In The Summing Up, published in 1938 when he was sixty-four years old, Somerset Maugham inveighed against literary obscurity and extolled the virtue of clarity (his own peculiar forte). His sentiments ...
W. Somerset Maugham ... William Somerset Maugham[n 2] CH (/ mɔːm / MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) [n 1] was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university.
W. Somerset Maugham was an English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work is noted for its clear unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human nature. His novels include Of Human Bondage (1915) and The Razor’s Edge (1944).
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William Somerset Maugham, CH ( – ) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and although he did not receive the same critical acclaim as did his modernist contemporaries with their more experimental prose styles, he was reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. [1 ...
September 1997 marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of W. Somerset Maugham’s first novel, Liza of Lambeth. Written during his final year of medical school, the realistic novel draws upon his experiences in treating patients from the Lambeth slums of London. The book achieved modest public acclaim—even notoriety—sufficient, in fact, for Maugham to abandon his medical career to ...
The Hero W. Somerset Maugham 3281 downloads The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 2582 downloads The Explorer W. Somerset Maugham 2537 downloads Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1925 downloads The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham 1471 downloads The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands W. Somerset Maugham 1412 ...
W. Somerset Maugham. Writer: Quartet. Popular British novelist, playwright, short-story writer and the highest-paid author in the world in the 1930s, Somerset Maugham graduated in 1897 from St. Thomas' Medical School and qualified as a doctor, but abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and plays.
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English playwright and author wrote Of Human Bondage (1915); He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of reality. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ...
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he ...
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