Maugham is a good mix of irony, cynicism and the absurd, ie of, respectively speaking, Greek tragedy, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Beckett--What more, what better would a reader expect from a writer!
EM Forster ceased writing novels in 1924 because he felt that a certain sort of social relationship died in England
In the light of recent biographical excavations, Maugham was a practising gay who with his fellow-gayman Gerald Haxton shared a beautiful 16-year-old French male whore nicknamed Loulou.
Recent biography also revealed that EM Forster loved passionately two countries: India and Egypt where in the former he befriended Ross ben Masoud to whom and to whose 17-year friendship he dedicated his "A Passage to India" and in the latter he befriended Mohammed elAdl, an Alexandrian tram conductor
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