This author used his experiences training as an obstetrician to write his first novel, about a factory worker who has an affair with Jim Blakeston and dies after a miscarriage.
This author used his experiences training as an obstetrician to write his first novel, about a factory worker who has an affair with Jim Blakeston and dies after a miscarriage. A later short story describes missionary Davidson's attempts to convert prostitute Sadie Thompson. Besides Liza of Lambeth and "Rain", this author also wrote about painter David Strickland's journey to Tahiti in a work based on the life of Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence. In one of his more famous works, World War I veteran Larry Darrell travels to Paris and then India in search of spiritual guidance, while an autobiographical work describes the life of clubfooted Philip Carey. FTP, name this British author of The Razor's Edge and Of Human Bondage.
This author used his experiences training as an obstetrician to write his first novel, about a factory worker who has an affair with Jim Blakeston and dies after a miscarriage.
William Somerset {Maugham}