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ALIEN CORN, Somerset Maugham

What happens when the weight of inheritance collides with the fire of artistic longing? In The Alien Corn, Somerset Maugham weaves a tale of elegance, exile, and the aching price of self-discovery. Ferdy Rabenstein, the dazzling relic of a vanished age, embodies charm and contradiction, while his great-nephew George Bland wrestles with the destiny carved out for him by family, class, and blood. To the Blands, George is the future of an English lineage; to himself, he is nothing less than an artist, willing to risk scandal, fortune, and love for the chance to make music his life. But when genius proves elusive, the story moves from comedy of manners to quiet tragedy. At once witty and devastating, The Alien Corn strips bare illusions of heritage and identity to reveal the raw hunger at the heart of human ambition.