W Somerset Maugham: 81 books

Book cover of Una donna di mondo

Una donna di mondo

e altri racconti

by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2014

Maugham era un formidabile conoscitore della vita mondana – e di quella sua provincia che è la vita letteraria. Da entrambe trasse materiali preziosi e inesauribili per i suoi racconti, come dimostrano quelli qui riuniti. Di entrambe seppe riconoscere, con lucidità stupefacente, che esigevano...
Book cover of Lo spirito errabondo
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 11, 2018

Maugham fu non solo un maestro del romanzo e del racconto, ma un saggista estroso, che talvolta – e vorremmo fosse accaduto più spesso – si abbandonava alla vena vagabonda del suo umore, così incontrando i soggetti più disparati: da un pittore come Zurbarán a un grande filosofo politico come...
Book cover of Cakes and Ale
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012

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...
Book cover of On a Chinese Screen
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

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....
Book cover of The Trembling of a Leaf (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011

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. 
Book cover of Three Early Novels (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Three Early Novels (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Liza of Lambeth, Mrs Craddock, The Magician

by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

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...
Book cover of Il velo dipinto
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 29, 2013

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...
Book cover of Three Early Novels (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Three Early Novels (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Liza of Lambeth, Mrs Craddock, The Magician

by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

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...
Book cover of La lettera
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2014

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...
Book cover of Storie ciniche
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2014

«Deve essere un mio difetto, ma i peccati altrui non mi scandalizzano – sempre che non mi riguardino personalmente». La leggendaria sprezzatura di Maugham pervade tutti i racconti di questa raccolta, popolata di personaggi tanto più veri in quanto tratti dalla sua vita multiforme di medico, scrittore,...
Book cover of In villa
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 9, 2013

Quando si parla di gemme letterarie, di macchine narrative i cui meccanismi funzionano come gli ingranaggi di un orologio, di storie che riescono a ospitare, in poche decine di pagine, il respiro della letteratura, si allude a qualcosa che è realmente esistito – a quell’altissimo artigianato...
Book cover of Acque morte
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Un medico drogato, radiato dall’Albo, a suo agio «solo nella futilità»: questo il protagonista di “Acque morte”, l’ambiguo personaggio cui Maugham affida il compito di guidare, fingendo di assistervi impassibile, una vicenda di amore, di fuga e di morte che lascia spossati come una febbre tropicale.
Book cover of The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland is an English stock broker, who leaves everything behind him in his middle age to live in defiant squalor in Paris as an artist. His genius is eventually recognized by a Dutch painter.
Book cover of The Painted Veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but...
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