Somerset Maugham: 130 books

Book cover of Honolulu e altri racconti
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 29, 2013

È impossibile, leggendo i superbi ‘racconti orientali’ qui raccolti, non finire irretiti negli scabri avamposti di un Impero britannico ormai presago della fine. Un mondo nostalgico e artificiale, in perenne contrappunto con una giungla evocata da rapidi tocchi eppure incombente e foriera di...
Book cover of Pioggia
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2013

Una striscia argentea di spiaggia, le rigogliose palme da cocco, le case d’erba dei samoani: un’oasi – o un’allucinazione. Cade una pioggia inesorabile, «animata da un’intima rabbia», e i turisti appena sbarcati si lasciano andare al suo ritmo. Fra loro un missionario, una cupa fiamma...
Book cover of Mrs Craddock
by William Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017

Set in the final years of the 19th century, Mrs Craddock is about a young and attractive woman of independent means who marries beneath her. As he had written about a subject that was considered daring at the time, Maugham had some difficulty finding a publisher. Completed in 1900, the novel was...
Book cover of Lo scheletro nell'armadio
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 21, 2013

Alle vedove dei grandi scrittori tocca spesso in sorte di trasformarsi in vestali, per mantenere la memoria del caro estinto al riparo da scandali e pettegolezzi. Non è mai un compito facile, e la seconda signora Driffield lo sa bene. Se poi al momento di individuare un agiografo affidabile la scelta...
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 On a Chinese Screen

On a Chinese Screen

Sketches of Life in China

by William Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018

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.
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...
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