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Ten Novels and Their Authors by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction
Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it. Written by a master of fiction, "Ten Novels and Thei ...Show more
The Creative Impulse and Other Stories by W.Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Readers
Maugham, the quintessential observer of human behaviour, tells the stories of : The Creative Impulse, The Round Dozen and Jane.
The Gentleman In The Parlour by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction
Best Known for his novels and plays, Somerset Maugham also produced the most delightfully engaging and absorbing non-fiction, of which The Gentleman in the Parlour is a prime example. First published in 1935 it is the account of a journey the author took from Rangoon to Haiphong. Whether by river to Man ...Show more
The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Classics
This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers. From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago Pago, in Samoa or Malaya or on a Tahitian tropical isle, the men and women in this collecti ...Show more
The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look forward to an idyllic life together, until they encounter the mesmerising and repulsive Oliver Haddo.
The Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
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 him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by ...Show more
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Classics
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset MaughamBased on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create ...Show more
The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Category: Classic | Series: The Collected Edition of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction | 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