Скачать или смотреть LORD MOUNTDRAGO, W Somerset Maugham

Power, pride, and punishment collide in one of Somerset Maugham’s most haunting tales. Dr. Audlin, a weary psychoanalyst with a gift he neither understands nor trusts, finds himself drawn into the tortured psyche of Lord Mountdrago—Britain’s brilliant but arrogant Foreign Secretary. Mountdrago is at the height of his career, commanding Parliament and foreign policy alike, yet night after night he is stalked by grotesque dreams that strip him of dignity and gnaw at his sanity. At the center of these visions is Owen Griffiths, a humiliated Welsh MP whom Mountdrago once destroyed with merciless ridicule. What begins as harmless nightmares soon becomes a waking persecution: Griffiths laughs, mocks, and even suffers the injuries Mountdrago inflicts in dream. As Dr. Audlin probes deeper, he discovers that only repentance can free Mountdrago—but pride proves stronger than salvation. When death comes, it arrives in chilling symmetry, binding dream and reality in a final act of retribution. Lord Mountdrago is not just a story of a man undone by guilt—it is a parable of arrogance, conscience, and the terrible price of refusing to bend.