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The article cites Queen Victoria's Jubilee as the temporal setting of the novel, but it makes a big difference which jubilee is intended, because her Diamond Jubilee was in 1897, the date of the novel's publication, making it the present day, while her Golden Jubilee was ten years previously, making it a sort of historical novel. Funfree ( talk) 12:44, 29 May 2014 (UTC) reply

I don't think the Golden Jubilee would have been described as "turn of the century." J S Ayer ( talk) 20:04, 2 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Is it Blakeston for sure, or Blakestone? Funfree ( talk) 13:15, 29 May 2014 (UTC) reply

Is this book never discussed by critics who write about Maugham? -- Orange Mike | Talk 16:16, 24 October 2021 (UTC) reply