Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
His most accessible work, this is a simple comedy about the mild-mannered Rosie Driffield who married the Grand Old Man of Letters (widely thought to be based on Thomas Hardy). It also features Alvoy Kear, a writer who majors on self-promotion. William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 in Paris, and died in 1965. He was married in 1917 and it lasted only two years with the birth of a child before the couple decided to live apart. Thereinafter he stayed with his companion Gerald Haxton and they traveled widely together, settling down on the French Riviera. Gained major success with 'The Circle' and 'East of Suez'.
C.C. (U.K., 2016)