Maugham: 133 books

Médecin de formation, grand voyageur et agent secret, Somerset Maugham mit à profit ses diverses expériences pour en tirer la matière de son oeuvre d'écrivain. Raymond Chandler et George Orwell ont dit tout haut l'admiration qu'ils vouaient à ce formidable raconteur d'histoires. Ses très nombreuses...

" Conteur hors pair, Somerset Maugham a poussé le genre de la nouvelle jusqu'à la perfection. " Le Monde Dans la nouvelle-titre de ce recueil, on croise le chemin de quatre marins qui parcourent les mers du Pacifique et dont la solide amitié fait l'admiration de tous, jusqu'à l'arrivée...

" De mémoire, nous pouvons tous citer une palanquée de grands romanciers ; pour ce qui est des nouvellistes, en revanche, c'est plus compliqué, ils se comptent (au mieux) sur les doigts d'une main. William Somerset Maugham est de cette famille précieuse, et il en est même un peu le patron....

Somerset Maugham a démontré, avant Ian Fleming et John Le Carré, que la littérature et l'espionnage pouvaient faire excellent ménage. Avec ce volume de nouvelles, on entre de plain-pied dans la biographie du grand écrivain britannique. Car Mr Ashenden n'est autre que l'auteur lui-même. " Ce...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning...

This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de:...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged by authors' last names: Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] Beauty And The Beast [Barbot de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne] The Law [Frédéric Bastiat] Cabin Fever [B. M. Bower] Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler]...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Hero (The Classic Unabridged Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers...

A historical novel of Renaissance Italy. According to Wikipedia: " William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s."

Ashenden: Or the British Agent is a 1928 collection of loosely linked stories by W. Somerset Maugham. It is partly based on the author's experience as a member of British Intelligence in Europe during the First World War. (Wikipedia)

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great...

Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere...

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes....

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   While stranded waiting for their ship to be released from quarantine, Dr. and Mrs. Macphail must share lodging with the insufferable Davidsons—self-righteous and over-zealous missionaries who also happen to be the only polite company on the god-forsaken...