Rain (short story)

Rain is a 1921 short story by W. Somerset Maugham about a prostitute, Sadie Thompson, and a missionary. The story was the basis of a number of adaptations including Rain, a 1922 play by John Colton and Clemence Randolph, Sadie Thompson, a 1928 silent film starring Gloria Swanson, and Sadie Thompson, a 1977 opera by U.S. judge Richard Owen.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Operas in English: A Dictionary Margaret Ross Griffel - 2012- Page 429 0810883252 "Sadie Thompson, opera by Richard Owen; libretto (Eng) by the composer, after Somerset Maugham's short story Rain (1921). "
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