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"The Lotus Eater" is a short story by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before .
Much of his non-fictional writing was published in book form, and covered a range of topics, including travel, current affairs, autobiography and belles lettres. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Maugham was also editor on a number of works, which often included adding a preface or introductory chapter to the work of other writers.
The lotus fruit is about the size of the lentisk berry and in sweetness resembles the date. [6] The lotus-eaters even succeed in obtaining from it a sort of wine. [7] Polybius identifies the land of the lotus-eaters as the island of Djerba (ancient Meninx), off the coast of Tunisia. [1] Later, this identification is supported by Strabo. [8]
The Lotos-Eaters is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in Tennyson's 1832 poetry collection. It was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam , where they visited the Pyrenees mountains.
The Lotus Eaters (2010) is a novel by Tatjana Soli. [1] [2] [3] [4] It tells the story of an American woman who goes to war-torn Vietnam as a combat photojournalist ...
Herodotus identifies the land of the lotus-eaters as a headland in the territory of the Gindanes tribe in Libya, and Thucydides reports the standard identifications mentioned above. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Herodotus and Thucydides do not actively euhemerise, but simply take local myths at face value for the political importance they had at the time.
"The Lotus Eaters" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in the April 1935 issue of Astounding Stories. "The Lotus Eaters" was Weinbaum's fifth published story, and is a sequel to " Parasite Planet ".
The Summing Up is a literary memoir by W. Somerset Maugham, written when he was 64 years old, first published in 1938. [1] It covered his life from 1890 to 1938. The subject matter includes his childhood, his initial success in theater, his transition from theater to fiction writing, and other miscellaneous topics such as travel, and philosophy.