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The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics
The Moon and Sixpence, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maughamas reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, ...Show more
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Dover Value Editions Ser.
This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. Charles Strickland, a stock broker in London, seems like a good, honest man. But one day, at the age of forty, he leaves his business, his wife, and his children and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospe ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 fiance Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate Am ...Show more
The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, this book is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
The Vagrant Mood: Six Essays by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature
"The Vagrant Mood" is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; and, from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of l ...Show more
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband. 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.
Vintage Classics: Points Of View by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature
Features essays ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story. This title presents the views and opinions of this eminent writer.