Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master
William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris
until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and
at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas'
Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of
his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him
over to literature. 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. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright
and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of
various plays and the publication of several short story
collections. His other works include travel books, essays,
criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A
Writer's Notebook.
In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived
there until his death in 1965
You will acknowledge Maugham as the Master * New Statesman *
[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius -- Theodore Dreiser
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