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Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, then a working-class district of London.
Liza of Lambeth. W. Somerset Maugham. 3.40. 2,213 ratings230 reviews. W. Somerset Maugham’s first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it. Genres ClassicsFictionRomance19th CenturyBritish LiteratureLiteratureHistorical Fiction. ...more.
Aug 12, 2005 · Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Aug 12, 2005 · All at once there was a cry: 'There's Liza!'. And several members of the group turned and called out: 'Oo, look at Liza!'. The dancers stopped to see the sight, and the organ-grinder, having come to the end of his tune, ceased turning the handle and looked to see what was the excitement. 'Oo, Liza!' they called out.
Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim...
Sep 18, 2011 · His first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), which has many features of naturalistic fiction, is often compared to Arthur Morrison’s slum story “Lizerunt” in Tales of Mean Streets, but it may also have been inspired by Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir (1877), “the archetypal late nineteenth-century slum novel.” (Keating, 129) In ...
About Liza of Lambeth. W. Somerset Maugham’s first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it.
