William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays. Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way. During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
Series
Books
The Narrow Corner
1932
W. Somerset Maugham
Collected Works
2010
The Great Exotic Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham
2000
Points of View
1958
The Vagrant Mood
1952
Mr. Know-All
1924
The Skeptical Romancer
Selected Travel Writing
2009
The Merry-Go-Round
1904
Short Stories
1985
The Outstation
2023
Шедьоври на разказа с неочакван край - Т. I
2017
The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham
2014
Before the Party
1922
The Hero
1901
The Razor's Edge
1944
Honolulu
1974
Collected Short Stories
Volume 4
1952
Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches)
2014
Rain and Other South Sea Stories
1921
65 Short Stories
1976
The Appointment in Samarra
1993
Princess September and the Nightingale
1939
Somerset Maugham Selected Plays
1976
Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular
1931
A Traveller in Romance
Uncollected Writings 1901 - 1964
1984
Друзья познаются в беде
1979
East of Suez
A Play in Seven Scenes
1922
Collected Short Stories
Volume 3
1951
The Taipan
2023
30 Great Short Stories
1976
Honolulu
Somerset Maugham's Classic Short Story
2018
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
Home and Beauty
1923
More Far Eastern Tales
1998
Cosmopolitans
1936
The Vessel of Wrath
2023
A Marriage of Convenience and Other Stories
1995
The Beachcomber
2023
Cakes and Ale, The Painted Veil, Liza of Lambeth, Razor's Edge, Theatre, The Moon and Sixpence
1979
Ten by Maugham
2000
Best Short Stories
2017
Christmas Holiday
1939
Books and You
1940
Rain
1921
La carta
1926
Quartet
1948
Three Early Novels
Liza of Lambeth, Mrs Craddock, the Magician
2005
Of Human Bondage Vol 1
1915
Collected Stories
1921
Daisy
2013
The sacred flame
1948
The Hour Before the Dawn
1942
Great novelists and their novels,
Essays on the ten greatest novels of the world and the men and women who wrote them;
1948
The Magician
1908
A Writer's Notebook
1949
Collected Short Stories
Volume 2
1951
On A Chinese Screen
1922
Collected Short Stories
Volume 1
1951
Don Fernando
1935
Summing Up
1938
Creatures of Circumstance
1947
Maugham's Malaysian Stories
1969
The Lotus Eater
1935
Liza of Lambeth
1897
Ashenden
1927
The Explorer by W. Somerset Maugham, Fiction, Literary, Classics
1907
Luna i shest pensov
2022
W. Somerset Maugham
Four Short Stories
1970
Cakes and Ale and Twelve Short Stories
1930
The Happy Couple
2000
South Sea Stories of W. Somerset Maughm
2023
Our Betters
1923
Storie ciniche
2012
Lady Frederick
A Comedy in Three Acts
2000
The Constant Wife
1927
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Volume II
1934
Up at the Villa
1941
Then and Now
1946
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100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]
2017
Mr. Maugham Himself
1954
A Friend in Need
2023
An Official Position
2018
The gentleman in the parlour
1930
Far Eastern Tales
1921
The Complete Short Stories
Volume 1
1951
The Circle
A Comedy in Three Acts
1921
Here and There
1948
Mrs Craddock
1902
Theatre
1937
The Round Dozen
1939
Catalina
1948
The Moon and Sixpence
1919
Classic Stories of World War I
1989
The Bishop's Apron
1906
Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 1
2001
Of Human Bondage
1915
The Mixture As Before
1940
50 Greatest Short Stories
2015
The Painted Veil
1925
Cakes and Ale
1930
Landed Gentry
A Comedy in Four Acts
1910
For Services Rendered
1933
Ah King
1933
The Book-Bag
2023
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
1921
The Casuarina Tree
1926
The happy man stories
2008
The Best Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham
1957
The Force of Circumstance
2025
Seventeen lost stories
1969
W. Somerset Maugham
Five Novels
2006
