The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, which begins ""Lift not the painted veil...
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This final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion...
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The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya,...
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In questo romanzo W. Somerset Maugham mette in scena, come sempre o quasi, se stesso, ma stavolta nella doppia veste di Strickland, un agente di cambio che per amore della pittura lascia...
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In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham- the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa- introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose...
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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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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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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...
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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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The final classic collection of stories...
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This third volume of Maugham's stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham's...
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W. Somerset Maugham's first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it...
Maugham's greatest popular novel tells the story of Larry Darrell, an attractive and enigmatic American who forsakes bourgeois society to live a life dedicated to the pursuit of...
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...
Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he...
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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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Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives;...
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Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her...
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham, " wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there. "...
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New editions of these Somerset Maugham novels, with attractive new covers...
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This collection of stories was first published in 1993 (Mandarin)...
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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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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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