Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvigoration of this neglected 20th century master
William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until
he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at
Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital
with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first
novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to
literature. 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. At the same
time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being
consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the
publication of several short story collections. His other works
include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical
The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook.
In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived
there until his death in 1965
I picked it up and couldn't put it down.
*Mail on Sunday*
Magnificent
*Express*
From an era that produced George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and John
Galsworthy, Maugham is the great survivor
*Economist*
If anyone deserves resuscitation, he does... As a teenager, I read
and reread my sister's long shelf of Maughams. What I enjoyed was
their atmosphere: the brooding, sensual, sinister mood of exotic
locations, where his characters seemed always on the verge of mania
and where no-one behaved nearly so well as they were expected
to
*Herald*
I picked it up and couldn't put it down. -- Alexander McCall Smith
* Mail on Sunday *
Magnificent * Express *
From an era that produced George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and John
Galsworthy, Maugham is the great survivor * Economist *
If anyone deserves resuscitation, he does... As a teenager, I read
and reread my sister's long shelf of Maughams. What I enjoyed was
their atmosphere: the brooding, sensual, sinister mood of exotic
locations, where his characters seemed always on the verge of mania
and where no-one behaved nearly so well as they were expected to --
Rosemary Goring * Herald *
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