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  1. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. There is a brief Study Guide for this narrative. But you should not take it up until you have reread this little story a few times.

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      Study Guide to "The Appointment in Samarra" (as retold by W....

  2. W. Somerset Maugham's retelling of an ancient Mesopotamian tale, which appears as an epigraph for the novel by John O'Hara A merchant in Baghdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions. Soon afterwards, the servant comes home white and trembling and tells him that in the marketplace, he was jostled by a woman, whom he recognized as ...

  3. In his short version of the Mesopotamian folk tale "Appointment in Samarra", W. Somerset Maugham etches a perfect tale of fatal destiny. In Baghdad, a merchant sends his servant to the...

  4. Aug 21, 2000 · Study Guide to "The Appointment in Samarra" (as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933]) It's best not to read further in this study guide until you have completed your first reading. After you've read the savored the story a few times, give some thought to the following issues.

  5. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture ...

  6. O’Hara borrows the phrase “appointment in Samarra” from a play, Sheppy (1933), by W. Somerset Maugham, whose allusion is to an ancient Arabic fable in which a merchant’s servant ...

  7. Appointment in Samarra, published in 1934, is the first novel by American writer John O'Hara (1905–1970). It concerns the self-destruction of the fictional character Julian English, a wealthy car dealer who was once a member of the social elite of Gibbsville (O'Hara's fictionalized version of Pottsville, Pennsylvania ).