Performed by Alex Jennings. — BBC Radio Audiobook, 2007. — 128 kbps. — Duration 02:45:39 A fact is a poor story-teller as Maugham reminds us. Fact starts a story at random, rambles on inconsequently and tails off, leaving loose ends, without a conclusion. It works up to an interesting situation, has no sense of climax and whittles away its dramatic effects in irrelevance. While...
Performed by James Saxon. — AudioGO Ltd, 2011. — 128 kbps. — Duration 06:31:00. This book is set partly in London and partly in North Kent - especially Blackstable (Whitstable), Tercanbury (Canterbury) and Ferne Bay (Herne Bay), and takes place mostly in the 1920s but with long flashbacks to the 1890s. Fundamentally it's a satire on the literary world. There is a biographer...
Performed by James Saxon. — AudioGO Ltd, 2011. — 128 kbps. — Duration 06:31:00. This book is set partly in London and partly in North Kent - especially Blackstable (Whitstable), Tercanbury (Canterbury) and Ferne Bay (Herne Bay), and takes place mostly in the 1920s but with long flashbacks to the 1890s. Fundamentally it's a satire on the literary world. There is a biographer...
Performed by Harriet Carmichael. — Audible, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 08:32:00. Crippled 16-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when...
Performed by Harriet Carmichael. - Audible, 2012. - 128 kbps. Duration: 08:32:00. Crippled 16-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when...
Performed by Harriet Carmichael. — Audible, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 08:32:00. Crippled 16-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when...
Performed by Ben Elliot. - Audible Ltd, 2012. - 128 kbps. Duration: 09:19:00. For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid. It should have been a lark, but on his first night Charley meets a woman whose story will forever change his life. For Lydia has seen tragedy. The Russian Revolution displaced her family, left her homeless,...
Performed by Ben Elliot. - Audible Ltd, 2012. - 128 kbps. Duration: 09:19:00. For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid. It should have been a lark, but on his first night Charley meets a woman whose story will forever change his life. For Lydia has seen tragedy. The Russian Revolution displaced her family, left her homeless,...
Performed by Ben Elliot. - Audible Ltd, 2012. - 128 kbps. Duration: 09:19:00. For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid. It should have been a lark, but on his first night Charley meets a woman whose story will forever change his life. For Lydia has seen tragedy. The Russian Revolution displaced her family, left her homeless,...
Short stories, all born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle or the remembered East of a repatriate's suburban home, they reveal Maugham as a shrewd and human judge of character and soul.
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2012. — 128 kbps. — Duration 27:44:00. Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate...
Original audio+Text. One of Maugham’s most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force their moral beliefs on a girl who basically just wants to have fun. At a running time of approximately 1 3/4 hours, it is too long for inclusion in a Short Story collection.
Publisher: KCRW National Public Radio Genre: short stories Date: 2000 Reader: Miriam Margolyes, Michael York, Alfred Molina, Martin Jarvis. Ready for some math? KCRW gathered 11 top-notch performers to read 20 of Maugham's short stories on this ten-hour/ten-CD collection. The result is a wonderful portrait of the man and his writing that will delight fans and provide a pleasing...
Publisher: KCRW National Public Radio Genre: short stories Date: 2000 Reader: Miriam Margolyes, Michael York, Alfred Molina, Martin Jarvis. Ready for some math? KCRW gathered 11 top-notch performers to read 20 of Maugham's short stories on this ten-hour/ten-CD collection. The result is a wonderful portrait of the man and his writing that will delight fans and provide a pleasing...
Publisher: KCRW National Public Radio Genre: short stories Date: 2000 Reader: Miriam Margolyes, Michael York, Alfred Molina, Martin Jarvis. Ready for some math? KCRW gathered 11 top-notch performers to read 20 of Maugham's short stories on this ten-hour/ten-CD collection. The result is a wonderful portrait of the man and his writing that will delight fans and provide a pleasing...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2013. — 96 kbps. — Duration 08:34:00. Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay in Upper Burma, down through Thailand to Bangkok, then to Phnom Penh and across the jungle by...
Performed by Charlton Griffin. — Audio Connoisseur, 2013. — 96 kbps. — Duration 08:34:00. Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay in Upper Burma, down through Thailand to Bangkok, then to Phnom Penh and across the jungle by...
Performed by Frederick Davison. — Blackstone Audiobooks. — 64 kbps. The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life.
Performed by Frederick Davison. — Blackstone Audiobooks. — 64 kbps. The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life.
The book revolves throughout around the character of Strickland and the quality of his art, actually describing the life of Paul Gauguin. Great thought-provoking reading for Upper-Intermediate students.
The book revolves throughout around the character of Strickland and the quality of his art, actually describing the life of Paul Gauguin. Great thought-provoking reading for Upper-Intermediate students.
The book revolves throughout around the character of Strickland and the quality of his art, actually describing the life of Paul Gauguin. Great thought-provoking reading for Upper-Intermediate students.
Performed by David Thorpe. — Audible Ltd, 2013. — 128 kbps. — Duration 8:15:07. Three men voyaging together in a small vessel--an exiled doctor, a disreputable sea captain, and a young man fleeing from justice--are driven to take shelter on a small island in the Malay Archipelago. Their lives are soon shattered by a strange, exotic girl of English parentage, but oriental in her...
Performed by David Thorpe. — Audible Ltd, 2013. — 128 kbps. — Duration 8:15:07. Three men voyaging together in a small vessel--an exiled doctor, a disreputable sea captain, and a young man fleeing from justice--are driven to take shelter on a small island in the Malay Archipelago. Their lives are soon shattered by a strange, exotic girl of English parentage, but oriental in her...
Performed by David Thorpe. — Audible Ltd, 2013. — 128 kbps. — Duration 8:15:07. Three men voyaging together in a small vessel--an exiled doctor, a disreputable sea captain, and a young man fleeing from justice--are driven to take shelter on a small island in the Malay Archipelago. Their lives are soon shattered by a strange, exotic girl of English parentage, but oriental in her...
Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2007. Duration: 7 h 19 m Quality: 192 kbps Reader: Kate Reading First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to...
Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2007. Duration: 7 h 19 m Quality: 192 kbps Reader: Kate Reading First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to...
Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2007. Duration: 7 h 19 m Quality: 192 kbps Reader: Kate Reading First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to...
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by...
Performed by Michael Page. — Brilliance Audio, 2004. — 96 kbps. — Duration 11:09:00. The Great War changed everything and the years following it were tumultuous - most of all for those who lived the war first-hand. Maugham himself is a character in this novel of self-discovery and search for meaning, but the protagonist is a character named Larry. Battered physically and...
Performed by Michael Page. — Brilliance Audio, 2004. — 96 kbps. — Duration 11:09:00. The Great War changed everything and the years following it were tumultuous - most of all for those who lived the war first-hand. Maugham himself is a character in this novel of self-discovery and search for meaning, but the protagonist is a character named Larry. Battered physically and...
Performed by Michael Page. — Brilliance Audio, 2004. — 96 kbps. — Duration 11:09:00. The Great War changed everything and the years following it were tumultuous - most of all for those who lived the war first-hand. Maugham himself is a character in this novel of self-discovery and search for meaning, but the protagonist is a character named Larry. Battered physically and...
Read by Bernard Mayes. — 24 kbps. Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored by her handsome husband, coquettish, and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love. William Somerset...
Performed by Andrew Wincott. - Audible Studios, 2012. - 128 kbps. Duration: 07:17:00. Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue, and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer, and high priest of schemers.
Performed by Andrew Wincott. - Audible Studios, 2012. - 128 kbps. Duration: 07:17:00. Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue, and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer, and high priest of schemers.
Performed by Andrew Wincott. - Audible Studios, 2012. - 128 kbps. Duration: 07:17:00. Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue, and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer, and high priest of schemers.
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