937 p. Rain. The Fall of Edward Barnard. Honolulu. The Ant and the Grasshopper. The Pool. Mackintosh. The Three Fat Women of Antibes. The Facts of Life. Gigolo and Gigolette. The Voice of the Turtle. The Unconquered. The Escape. Mr Know-All. The Romantic Young Lady. A Man From Glasgow. Before the Party. The Vessel of Wrath. Louise. The Promise. The Yellow Streak. The Force of...
937 p. Rain. The Fall of Edward Barnard. Honolulu. The Ant and the Grasshopper. The Pool. Mackintosh. The Three Fat Women of Antibes. The Facts of Life. Gigolo and Gigolette. The Voice of the Turtle. The Unconquered. The Escape. Mr Know-All. The Romantic Young Lady. A Man From Glasgow. Before the Party. The Vessel of Wrath. Louise. The Promise. The Yellow Streak. The Force of...
937 p. Rain. The Fall of Edward Barnard. Honolulu. The Ant and the Grasshopper. The Pool. Mackintosh. The Three Fat Women of Antibes. The Facts of Life. Gigolo and Gigolette. The Voice of the Turtle. The Unconquered. The Escape. Mr Know-All. The Romantic Young Lady. A Man From Glasgow. Before the Party. The Vessel of Wrath. Louise. The Promise. The Yellow Streak. The Force of...
New York: Berkley, 1958. A collection of six short stories. Six Stories, first published in 1933, contains William Somerset Maugham's Maylaysian (or Malaya as it was then) stories: Footprints in the Jungle. The Door of Opportunity. The Vessel of Wrath. The Book Bag The Back of Beyond. Neil MacAdam.. Each was as excellent and readable as the other.
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively,...
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively,...
Vintage, 2000. - 308 p. Rosie, in less decorous days, had been married to a famous author whose second wife later nursed him into the position of Grand Old Man of English Letters. Some have professed to see a likeness to Thomas Hardy in Edward Driffield, and to Hugh Walpole in Alroy Kear, the ambitious but untalented biographer. Maugham, however, denied any such connection.
Book in English, First vintage international edition, December 2000, 94 p. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham tells the story of author William Ashenden's series of contracts over decades with a greatly renowned novelist, and the need of his would-be biographer for details that William alone can provide. The novel deals with the craft of writing and the foibles of those who...
New York: Sundial Press, 1938. Very Short Stories. Raw Material. Mayhew. German Harry. The Happy Man. The Dream. In a Strange Land. The Luncheon. Salvatore. Home. Mr. Know-All. The Escape. A Friend in Need. The Portrait of a Gentleman. The End of the Flight. The Judgement Seat. The Ant and the Grasshopper. French Joe. The Man with the Scar. The Poet. Louise. The Closed Shop....
New York: Doubleday, 1953. Rain. The Fall of Edward Barnard. Mackintosh. Red. Honolulu. The Pool. The Letter. Before the Party. The Force of Circumstance. The Outstation. The Yellow Streak. Jane. The Round Dozen. The Creative Impulse. Miss King. The Hairless Mexican. Giulia Lazzari. The Traitor. His Excellency. Mr. Harrington’s Washing. Footprints in the Jungle. The Human...
Maugham, William Somerset. Lisa of Lambeth. Maugham, W. Somerset. Liza of Lambeth. 1988. Historical prose. Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with...
Maugham, William Somerset. Lisa from Lambeth. Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street (obviously fictional) off...
Maugham, William Somerset. Lisa from Lambeth. Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street (obviously fictional) off...
Maugham, William Somerset. Lisa from Lambeth. Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street (obviously fictional) off...
Mr. Know-All by Somerset Maugham.This is also an old story, much anthologised. This setting is a shipboard. There is an assortment of travellers cruising from the US to Japan. Among them is Kaleda, a fellow who brags that he knows everything and that he can never be wrong. The narrator dislikes him for his breezy manners and for his cocksureness. There is the inevitable...
A young woman, carried away by passion, sees a chance to escape a dull life and to experience true love. But she discovers that little in her marriage to the dutiful and sensible Edward meets her expectations. And as passion dies, she finds herself trapped in a loveless, oppressive marriage.
A young woman, carried away by passion, sees a chance to escape a dull life and to experience true love. But she discovers that little in her marriage to the dutiful and sensible Edward meets her expectations. And as passion dies, she finds herself trapped in a loveless, oppressive marriage.
A young woman, carried away by passion, sees a chance to escape a dull life and to experience true love. But she discovers that little in her marriage to the dutiful and sensible Edward meets her expectations. And as passion dies, she finds herself trapped in a loveless, oppressive marriage.
A young woman, carried away by passion, sees a chance to escape a dull life and to experience true love. But she discovers that little in her marriage to the dutiful and sensible Edward meets her expectations. And as passion dies, she finds herself trapped in a loveless, oppressive marriage.
Philip Carey is an orphan, reared by his aunt and uncle, handicapped by his club foot. When he reaches the age of eighteen, he sets out in the worldвЂfirst to study at Heidelberg, then to try an accounting job, then trying to launch an artistic career. Finally he returns to London to train as a doctor, and meets Mildred, a young woman with whom he becomes obsessed. He finally...
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham,' wrote Gore Vidal. 'He was always so entirely there.' Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip...
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham,' wrote Gore Vidal. 'He was always so entirely there.' Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip...
First published 1915 This novel deals with the life of its main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned and brought up by his pious uncle. Taking the form of a bildungsroman, Maugham traces the protagonist's travels to Germany, Paris, and London while exploring his intellectual and emotional development and later, in the London period, his destructive...
German Harry. The Three Fat Women of Antibes. The Alien Corn. The Man with the Scar. The Closed Shop. The Bum. The Dream. The Colonel's Lady. Lord Mountdrago. The Social Sense. The Verger. The Taipan. A Friend in Need. The Door of Opportunity. The Facts of Life. Gigolo and Gigolette. The Unconquered. The Escape. Mr Know-All.
German Harry. The Three Fat Women of Antibes. The Alien Corn. The Man with the Scar. The Closed Shop. The Bum. The Dream. The Colonel's Lady. Lord Mountdrago. The Social Sense. The Verger. The Taipan. A Friend in Need. The Door of Opportunity. The Facts of Life. Gigolo and Gigolette. The Unconquered. The Escape. Mr Know-All.
German Harry. The Three Fat Women of Antibes. The Alien Corn. The Man with the Scar. The Closed Shop. The Bum. The Dream. The Colonel's Lady. Lord Mountdrago. The Social Sense. The Verger. The Taipan. A Friend in Need. The Door of Opportunity. The Facts of Life. Gigolo and Gigolette. The Unconquered. The Escape. Mr Know-All.
William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was one of the most significant travel writers of the inter-war years. There are many biographical details in his stories and characters; he avoids verbose sentimentality, favouring spare yet vivid, often cynical prose. No matter how splendid and likable the character appears in the...
London, Heinemann\Octopus, 1988. The book includes 65 short stories by W. S. Maugham (The Fall of Edward Barnard, Rain, Honololu). Rain. The Fall of Edward Barnard. Honolulu. The Ant and the Grasshopper. The Pool. Mackintosh. The Three Fat Women of Antibes. The Facts of Life. Gigolo and Gigolette. The Voice of the Turtle. The Unconquered. The Escape. Mr Know-All. The Romantic...
A short story. At first, the Colonel thinks nothing of his wife’s poems, treating her work with indifference. But, when Eva’s poems turn out to be quite a success both in bookstores and in the eyes of the literary critiques, he pays greater attention to her written words. It so transpires that the author describes a long lost clandestine relationship with a younger man.
New York: Doubleday, 1937. Rain. Red. The Letter. Before the Party. The Outstation. The Round Dozen. The Hairless Mexican. Giulia Lazzari. Mr. Harrington’s Washing. The Human Element. The Alien Corn. The Vessel of Wrath. The Door of Opportunity. Neil MacAdam. Louise. The Closed Shop. The Promise. A string of Beads. The Bum. Straight Flush. The Verger. The Wash Tub. The Social...
Five years change a man, and when they have been spent in the bush fighting Boers, the changes are profound. So when Jamie Parson comes home with captain's pips and a Victoria Cross, he is no longer the boy he was. But not to his parents and Mary, his sweetheart.they expect him to fit in. Jamie can't, and shortly breaks off with Mary. Happiness remains a shadow, illusive as the...
Five years change a man, and when they have been spent in the bush fighting Boers, the changes are profound. So when Jamie Parson comes home with captain's pips and a Victoria Cross, he is no longer the boy he was. But not to his parents and Mary, his sweetheart.they expect him to fit in. Jamie can't, and shortly breaks off with Mary. Happiness remains a shadow, illusive as the...
Five years change a man, and when they have been spent in the bush fighting Boers, the changes are profound. So when Jamie Parson comes home with captain's pips and a Victoria Cross, he is no longer the boy he was. But not to his parents and Mary, his sweetheart.they expect him to fit in. Jamie can't, and shortly breaks off with Mary. Happiness remains a shadow, illusive as the...
William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was one of the most significant travel writers of the inter-war years. The Luncheon (1924). +analysis
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. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in...
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. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in...
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. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in...
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged English stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to...
The Moon and Sixpence is a short novel of 1919 by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to...
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged English stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to...
(Somerset Maugham. Painted Curtain / Patterned Cover) 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...
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe...
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe...
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe...
Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those 'subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life', Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It is...
One was called Mrs. Richman and she was a widow. The second was called Mrs. Sutclif f e; she was American and she had divorced two husbands. The third was called Miss Hickson and she was a spinster. They were all in the comfortable forties and they were all well off. Mrs. Sutcliffe had the odd first name of Arrow- When she was young and slender she had liked it well enough. It...
New York: Doubleday, 1953. Woman of Fifty. The Man with the Scar. The Bum. The Closed Shop. An Official Position. A Man with a Conscience. French Joe. German Harry. The Four Dutchmen. The End of the Flight. Flotsam and Jetsam. 8A Casual Affair. Mr. Know-All. Straight Flush. The Portrait of a Gentleman. Raw Material. A Friend in Need. The Dream. The Taipan. The Consul. Mirage....
Middle-aged woman, a star of the London theatre, beautiful, fulfilled. But she thinks that something is missing in her life and falls in love with a very young guy, who is mesmerized by her fame. Later the young lover meets a girl of his age and falls in love with her, leaving behind his older paramour. The story is as old as this world. What makes it so different from other...
Middle-aged woman, a star of the London theatre, beautiful, fulfilled. But she thinks that something is missing in her life and falls in love with a very young guy, who is mesmerized by her fame. Later the young lover meets a girl of his age and falls in love with her, leaving behind his older paramour. The story is as old as this world. What makes it so different from other...
In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting. It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until...
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband, less disciplined about her behaviour. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled by his persistence — and at last wildly but dangerously in love…...
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband, less disciplined about her behaviour. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled by his persistence — and at last wildly but dangerously in love…...
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband, less disciplined about her behaviour. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled by his persistence — and at last wildly but dangerously in love…...
A wealthy young English woman finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger. And suddenly, her life is utterly,...
A wealthy young English woman finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger. And suddenly, her life is utterly,...
A wealthy young English woman finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger. And suddenly, her life is utterly,...
In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a...
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