TURN OFF THE SALIVA SETTING!!! HTF DOES A FAKE VOICE HAVE THIS MUCH MOISTURE IN IT?? Probably a good story ruined

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Somerset Maugham wrote truly remarkable, thoughtful stories!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I'm left speechless

Very amusing!

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Charming

Thank you for these helping me through some crazy days nights

Is this an AI channel?

Not his best. Vague. No empathy generated.

This story reveals why Maughan was considered a mediocre writer. He couldn't imagine the real beauty and pleasure found in a dutiful life. Sommerset Maughan seen only one side of the coin, but he was brilliantly witty and insightful at times.

Thank you. This is absolutely horrifically consuming. Truly human inhumanity.

My heart was in my mouth until you read that he got home safely😂

Excellent!!! Thank you

A sad tale. Humans are so complicated.

What a put down for women .

No more Maugham, all these idiots unlife themselves.

I cannot get the last words out of my head, this is so emotional

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Many thanks for putting this up. A great short story from the master storyteller.

Most of you aren't old drunks, makes sense to me

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An excellent story that exhibits a great deal of the attitudes of colonialism and xenophobia of its time. It also paints a (deservedly, to my mind) bleak picture of missionaries that remains a valid critique of that nightmarish enterprise.

Hv never heard a story where I listen to every word so intently n told so well. Waiting for the nx one.

I am taken with the Excellent illustrations. Can you tell us more about them? Thank you.

Thank you.

A wonderful moving story of a man who came to greatness in a mundane way.

Most enjoyable.

Rather meh ending

This spoke right to my heart

Subtle yet obvious...jus brilliant....❤

Good story. I was hoping Miss Thompson would kill him though. A gal had to do what she had to do in a tough male dominated world. From the p.o.v. of an indigenous person I've got to say, "Missionaries, am I right"?

Maugham's writing is so euphonic and the narration so good that listening to this story was as effortless as strolling downhilll. I feel empathy for the father. His advice was sound. Nicki was lucky all around, and luck is a fickle thing. He'll have to learn that the hard way.

Thank you. Wonderful play.🇮🇪🙏❤️🥳✝️

What an amazing, lively story! Thanks for sharing!

To few is given "the dark night of the soul", the ultimate test of faith. Powerful.

Awesome vids!

I didn’t understand the ending.

oh dear

Lord, what a story!

😄💬 " And that is the rest of the story" > (Paul Harvey) 🤠 Yup❕ G~G. 🗳☑🇺🇸.

Yes, things are not clearly spelled out, are they? I will listen to it again. But I was reminded of something Alice Munro, another master short story writer, said in an interview. She said that her goal is simply to look very, very well at what is. Perhaps that's a way to look at this story: the cultured, gentle character of the Count; his encounter with some human evil in the midst of a refined event; the effect that has on him, and on the narrator. It makes me think of the mysterious strangeness of the world, and what a challenge it is to be at ease in it. But I will listen again . . .

If catholics are taught they should pray for someone AFTER they die, they should go read the Bible they claim to believe

No sound..........😢

It is simply beautiful.

Listening to this with Apocalypse Now running through my head Brilliant

Maugham me parece un genio escribiendo relatos cortos. Leí sus novelas The Razor's Edge y From Human Bondage, que me parecieron muy buenas, pero su estilo literario me parece demasiado formal y sobrio, por eso creo que brilla más en los cuentos. Su lectura es muy hermosa y se sigue muy bien por alguien como yo que no domina el inglés. Thank you very much for your work!

The question I have is, “What is the idea?” Is it the Horror which he might despair of separating from the human heart?

How in the world could Achebe ignore this part of the novel in his criticism of the book?