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Reviews for The Hero
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm surprised that so few people have read Maugham's early novel, 'The Hero.' Published only four years after 'Liza of Lambeth', which struck me as wholly un-Maughamesque, 'The Hero' contains the essence of everything Maugham would become. The protagonist, James Parson, returns home wounded after the Boer War. Before leaving with the forces, he became engaged to simple, honest Mary, but now, five years later, he has seen enough of the world to know that he cannot marry her - he does not love her. So much of this sounds like the plot of 'The Razor's Edge,' and the similarities with that novel and others in the Maugham oeuvre are impossible to ignore. And then there is that uniquely Maughamesque quality - wit coupled with deep, intellectual insight - that runs through this novel just as it would elsewhere in Maugham's career. All in all, a fascinating, worthwhile read, and not one purely for the completist.
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