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The Land of Promise

W. Somerset Maugham

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . ask because she consulted me about making a fresh will a couple of years ago. She told me what she wanted to do, but gave me no actual instructions to draw it. I thought perhaps she might have done it herself.

Norah.

I heard nothing about it. I’m sure that her only will is in your hands.

Wynne.

Then I think we may take it that this....

[Dorothy suddenly understands; she interrupts quickly.]

Dorothy.

When was that will made?

Wynne.

Eight or nine years ago.... The exact date was March 4th, 1904.

[Dorothy gives Norah a long, searching look.]

Dorothy.

When did you first come to Miss Wickham?

Norah.

At the end of nineteen hundred and three.

[There is a slight pause.]

Wynne.

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Community Reviews

The short story “The Promise” by William Somerset Maugham is dedicated to the universal feeling, it is about love. But love which was described here has features which can not always be met - it is self-sacrificing.

Another subject which was told in the story is a difference in age in marriage and ho

This was one of the short novels in The Complete Works of Somerset Maugham that I bought very inexpensively for my Kindle app. It was lovely--romantic, heartwarming, and just right for a time of "sheltering in place" because of Covid 19. I was sorry to see it end.

This is the Somerset Maugham equivalent to Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome. Which merely means both books do not reflect the usual stories I've come to love and associate with each writer. I am a big fan of Edith Wharton's stories, but I'll read this over Ethan Frome any day.

This read was of a novelization of Maugham's play. Reads a bit Mills & Boon as far as the romance and prarie situation goes, but the class comments show the very early twentieth century preoccupation that began to slip away after the Boer and First WW. Maugham's plays were amazingly popular during t