![]() A year later-the year he bought a villa in Cap Ferrat-“The Letter,” one of the stories from “The Casuarina Tree,” was adapted for the theatre. By 1926, he had launched two very successful careers, as a novelist and a playwright (his collected plays would come to fill six volumes). His slightest pronouncements fattened a thousand provincial newspaper columns. Wherever he went, his spoor was tracked by readers and journalists. As his biographer Selina Hastings writes, “For much of his long life”-he died in 1965, at ninety-one-Maugham was “the most famous writer in the world.” He had the kind of celebrity that now attends actors, musicians, and criminal politicians. Maugham was at the height of his success, as a great, and greatly rewarded, writer of immense dexterity and enormous efficiency. In the same year, the English writer W. Somerset Maugham published “ The Casuarina Tree,” a book of six short stories. “But the kick of life is instantly concealed by more dexterity, further efficiency.” “Through the thick counterpane of immense dexterity and enormous efficiency one has glimpses of something vital within,” she wrote. Death is a hearse.” Once in a while, she had found herself in a darkened cinema with an apprehension of what film might achieve. They would have to find their own artistic language, since they were currently imprisoned in a system of dead convention and mechanical semaphore: “A kiss is love. ![]() Woolf argued that the movies were too literary. ![]() In 1926, Virginia Woolf wrote an essay about an innocent young art form: the silent cinema.
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