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Paperback Books by W. Somerset Maugham
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| Liza of Lambeth |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Somerset Maugham was a British novelist, short story writer and playwright. He was born in 1874 in Paris. During the 1930's his popularity soared and he became the highest paid author of his era. Maugham's father was a British lawyer working... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 2008 |
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| Publication Date: January 2008 |
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| Liza of Lambeth |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. By 1914 he was famous,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2008 |
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| The Magician |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. By 1914 he was famous,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2008 |
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| Moon and Sixpence |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. By 1914 he was famous,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2008 |
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| The Moon and Sixpence |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The Moon and Sixpence (1919) by William Somerset Maugham is the complex story of Charles Strickland, a man who abandons his family and his secure life as an English businessman to pursue an uncertain but meaningful existence as an artist,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 2007 |
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| The Magician |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married, to the delight of their friends and family. Then Oliver Haddo arrives on the scene. Fearsome, repulsive, he is a source of fascination for Margaret's single friend Susie. But it is Margaret who... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2007 |
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| Of Human Bondage |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Considered by many to be Maugham's masterpiece, 'Of Human Bondage' is the semi-autobiographical tale of Philip Carey, who like Maugham, is orphaned and brought up by his uncle. 'Of Human Bondage' is a 'bildungsroman' that traces the travels... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2007 |
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| Liza of Lambeth |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| It was the first Saturday afternoon in August; it had been broiling hot all day, with a cloudless sky, and the sun had been beating down on the houses, so that the top rooms were like ovens; but now with the approach of evening it was cooler,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2006 |
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| Publication Date: September 2006 |
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| The Magician |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married, to the delight of their friends and family. Then Oliver Haddo arrives on the scene. Fearsome, repulsive, he is a source of fascination for Margaret's single friend Susie. But it is Margaret who... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 2006 |
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| Publication Date: June 2006 |
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| The Moon and Sixpence |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Based on the life of Paul Gaugin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE chronicles the life of Charles Strickland, a middle-class stockbroker who flees from his London life and family, first to Paris and then to a distant Pacific island. The narrator of the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 2005 |
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| Publication Date: October 2005 |
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| The Explorer |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The sea was very calm. There was no ship in sight, and the seagulls were motionless upon its even greyness. The sky was dark with lowering clouds, but there was no wind. The line of the horizon was clear and delicate. The shingly beach, no... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 2005 |
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| The Moon And Sixpence |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The Moon and Sixpence<.I>, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham's reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 2005 |
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| The Painted Veil |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Kitty Fane has an affair, and when her husband, a bacteriologist, finds out, he forces her to go with him to a cholera epidemic in the hopes that she will contract the disease and die. Once she is surrounded by all the desolation and death,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2004 |
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| The Painted Veil |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Kitty Fane has an affair, and when her husband, a bacteriologist, finds out, he forces her to go with him to a cholera epidemic in the hopes that she will contract the disease and die. Once she is surrounded by all the desolation and death,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2004 |
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| The Razor's Edge |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Maugham traces the development of six friendships in Paris and London, evoking the sense of loss, despair, and unmoored personalities just after wartime. |
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| Publication Date: September 2003 |
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| Theatre |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2001 |
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| Cakes and Ale |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The bitter, witty novel about the business of writing and London literary society between the two World Wars focuses on the lives of a famous writer and his two contrasting wives. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. |
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| Publication Date: December 2000 |
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| Christmas Holiday |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid. It should have been a lark, but on his first night Charley meets a woman whose story will forever change his life.
For Lydia has seen tragedy. The... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2000 |
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| The Moon and Sixpence |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The Moon and Sixpence, originally published in 1919, is based on the life of the artist Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the life of the central character, Charles... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2000 |
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| The Moon and Sixpence |
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Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.
Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2000 |
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| Up at the Villa |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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Now 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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 2000 |
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| Of Human Bondage |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Philip Carey is an orphan, reared by his aunt and uncle, handicapped by his club foot. When he reaches the age of eighteen, he sets out in the world--first to study at Heidelberg, then to try an accounting job, then trying to launch an... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 1999 |
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| Of Human Bondage |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham,' wrote Gore Vidal. 'He was always so entirely there.'
Originally published in 1915, Of Human... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 1999 |
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| Publication Date: June 1993 |
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| Publication Date: March 1993 |
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| Publication Date: September 1992 |
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| Publication Date: September 1992 |
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| Publication Date: April 1992 |
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| Publication Date: March 1992 |
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| Of Human Bondage (Signet Classic) |
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| by W. Somerset Maugham |
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| A gorgeous weave, as interesting and valuable at the beginning as at the end....Compact of the experiences, the dreams, the hopes, the fears, the disillusionments, the ruptures, and the philosophisings of a strangely starved soul, it is a... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1991 |
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| Publication Date: June 1991 |
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| Publication Date: May 1977 |
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