Maugham: 133 books

Not an autobiography nor a book of recollections, but the brilliant and provocative summing-up of the great author W. Somerset Maugham's views on life and art.

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 finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series...

This 1921 collection by Maugham contains what is perhaps his single most famous short story, "Rain," the tale of a South Seas missionary who becomes obsessed with a prostitute.  But there are other gems here, including "The Fall of Edward Barnard," in which the kernel of The Razor's Edge may be discerned. 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The three novels in this collection, Liza of Lambeth (1897), Mrs Craddock (1902), and The Magician (1908), had a lasting influence on the literary world. Their settings are various--ranging from the South London slums...

On a Chinese Screen is a travel bookmade of a series of short sketches Maugham made during a trip along the Yangtze River, and although ostensibly about China the book is equally focused on the various westerners he met during the trip and their struggles to accept or adapt to the cultural differences they encounter, which are often as enormous and as alienating as the country itself.

Che ragione poteva avere l’incantevole Kitty – occhi splendenti, capelli alla garçonne – per sposare il gelido e inamabile dottor Fane – batteriologo alle dipendenze del governo inglese – se non il puro panico? Panico, soprattutto, di fronte alla prospettiva di deludere la madre, implacabile...

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 ageing mother in the...

"The Land of The Blessed Virgin" Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia is a travelogue of Somerset Maugham's travels in Spain.

The three novels in this collection, Liza of Lambeth (1897), Mrs Craddock (1902), and The Magician (1908), had a lasting influence on the literary world. Their settings are various--ranging from the South London slums through the Kentish countryside to the British expatriate community in early twentieth-century...

A subtle, caustic and ironic story of a brilliant, intelligent actress who celebrates the "crisis of the middle life" with a novel with a beautiful young "predator"? "Vanity fair" of the stormy twenties? Or-a timeless fascinating book in which every reader finds something...

Né il marito, membro influente della colonia britannica di Singapore, né tanto meno l'avvocato pensano che sarà arduo far assolvere l'irreprensibile Leslie Crosbie dall'accusa di omicidio: lei si è solo difesa da un tentativo di stupro. Ma qualcosa non quadra, e un temibile teste ha in mano una...

"Caesar's Wife A Comedy in Three Acts" is a play that combines romance, intrigue, and profound insight into the human condition? Fans of top-notch dramatic writing will appreciate W. Somerset Maugham's Caesar's Wife, which explores an unusual love triangle between a distinguished, older dignitary, his personal secretary, and his much-younger wife.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Based on the life of French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence builds on a long tradition of European writing about the South Pacific as an exotic locale.  It also marks the transformation...