Books by W Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham was one of the twentieth century's most accomplished storytellers, celebrated for his coolly observant prose and subtle wit. Drawing on his experiences as a doctor, traveller, and sometime secret agent, he captured human frailty and desire with an unsparing yet compassionate eye. His novels and short stories-spanning from Edwardian drawing rooms to remote colonial outposts-combine elegant craftsmanship with a keen understanding of moral ambiguity.

Readers continue to be drawn to Maugham's lucid style and his gift for narrative economy. Whether exploring the conflict between duty and passion or the quiet tragedies of ordinary lives, his writing remains timeless in its insight and sophistication. A cornerstone of modern English literature, Maugham's work offers both a mirror to his age and a lasting reflection on the complexities of human nature.

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  • Orchid Press Publishing Limited The Gentleman in the Parlour

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  • Culturea The Magician

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  • The Painted Veil

    Vintage Publishing The Painted Veil

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    Book Synopsis'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. Trade ReviewReveals many of Maugham's strengths: an understanding of women, meticulous craftsmanship and raw emotion' * Daily Mail *A work of art * Spectator *An expert craftsman... His style is sharp, quick, subdued, casual * New York Times *

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Notizbuch eines Schriftstellers

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Gesammelte Erzhlungen 12 Ost und West Der Rest

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    Diogenes Verlag AG Silbermond und Kupfermnze

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Theater Ein SchauspielerRoman

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Oben in der Villa

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Ashenden oder Der britische Geheimagent

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG,Switzerland Der Bunte Schleier

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Honolulu und andere Erzhlungen

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Fuspuren im Dschungel und andere Erzhlungen

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Der Bchersack und andere Erzhlungen

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Die Winterkreuzfahrt und andere Erzhlungen

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG W Somerset Maugham Leben und Werk

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  • Diogenes Verlag AG Der Menschen Hörigkeit

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  • Igela Argitaletxea Sei istorio

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  • Al filo de la navaja

    Debolsillo Al filo de la navaja

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  • Collected Short Stories Volume 1

    Penguin Putnam Inc Collected Short Stories Volume 1

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  • Random House USA Inc Up at the Villa

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    Book SynopsisNow a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects).In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days.  But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger.  And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered.For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion.  Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings.  Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.

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  • Cakes and Ale

    Random House USA Inc Cakes and Ale

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    Book SynopsisCakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield''s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist''s voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image.  Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

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  • Of Human Bondage

    Random House USA Inc Of Human Bondage

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  • Of Human Bondage

    Random House USA Inc Of Human Bondage

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  • Random House USA Inc The Painted Veil

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  • Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham

    Random House USA Inc Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham

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  • Casimiro Libros Zurbarn

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