The description of the men and women in the restaurant was so lovely! So sad no one can ever describe the guests in a restaurant like that today.

S.Maughan😍elegant, deep, unconventional, fascinating writer.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this! The first and last time I read "The Promise" was in 1968, when I was 20 years old. It's wonderful to hear it again!! This is my favorite Somerset Maugham story. Next, I'm going to enjoy "The Three Fat Women of Antibes." People may not know that Lady Elizabeth Vermont was based upon the real Idina Sackville, daughter of the Earl of De La Warre. You can read a biography written by Idina's great granddaughter, Frances Osborne, "The Bolter." Idina's first husband, Euan Wallace, left her for fortune hunter Barbie Lutyens. Idina never stopped loving him. When she died, his photograph was by her bed.

I didn’t want this to end. I thoroughly enjoyed it so much.

Great - even the pronunciation of “wound” as in hurt, rather than winding up a watch 🤣But really enjoying these uploads - thank you!

Of all the great writers my parents introduced me to I remain forever grateful that they introduced me to Somerset Maugham.

Lovely listening. Thank you.

I’m so glad I stumbled on this channel. Elizabeth the original cougar. How wonderful that she found to be true to herself. At 69 I truly enjoyed the lady as much as the gentleman.

No-one could ever love an elephant, as another elephant does- they are the most noble of all creatures, and deserve our undying love, and loyalty. I will love you, all of you, for ever. God bless you always. ❤❤❤❤❤

Always a fan of Somerset Maugham. I have a set of his novels. Need to re read them again.

wow. I just stumbled on your channel!! I so hope to see more videos like this! Thanks.

Lovely. But 'wownd' not 'woond'. Watches used to be wound every night. Seems a long time ago.

A story of excellently told.

"WOONd it"? Does AI stab watches?

Nicely read! I wished the story to continue: perhaps someone should try to pick up where Maugham left off.

Excellent reading. Another era with the elegance of the time now almost completely lost !!!

The best writer ever,such a pleasure to watch this. Thanks a lot ❤

Loved it !

Wow - You’ve surprised me with this story, wherever did you find it? I’m a huge WSM fan and thought I knew all his stories! Thank you!

Excellent!

Thank you for posting. Too bad some people think it is just bland description. Terrific writing. It hasnt been until I reached my later years that I appreciate his subtlety.

Elizabeth sounds Wonderful

❤ thank you 🙏

Most enjoyable.

Very , joyous, revealing inside into a person character. I have to read some other books by him. He was powerful.

Ravaged beauty~ at 50? My goodness!

Loved it. Thank you

Brilliant.

Charming

As a young college girl I read Forever Amber novel. MY cousin Dhruva brought over after his long train journey where he read.

Just lovely 🌹🌹🌹

I recommend anyone to read "The Necklace" (Guy de Maupassant) - is very much in the same vein as The Promise.

I am curious as to the music. It would be nice to know name and artist.

Thank you!!!

My best friend worked at the Vatican for several years. He said you could always tell who the American tourists - fat and badly dressed.

genius🥰😍🤩😘😊

AI narration is getting quite good.

Wound as in round!

Utterly delicious...

Yeah, great but men did NOT wear hats in restaurants, in those or any other days.

whilst the colonised nations by the British Goverments were deprived of their freedom and natural resources of their own countries....so that the people in the UK could enjoy what is described here....

Anyone know the name of the narrator?

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Not so simple, it betrays the personality of the character.

White America. Lost forever….. coarsened by multi cultural largesse. White America mourned….but not forgotten.

Why don't they declare that these things are only verbal narrations? While I have adored Somerset Maughm's books for many decades, I'd rather read him... there is no point in reading him on YT.

Maugham certainly wasn't at a loss of words to describe the same thing.

3 commercials in 15.5 minutes, YIKES

1:34 "The watch might go if she wound it" -- wooned??? He pronounces "wound" like wooned, as in an injury, instead of wowned, as in past tense of what a person does who winds a clock. Honestly! Awful narration!

Don’t even have to check; can tell Maugham was a snarky gay man

a simple narrative with nothing remarkable in it, thousand times such incidents happen in everyday lives, maybe at that time it must have been salacious to write.