better taste.!!!!

What an interesting 5***** interview: I've always more than merely enjoyed reading his short stories. As far as giving me pleasure in his tales I group him with H G Wells, A J Cronin, Borges and Conan Doyle.

This interview is from 1960, not 1965. Maugham died in 1965 and was already demented by then. The credits indicate MCMLX.

@dukadarodear2176

2 жыл бұрын

That's a terrible word there "demented" especially in this case but you're no doubt telling it as it was. My friends and I will slip into demention but nobody will even notice.

@nohaylamujer

Жыл бұрын

This interview is from 1958. Pryce-Jones was born in 1908 and he says he's 50 in the interview.

@PacificCorpUK

Жыл бұрын

@@dukadarodear2176 demented means "suffering from dementia". It is a medical term which WSM would have used himself as a doctor.

Hey ty for sharing... Bosto

-Phone rings- “Peter, it’s mom “ “Please be Somerset Maugham, please be Somerset Maugham “

Que delícia de conversa ! Estou lendo todos os Seus livros e amando .Eu ainda não superei servidão humana(Of Human Bondage)

Good 👍❤️

28:24 The small print at the bottom has the date in roman numerals. *MCMLX=1960* is the date of production.

GREAT

This channel is full of jams.

@lilisobeski2033

3 жыл бұрын

Gems, sir. With due respect.

@keithm257

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilisobeski2033 yet when i saw this vid i said to myself 'that's my jam'

@louisgonzalez8846

Жыл бұрын

Full of jams, and marmalade.!!!

Brilliant novelist.

First, the accent of the interviewer Alan Pryce - Jones is so of the period, stamping his class and pushy intellectualism.... I realise now where Peter Sellers got one of his "critics forum" radio characters from... Hilarious. Maughans interview here is entirely top level... We really know nothing about the man.. Only the books and authors he's read. It's an entertaining piece but in no way informs us about Maugham. As Maugham says himself his life is littered with mistakes... And some expansion of those would have been most interesting.

He died at the end of 1965 and by all accounts was severely demented for the last year or so--this interview is clearly from several years earlier, likely the mid 50s.

@nohaylamujer

Жыл бұрын

This interview is from 1958. Pryce-Jones was born in 1908 and he says he's 50 in the interview.

One of my favourite authors . He died a few months after this interview , in December 1965 .

@nohaylamujer

Жыл бұрын

This interview is from 1958. Pryce-Jones was born in 1908 and he says he's 50 in the interview.

Class

The blurb says he acknowledges Kipling’s notions of imperialism are outmoded. I wish he had said that exactly. But what he says is that Kipling’s stories are unfortunately unread because his imperialism is out of fashion. I don’t think this is exactly the same.

@avoidbeing

3 жыл бұрын

really stretching the bounds of phrasing to find his sympathies for Kiplings imperialism?

@shelbynamels973

2 жыл бұрын

A horse apiece, as my good bud Charlie Berens would say. I was just really surprised that these notions had already taken hold in 1960. I thought it would take another generation of wokesters before the author of 'White Man's Burden" would fall into disfavor.

Interesting but I couldn't stop thinking Harry Enfield was doing the interview

This interview is from 1958. Pryce-Jones was born in 1908 and he says he's 50 in the interview.