An ambitious novel by the formidable talent, Somerset Maugham
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 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. At the same time his fame
as a successful playwright and short story writer was being
consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the
publication of The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of
the South Sea Islands, in 1921, which was followed by seven more
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.
One of my favourite writers
*Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents...precision, tact,
irony and total absence of pomposity
*Spectator*
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