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THE KITE, a Story by Somerset Maugham
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- Fascinating tale.....
"The Kite" by W. Somerset Maugham is a story about Herbert Sunbury, a young man with an unusual passion for flying kites, a hobby he shares with his overbearing mother. Herbert's life is tightly controlled by his mother, who disapproves of his fiancée, Betty. Despite his mother's objections
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I am an 80 year old, really enjoying these Somerset Maugham stories now that wisdom entered the picture.
Being of German descent, I read books by him in my teens to impress my male friends with my cultural upbringing.
But now, these stories are so much more interesting.🤔
Maugham was an excellent storyteller--and quite class conscious….Just as he took delight in name-dropping his famous & wealthy friends, he took almost equal pleasure in delineating the “airs” that he thought the middling classes liked to put on-often with a very acid tongue….
Until I discovered this channel a few weeks ago, Somerset Maugham was just a literary name to me, and I don‘t think I‘d ever read anything by him. But now I‘m amazed at these beautifully crafted and psychologically insightful stories. And while I normally hate and reject AI voices, this one is incredibly sophisticated and easy on the ears.
Thank you for these stories s . There used to be a radio program called ‘Somerset Maugham Theater’. That was 75 years ago. The South Seas seemed so exotic to me! I am now 81 and can appreciatec his gift for observation and description of characters and surroundings. It is delightful! I am grateful and will buy you a cup of coffee as a token of thanks for your efforts; as soon as I can figure out the process! This is not my last visit
How rich is your description. Thank you so much. I was born in 58. My mother was born in 1918. She had many stories that i would just be wrapped to listen to.
Rapped
@@momijiyamanishi4548 wrapt?
@@momijiyamanishi4548 Thank you!
When i was in second grade i sat there listening to my mother telll about being in the second world war and how they had to turn off all the lights. I felt like i was actually there. I guess that was the first experience of listening to a story and i have never forgotten it and so these stories now that we listen to are rich because of our focus i hope i'm making myself clear.
Thanks i love your channel I watch every day I never knew about somerset maugham until you turned me on to him thank you for that
Me, too!
I as well
I'm 68 and have read many of his novels! I love this channel as well.
I'm loving this channel And can listen to these stories all day long. Poor Herbert, I would've pay Betty a dime Either.
So tragic, when you have a narcissist for a parent, you get a narcissist for a partner too.
Each story is a masterpiece and different though they all touch on human psychology.
Most grateful for these superb reflections on human nature during wakeful hours at night time. What a gifted writer indeed
I back the poor husband here. So sorry for him. Thank goodness, no kids.
So do I! To quote Dylan, sort of, he gave her his heart but she wanted his soul
I remember reading this years ago. Reminded me of my father and his love of golf...and fishing.😂
Yes, this story does indeed hit a nerve, doesn‘t it? As it progressed, I was reminded of my ex-wife. Repeatedly…
What's so fascinating about this story is that Herbert has precipitatly married a woman as demanding and domineering as his mother. They're as bad as each other and he's stuck in the middle. His wife thinks he should provide a home but doesn't seem capable of running it, although she doesn't go out to work, and his mother couldn't wait to get him back. It's all rather sad and his only hobby was flying a kite, which seems very innocuous. Maugham observes very well the tension between the two women but I just feel desperately sorry for Herbert.
precipitatly ???
@@paulleverton9569 I do apologise, but these stories turn up on my phone, and I'm not as good at writing on that as when using my computer keyboard. I hope you can make sense of what I wrote, even if you don't agree with it.
Yep his future with women thus far has been bleak. His father seems decent, and the Mother only got that kite to anger Herbert and make him choose between them.
Thank you so much for sharing with us.🤗
I haven't listened to nor read "The Razor's Edge", but i HAVE seen the incomparable movie with Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney and Anne Baxter.
Must see!!!
PS 1946 movie
A wonderfully illustrated example of how a good man of principles runs afoul with an institutionalized tool representing the commodity of law.
Thank you for the posting. Lovely.
the apron strings are more compelling than kite strings, i guess.
Wonderful ❤
My take is that Herbert loved kite flying so much because of the way he was brought up, no freedom of choice. The other is he chose a woman so much like his mother,he knew no better.
Initially, as a child ,when he asked for the kite, he was ridiculed straight away..
Betty was crazy af, Herbert probably chose her since - indeed - she had much in common with his mother. Good he left her, bad he came back to his mother and decided not to support Betty. Sad part is that neither Betty nor Herbert understood it wasn't about the kite... Both were immature and lacked communication skills.
👆🏼There we go, my sentiments precisely.
“Me for bedford!”….This family just killed me 😂
Amazing
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Excellent as always but feel robbed of an ending. Cheers!
Many tks☘️
Thank you 🙏
“Let’s go fly a kite up to the highest height “. I’m not sure what to make of this, except that Herb was a bit too attached to the kite. Unfortunately, his mother had him on a leash.
It's wonderful to be able to hear these beutifully written stories read aloud. Thank you. However, there are odd blurts of intelligable sounds interspersed throughout. Perhaps they are a recording glitch and not a subliminal/neural manipulation...as in neural surfing your audience.
Betty needs to get a job.
Great, thank you 🎉
"Betty is harmless?" This is how many true crime stories go - before she murders him.
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Great story!
I know of some similar cases in which the title should be "the paraglider"
Any truly enthralling hobby would fit here, both then and now!!!
Poor Herbert needed to be with boys his age. Not his parents for play mates.
Your voice reminds me of the fractured fairytales!
Kite string = Apron string
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Love how the magistrate did not even flinch. Probably seen a lot of divorces in his time 😅
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I don't like Betty at all.
Neither did her mother in law
She's a proper wagon, miss Betty
😂 to be fair, her Mother-in-law was being selfish at tea. Which set the stage for Herbert’s rebellion. Both women seem vengeful to me. Although with the Dad paying for her furniture on top of the rent, she might have sent a proper thank you, instead of her rage on an innocent kite.
20:02. Add another … Betty also didn’t get on with her “step ma”. Since Herbert didn’t know her step mom, how did he know that Betty wasn’t also at fault, perhaps even completely. I think Herbert’s mother and Betty BOTH wanted to control him. They were equally set on disliking the other from the start. They were equally snarky from their very first meeting. Neither woman wanted him to be a grown, adult man, but under their control. I was also genuinely surprised with the men discussing the situation, how perplexed they were at Herbert’s love for the sport in his life. I wonder if the two men had no love for any sport or hobby at all, of which many can be named. I was surprised that they saw no problem with Betty’s words and actions. His mother handled her brutally, but the men in authority treated her like a child to be coddled. Handled badly all around, except for Harold’s father. My sympathy went mainly to the one who was foolishly choosing to waste his life - and time with a kite - in a jail which afforded him no kite at all. Why turn to psychology when common sense and fairness would work best?
It feels like the ending is missing. So, what happened?
The beginning is the end. I had to go back and listen to the beginning
Women, let your hubby fly his kite is my advice.
Love the Maugham, but the AI loses the thread on the illustration.
Betty is awful. She should have got a job .
No audio ?
Audio fine.
Sorry..what??? 👂?
Protestant misunderstanding of the sacrament of Matrimony led to this debacle. Bible: " For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife alone." Catholicism would have saved the family by putting the mother in her subordinate place. The kite would have been put aside as an Occasion of Sin.