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A Review of short story The Luncheon by W S Maugham
Title: A Review of short story The Luncheon by W S Maugham
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1122 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Review of short story The Luncheon by W S Maugham
LUNCHEON- A REVIEW
W S Maugham was young and naïve, and was living in Paris, some twenty years from the time of writing this striking short story with a twist of irony. His first literary works were just published. Like any young writer, he craved for admiration. And that's what he got when he received a fan mail from a lady, lavishly praising one of his just published works. He was elated and wrote …showed first 75 words of 1122 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1122 total…suggested to take only one item for luncheon, retorted back that he would eat nothing for dinner. It was a true statement. But the woman failed to understand it and called the author humorist.
Maugham had his revenge at last-not by inflicting any punishment on her but by poetic justice. Meeting her twenty year later in the theatre, found her weighing twenty-one stone. He observed with complacency the way the immortal gods mete out justice.
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