Complex sentence: Edmund Wilson excoriated Maugham's prose in general, and V. S. Naipaul parodied Maugham's novel in his own Half a Life.
Split into simpler sentences: Edmund Wilson excoriated Maugham's prose in general, Edmund Wilson. XXII, 8 June, 96-9 and V. S. Naipaul parodied Maugham's novel in his own Half a Life.