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W Somerset Maugham


(William Somerset Maugham)
UK flag (1874 - 1965)
Uncle of Robin Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He spent some time at St. Thomas's Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915 and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Liza of Lambeth (1897)
   Mrs Craddock (1902)
   The Merry Go Round (1904)
   The Explorer (1907)
   The Magician (1908)
   Of Human Bondage (1915)
   The Moon and the Sixpence (1919)
   The Painted Veil (1925)
   Ashenden (1928)
   Cakes and Ale (1930)
   The Narrow Corner (1932)
   Christmas Holiday (1939)
   Up at the Villa (1941)
   The Razor's Edge (1944)
   Then and Now (1946)
   Theatre (1947)
   Catalina (1948)
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Collections
   The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)
   The Casuarina Tree (1928)
   Ah King (1933)
   Cosmopolitans (1936)
   The Mixture as Before (1940)
   Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
   Here and There (1948)
   Quartet (1948)
   Trio (1950)
   The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (1951)
   Encore (1951)
   Collected Short Stories (1969)
   Collected Stories (2004)
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Anthologies containing stories by W Somerset Maugham
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Love Duet (2013)
And Other Curious Stories About Music
edited by
Christopher Ondaatje
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The Book of Spies (2003)
An Anthology of Literary Espionage
edited by
Alan Furst

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