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Orientations by W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 Maugham, 2010-07-28
Of human bondage by Maugham W Somerset (William Somerset) 1874-1965, 1915
On a Chinese screen. by W. Somerset Maugham. by Maugham. W. Somerset. (William Somerset). 1874-1965., 1922-01-01
Andalusia. sketches and impressions. by W. Somerset Maugham by Maugham. W. Somerset (William Somerset). 1874-1965., 1920-01-01
The explorer. by William Somerset Maugham . by Maugham. W. Somerset (William Somerset). 1874-1965., 1908-01-01
A man of honour. a play in four acts. by Maugham. W. Somerset (William Somerset). 1874-1965., 1903-01-01
The circle. a comedy in three acts. by Maugham. W. Somerset (William Somerset). 1874-1965., 1921-01-01
The land of promise, a comedy in four acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 Maugham, 2009-10-26
The making of a saint. Illustrated by Gilbert James. by Maugham. W. Somerset (William Somerset). 1874-1965., 1898-01-01
The unknown, a play in three acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 Maugham, 2009-10-26
The Great Exotic Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham, 2001-01-30
Maugham: A Biography by Ted Morgan, W. Somerset Maugham, 1984-04
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham, 2001-03-13
A Writer's Notebook (Vintage International) by W. Somerset Maugham, 2009-12-01

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Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham . World Traveler, Famed Storyteller. By Craig Showalter. Caxtonian, September 1997. September 1997 marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, Liza of Lambeth. Embassy in Paris in 1874he was destined to become The Two Worlds of Somerset Maugham(1965), makes interesting reading
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Extractions: Caxtonian , September 1997 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 acclaimeven notorietysufficient, in fact, for Maugham to abandon his medical career to become a full-time writer. A year after his publishing debut, he left London for Capri in Italy, beginning a lifelong pattern of travel and story-telling that became the Maugham persona for millions of readers. Over the next 60 years, he became one of the most successful writers of all time. When Maugham was bornin the British Embassy in Paris in 1874he was destined to become a lawyer. His father and grandfather had been prominent attorneys, and his oldest brother went on to become England's Lord Chancellor. However, Maugham had a severe stammer, which left him afraid to speak; so there were no plans for him to following the family tradition. Furthermore, he was orphaned by the age of 10 and was sent to England to be raised by an uncle, a clergyman. These circumstances led the young Maugham to be shy and withdrawn; consequently he became an observer rather than an active participant, but he was able to turn this to his advantage as a writer. The unhappiness and anxiety of his early life were recounted in his autobiographical novel
W. Somerset Maugham -- Encyclopædia Britannica
, Maugham, W. Somerset (18741965). While studying to be a physician,Somerset Maugham wrote his first novel, Liza of Lambeth .
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - The Quotations Page
Quotations by Author. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 1965) English dramatist novelistmore author details. Showing quotations 1 to 10 of 36 total, Next Page - .
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W. Somerset Maugham: A Who2 Profile
W. Somerset Maugham. . Author / Playwright 25 January 1874. Birthplace Paris, France. Death 16 December 1965
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Extractions: W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Author / Playwright Name at birth: William Somerset Maugham Maugham trained to be a doctor and his experiences as an intern in the London slums led him to write Liza of Lambeth (1897). The novel was a success and Maugham quickly traded the surgeon's knife for the writer's pen. He became one of the most successful writers of the early 20th century; in 1908 he had four plays running simultaneously in London. His semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage was published in 1915 and remains his most famous book. In later years Maugham became known as a master of the short story. He travelled extensively and based many of his tales in exotic locales, particularly the South Seas.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 1965) - More quotations on Death. People ask forcriticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
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Internet Broadway Database: W. Somerset Maugham Credits On Broadway
Official Broadway credits for W. Somerset Maugham, biographical information and other related facts here. W. Somerset Maugham( b. Jan 25, 1874 Paris, FRANCE d. Dec 16, 1965 Nice, FRANCE ) Male
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William Somerset Maugham
Translate this page Email zurück zur Homepage eine Stufe zurück, William Somerset Maugham 25.1.1874Paris 16.12.1965 Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (französische Riviera).
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Extractions: Essays, Memoiren vom 12.1.1962 * 25.1.1874 Paris; Sohn wohlhabender Eltern, lebte in Paris zehn Jahre. Nach dem Tod seiner Eltern zog er nach England und besuchte The King's School, Canterbury, und studierte in Oxford, Heidelberg und London Medizin. Erste Berufsjahre am St.Thomas's Hospital, London. Der Erfolg seines ersten Buches Liza of Lambeth
William Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham The Door of Opportunity .
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Extractions: Reclams Literatur Kalender 1962 , S. 120-126 Bei Amazon nachschauen Englische Short Stories von Thomas Hardy bis Graham Swift. Raimund Borgmeier, Hg. Ditzingen: Reclam, 1999. 81-92. Taschenbuch, 296 Seiten Marko Martin: "William Somerset Maugham: Die halbe Wahrheit. Keine Autobiographie". Anfang Links W(illiam) Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
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Maugham. Next 8. Anyone who hates children and dogs can t be allbad. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965). At a dinner party one
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Itsa funny thing about life If you refuse to accept anything but thebest, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
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BrothersJudd.com - Review Of W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon And Sixpence
The Fall of Edward Bernard W. Somerset Maugham s Stories and Books on Film (IntelligentsiaNetwork.com)-Maugham, W. Somerset 1874 - 1965 (EducETH) -Literary
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Extractions: This is one of those books that I find particularly hard to assess. On the one hand, it is eminently, even compulsively, readable. On the other, it is animated by ideas that range from the merely silly to the truly destructive. Maugham announces early on his view of art: ...art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. and the artist: To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. In the first place, the view of art, though wholly consistent with modern understanding, is precisely wrong. Great art is not fundamentally emotional, especially not an expression of the artist's emotions. It is instead intellectual, and what makes it great is that the ideas that it presents are universal and evoke universal emotions. What Maugham is praising is the subjective and the personal in art, that which requires either a visceral reaction devoid of thought or a knowledge of the artist's mood at the time he was working theory or an understanding of the theory he labored under. Tom Wolfe, in his twin works The Painted Word From Bauhaus to Our House (1981)(read Orrin's review ) has done a better job than I ever could of demonstrating that this trend in Modern Art has lead to a point where the artwork itself is superfluous, what matters most is the theory. Similarly, Maugham's attitude seems to be that the artist's personality is more important that the work he produces. It is a short line from this idea to the wretched excesses of artists like Jackson Pollack to the famous for fame's sake nature of someone like Andy Warhol. These people no longer produce Art; they produce their own personalities, then the glitterati and the critics buy their work and inflate it into "art." Along the way they create a truly disturbed cycle of dependency which requires the artist to demonstrate his genius by increasingly aberrant behavior and the patron to demonstrate his appreciation by tolerating or even encouraging that behavior.
Maugham, William Somerset. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
Maugham, William Somerset.
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The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language FourthEdition. 2000. Maugham, W(illiam) Somerset. DATES 18741965.
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Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference American Heritage Dictionary maudlin ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
Espionage - Spy - Maugham, W. (William) Somerset
W(illiam). Somerset Maugham. British agent in World War I (1874 1965). Brtish writer Sommerset Maugham, who admired the honesty
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Extractions: Brtish writer Sommerset Maugham , who admired the honesty of the working people but who sought the luxury of the rich, served as a spy for England during World War I, and a reluctant one, at that. Planning to become a physician, Maugham worked as an intern while reading onmnivorously. He kept a "writer's notebook," about what he termed "life in the raw," particularly in the slums of Lambeth where he worked briefly as an obstetric clerk. That career was abandoned when, in 1897, Maugham published a very successful novel. Liza of Lambeth , a book he wrote more for his own amusement than with any thoughts of enriching himself. It accurately and sympathetically portrayed "the low life" of Lambeth, drawn from his own experiences, and was, as the French term it, a success de Scandal . Riches flowed from this work, so much so that Maugham decided on a full-time writing career. He did not write successful novels but well-received plays and also short stories. In 1915, Maugham published what was later heralded as his masterpiece (and would eventually sell more than 10 million copies
W Somerset Maugham Bibliography
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Extractions: William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He spent some time at St. Thomas's Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. 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. His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965.
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To the lobby of the Internet Public Library. Online Literary CriticismCollection. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 1965). Nationality British,
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Read W. Somerset Maugham Books Online - The Literature Page
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 1965). English dramatist novelist. We have the followingworks by W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage, (fiction), 1915, 798 pages.
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From this site you can download the works of W(illiam) Somerset Maugham (1874 1965 British) in Adobe s ® Acrobat ® Portable Document File format.
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The Lotus Eater By W. Somerset Maugham
Logo Link to Home Page, Short Story Classics. W. Somerset Maugham1874-1965. The Lotus Eater. by W. Somerset Maugham. Most people, the
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Extractions: W. Somerset Maugham The Lotus Eater by W. Somerset Maugham Most people, the vast majority in fact, lead the lives that circumstances have thrust upon them, and though some repine, looking upon themselves as round pegs in square holes, and think that if things had been different they might have made a much better showing, the greater part accept their lot, if not with serenity, at all events with resignation. They are like train-cars travelling forever on the selfsame rails. They go backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, inevitably, till they can go no longer and then are sold as scrap-iron. It is not often that you find a man who has boldly taken the course of his life into his own hands. When you do, it is worth while having a good look at him. That was why I was curious to meet Thomas Wilson. It was an interesting and a bold thing he had done. Of course the end was not yet and until the experiment was concluded it was impossible to call it successful. But from what I had heard it seemed he must be an odd sort of fellow and I thought I should like to know him. I had been told he was reserved, but I had a notion that with patience and tact I could persuade him to confide in me. I wanted to hear the facts from his own lips. People exaggerate, they love to romanticize, and I was quite prepared to discover that his story was not nearly so singular as I had been led to believe. And this impression was confirmed when at last I made his acquaintance. It was on the Piazza in Capri, where I was spending the month of August at a friend`s villa, and a little before sunset, when most of the inhabitants, native and foreign, gather together to chat with their friends in the cool of the evening. There is a terrace that overlooks the Bay of Naples, and when the sun sinks slowly into the sea the island of Ischia is silhouetted against a blaze of splendour. It is one of the most lovely sights in the world. I was standing there with my friend and host watching it, when suddenly he said:
Rain By W. Somerset Maugham
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Extractions: W. Somerset Maugham Rain by W. Somerset Maugham Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste. Their chief tie was the disapproval they shared of the men who spent their days and nights in the smoking-room playing poker or bridge and drinking. Mrs. Macphail was not a little flattered to think that she and her husband were the only people on board with whom the Davidsons were willing to associate, and even the doctor, shy but no fool, half unconsciously acknowledged the compliment. It was only because he was of an argumentative mind that in their cabin at night he permitted himself to carp. "Mrs. Davidson was saying she didn`t know how they`d have got through the journey if it hadn`t been for us," said Mrs. Macphail, as she neatly brushed out her transformation. "She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know." "I shouldn`t have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills." "It`s not frills. I quite understand what she means. It wouldn`t have been very nice for the Davidsons to have to mix with all that rough lot in the smoking-room."

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