W. Somerset Maugham was one the twentieth century’s most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer. He was born in Paris but grew up in England and served as a secret agent for the British during World War I. He wrote many novels, including the classics Of Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale, Christmas Holiday, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, and Up at the Villa.
“[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius.” –Theodore Dreiser
“[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost
the equal of imagination itself.” –The Sunday Times (London)
“It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is
honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. .
. . He was always so entirely there.” –Gore Vidal
“Maugham remains the consummate craftsman. . . . [His writing is]
so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully
written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last.”
–Saturday Review of Literature
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