tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post5125356514155693126..comments2023-06-18T05:44:02.991-04:00Comments on My Maugham Collection: Chronicles of Barabbas 1884-1934 by George H. DoranUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-8718421015609383342015-09-03T06:57:11.850-04:002015-09-03T06:57:11.850-04:00Doran sounds like a Maugham character all right. &...Doran sounds like a Maugham character all right. "No one cares 400 pages-worth what a publisher has to say." -- hahaha... Something about a publisher that's quite funny. Alfred Vallette, the founder and editor in chief of Mercure de France, was asked one day if he had read a certain book, and he said: "Good God, no. Isn't it enough that I published it?"My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-48907024985404558672015-09-02T19:26:39.244-04:002015-09-02T19:26:39.244-04:00Well I read this book. I simply couldn't get t...Well I read this book. I simply couldn't get through all 400 pages of it. At around the 220 page mark I was thinking, "Okay, this book can end around here. No one cares 400 pages-worth what a publisher has to say." I got to page 310. Doran was a snob. He was a Canadian-American who took too many trips to England. Maugham would have satirized him. Doran, in this book, was obsessed Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-25780126025592987202015-07-13T06:52:01.277-04:002015-07-13T06:52:01.277-04:00It's very true, about the fragility of first e...It's very true, about the fragility of first editions. I only read mine at home and do so with extra care too. I rarely read any physical books nowadays, except Maugham's and the ones that have no ebooks. That's probably the second thing that I do that actually moves on with time. <br /><br />I personally prefer Heinemann's, because of the size, easier to hold. My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-67975800768935357562015-07-12T19:30:49.578-04:002015-07-12T19:30:49.578-04:00I just bought the first edition with dust-jacket o...I just bought the first edition with dust-jacket of this book on ABE for around $20. I thought it would go well with my Grant Overton book. I really like the Doran editions of Maugham's books. I prefer Doran's printings of "The Explorer," and "The Magician" to any other. I also bought a reading copy of Doran's printing of "The Moon and Sixpence" - not theAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-55921211646399515952014-03-07T06:26:37.573-05:002014-03-07T06:26:37.573-05:00Thank you for the link to this book. I've down...Thank you for the link to this book. I've downloaded it and, skimming throught it in a Maugham-orientated way, it looks quite interesting (though sometimes I struggle with Doran's somewhat convoluted style: "were I given freedom of choice as to that book which I would first choose to have written had I the genius and wit").<br /><br />Once I thought of writing an essay on Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16093061780494131162noreply@blogger.com