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A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature
From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating ...Show more
Catalina by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Crippled sixteen-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.
Collected Short Stories Volume 1 - W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser.
"This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abst ...Show more
Collected Short Stories, Volume 2 by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; 'The Man with the Scar', and notably the opening story 'The ...Show more
Collected Short Stories, Volume 4 by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice, the stories range from 'The Lotus Eater' in which a man has a vision of a life of bliss in ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham; Gore Vidal (Introduction by)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.
One of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece Of Human Bondage gives a harrowing depiction of unrequited love. Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to tr ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
Ten Novels and Their Authors by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature
Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it. Written by a master of fiction, "Ten Novels and Thei ...Show more
The Gentleman In The Parlour by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature
Best Known for his novels and plays, Somerset Maugham also produced the most delightfully engaging and absorbing non-fiction, of which The Gentleman in the Parlour is a prime example. First published in 1935 it is the account of a journey the author took from Rangoon to Haiphong. Whether by river to Man ...Show more
The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage classics
Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look forward to an idyllic life together, until they encounter the mesmerising and repulsive Oliver Haddo.
The Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage classics
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by ...Show more