THE MOTHER, A SHORT STORY BY SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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neuralsurfer

Күн бұрын

from the collected stories of Maugham,

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@cristianheilbrunn5850 Ай бұрын

If this is AI, it's superior to almost all human narrators. This channel is extraordinary, and SM is better than most Nobel winners.

@beckerabstracts 4 ай бұрын

One of my favorite authors. Thank you!

@Aiko2-26-9 4 ай бұрын

Passion. A mother's passion. A young's man's passion. A beautiful girl's passion. A believable tale because as humans we are all people of passion and not above letting it get the better of us. Thank you for your excellent rendition of a great story.

@karenbeardwilson 4 ай бұрын

Couldn’t tear myself away until the end. Great author.

@assiamouhoub7393 3 ай бұрын

I love Somerset Maugham short stories. Thank you for the wonderful reading. A real pleasure!😍

@DubblyaDottie Ай бұрын

Wow, that was brutal and realistic! I’m panting, a mere story can stir up emotions. I feel sorry for the son who may not find out that the mother was indeed protecting him from the careless and insane Rosalia. Who knows what Rosalia would have done to ruin the son’s life.

@kathleenmcnally9583 4 ай бұрын

What a pleasure to listen to this reader . It’s rare

@MrRatherino Ай бұрын

what a magnificent story teller of humanity

@Grace.allovertheplace 4 ай бұрын

Hi, thank you (again) 😇🙏 Respectfully, Grace 🩰

@42kellys 2 ай бұрын

The girl was incredibly stupid. One does not try to mess with a woman who is capable of murder out of passion, especially when she knows her story. It would have happened the same way in real life. She taunted her to kill her.

@kellym.9453 4 ай бұрын

Bless her ♥

@maryearll3359 3 ай бұрын

My favourite author. Thank you for posting them all - the ironing seems to get done much quicker and with less sighs from me feeling very hard done by cos I've not got a laundry service. 😂😂❤❤❤

@Yasuko-s3b 3 ай бұрын

I just watching picture because I don't understand what he talking to I just listen to his voice color

@Yasuko-s3b 3 ай бұрын

Picture seems mother doesn't happy background people like a ghost

@harbinger2838 4 ай бұрын

Very well read by Mr. Simon Stanhope.

@bronwenmills6728 4 ай бұрын

I really don’t think so. Sounds like AI to me

@quickchris10 4 ай бұрын

Yes, there were some odd emphases, as if of a limited range. But it has the name, Simon Stanhope. I guess they could give it a name to try to give it some personality. Besides, listened to several audiobooks on this channel, the voice is always exactly the same, but with different names. And sometimes it makes odd mistakes like mispronouncing "bow."

@bronwenmills6728 4 ай бұрын

Suspicious!! I know Simon Stanhope’s channel. His reading is distinctive, some might say mannered, but I’ve grown to like it. I didn’t spot his name in the description.

@fiddlersthree8463 4 ай бұрын

@@bronwenmills6728 No, me neither. To me, it's clearly AI.

@fiddlersthree8463 4 ай бұрын

@@quickchris10 I don't see Simon Stanhope's name anywhere, and it sounds very much like AI, a computer voice to me. I listen to Simon regularly and this is not his voice.

@bettymaugeri7316 3 ай бұрын

A brutal joyless story.

@marysteven6347 2 ай бұрын

Brutal.

@Lyrielonwind 3 ай бұрын

The author made a big mistake when he wrote buona sera; that's Italian, not Spanish.

@alidabaxter5849 3 ай бұрын

I usually like Maugham's stories so much, but I don't like this one. He's attributing an incredibly possessive love to the mother - she'd previously killed to protect her son, not to enslave him. I don't like the son either, because he seems totally ungrateful for the enormous sacrifice she had made for him. It's a story about an ungrateful, careless son, a girl who despises that man's mother, and a mother driven mad by the thought of losing the son for whom she'd already sacrificed so much. Surely somewhere somehow somebody could have shown the mother some kindness?

@42kellys 2 ай бұрын

Surely, but that's not what people do. They are quite like those in the story.

@rumin528 Ай бұрын

Dear, you haven't had a jealous mother-in-law. I had one, she was pretty much the same.

@alidabaxter5849 Ай бұрын

@@rumin528 I didn't have a jealous mother-in-law - I simply had one who believed her son was God and nobody was good enough for him. Unfortunately he believed her. She even derided his father in front of him, so I wasn't the only one to suffer. I have no idea whether her next daughter-in-law was good enough, but that wife didn't speak English so she wouldn't have known what was being said to her, and the happy couple spent the rest of their lives in another country, which must have made everything a bit easier. But I do still feel sorry for the woman in this story because she seems to have had such an awful time, while most of the mothers of sons I've known have been deferred to in everything. I hope you survived.

@Sudique1 3 ай бұрын

Wow!

@WaKincaid 3 ай бұрын

Timeless

@patriciamay6396 3 ай бұрын

Another story about a joyless life from a jaded author

@SunnySmile-fr5yg 2 ай бұрын

Wow, she is messed up!

@ginagabriel2613 3 ай бұрын

🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏💕

@novascheller5957 3 ай бұрын

❤

@Riklott1111 4 ай бұрын

Back to prison !

@feralbluee 3 ай бұрын

💢 I talk about the Story. Do Not Read Before listening!!! Sorry, Simon, your reading was very good, but i don’t agree with the interpretation. what a horrible story. i never thought to read anything like this from Maughm. of course, it wasn’t read with the pathos it should have been read with. one’s sympathy should be with her. she’d sacrificed her whole life for her son. yes, she was psychologically twisted, but the girl was very mean, as was the son. this is truly a tragedy 🎭

@maryearll3359 3 ай бұрын

Feralbluee - Maugham was a very good reader of his times and the people. I believe that some of his writing was to highlight the issues he saw and that his stories of the wealthy were sometimes written with tongue in cheek also echoing the imbalance of the times.

@kauffrau6764 3 ай бұрын

Agree it was a tragic tale. I could feel the mother’s pain. The ending was inevitable.

@Lyrielonwind 3 ай бұрын

That's a very possesive mother. Her son had the right to fall in love. I guess you think he had to give up his life so he won't make his mother jealous. That's ridiculous.

@kunnakunna1508 Ай бұрын

Nice story .Most mothers like to mother their sons without realising that the son has to leave her apron strings and will fall in love in time to come .The tussle for the young man''s love is the cause of many quarrels between mother in laws and daughters in law ..Quite common amongst the indians l should say .