A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose...
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Introduced by the author, this is a collection of vignettes about the romantic as well as the brutal aspects of espionage...
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On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to...
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The final classic collection of stories...
A collection of essays on a variety of literary subjects, from Kant to Raymond Chandler and Burke to Augustus Hare. First published in 1952...
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This book includes an introduction by Paul Theroux. Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and...
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With an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare "Cakes and Ale" is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces...
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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel,...
Walter Fane, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong, discovers his beautiful but shallow wife, Kitty, is having an affair. His revenge is strange but terrible: Kitty must accompany...
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...
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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...
Set in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister...
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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...
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At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a cheerful disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's...
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Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as "Rain", "The Letter", "The Vessel...
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This collection of stories was first published in 1993 (Mandarin)...
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New editions of these Somerset Maugham novels, with attractive new covers...
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Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in thethe short story he reached the pinnacle of his artwas his true metier. These expertly...
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From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking...
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Maugham’s 1915 masterpiece—hailed by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time—is the coming-of-age story of a sensitive young man consumed by an unrequited passion...
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time§§"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of...
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