The Making of a Saint
By W. Somerset Maugham
12 May, 2020
THE MAKING OF A SAINT, published in 1898, was W. Somerset Maugham's second novel. He always regarded it as his black sheep, even tried to suppress its republication.
His disaffection is not easy to understand. The book enjoyed a good reception and c
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THE MAKING OF A SAINT, published in 1898, was W. Somerset Maugham's second novel. He always regarded it as his black sheep, even tried to suppress its republication.
His disaffection is not easy to understand. The book enjoyed a good reception and continues to be well-reviewed. It remains today, as it was on publication, an intense and highly colored novel of plot and counterplot, passion, and intrigue......... A fine story of 15th century Italy. Intrigue and assassination were standard issue and targets as likely to be clerical as courtly...in this ferment of sinners, the Saint was a miracle. Less