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SAMUEL J. ROGAL is Chair of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at Illinois Valley Community College. He has written some 150 articles, and his more than 25 books include A Companion to the Characters in the Fiction of W. Somerset Maugham (1996), Sing Glory and Hallelujah! Historical and Biographical Guide to Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 Complete (1996), Agriculture in Britain and America, 1660-1820: An Annotated Bibliography of the Eighteenth Century Literature (1994), Medicine in Great Britain from the Restoration to the Nineteenth Century, 1660-1800 (1992), A Chronological Outline of American Literature (1987), A Guide to the Hymns and Tunes of American Methodism, 1878-1964 (1986), The Children's Jubilee: A Bibliographical Survey of Hymnals for Infants, Youths and Sunday Schools Published in Britain and America, 1655-1900 (1983), and A Chronological Outline of British Literature (1980), all published by Greenwood.
?Rogal has produced a useful, accessible guide to Maugham's life,
career, and works... Articles include biographical entries on
Maugham and his family, friends, and associates, plus some of those
who influenced his art. Articles on each of Maugham's works,
including those very obscure, are tightly written and informative.
In addition, Rogal includes helpful accounts of movies and plays
based on Maugham's fiction...valuable guidance for Maugham readers
and scholars.?-Choice
"Rogal has produced a useful, accessible guide to Maugham's life,
career, and works... Articles include biographical entries on
Maugham and his family, friends, and associates, plus some of those
who influenced his art. Articles on each of Maugham's works,
including those very obscure, are tightly written and informative.
In addition, Rogal includes helpful accounts of movies and plays
based on Maugham's fiction...valuable guidance for Maugham readers
and scholars."-Choice
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