Somerset Maugham: 130 books

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The world takes people very willingly at the estimate in which they hold themselves. With a fashionable bias for expression in a foreign tongue it calls modesty mauvaise honte; and the impudent are thought merely to have a proper opinion of their merit. But Ponsonby was really an imposing personage....

When her employer dies, leaving her penniless, Nora Marsh decides to make her home with her brother Edward (Johnston) in Canada. She cannot, however, get along with her sister-in-law Gertie and life becomes a hardship. The hired man Frank Taylor owns a farm of his own, but a storm has destroyed his...

The narrator and central figure is Filippo Brandolini. He tells the story of his young-adult life--romance and adventure. Filippo joins forces with friends Checco and Mateo to overthrow Giralomo Riario, who rules over and exploits the town of Forli. Giralomo falls; Checco and Mateo fall; ultimately,...

"The Explorer" is a story of the proud Allertons whose fortune has been squandered, and whose three-hundred-year estate Hamlyn's Purlieu stands to be lost to the family. Lucy and George Allerton, brother and sister, are resolved to overcome the mistakes of their father, Fred Allerton. A powerful exploration of relationships and familial bonds by a true master of the human psyche.

"The Circle" is a comedy in three acts. Young Lady Catherine is to leave her husband (and her son Arnold) in favour of her lover. 30 years later, young Elizabeth (Eleanor Boardman) is facing the same choice between her husband (the now grown Arnold, and lover. In the meantime, Arnold's mother Lady Catherine and lover Lord Porteous are coming to visit.

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A drawing-room at Lord Francis Etchingham’s house in Norfolk Street, Park Lane. An Adam room, with bright chintzes on the furniture, photographs on the chimney-piece and the piano, and a great many flowers. There is an archway at the back, leading into another drawing-room, and it is through this...

Example in this ebook   CHAPTER I All her life Miss Elizabeth Dwarris had been a sore trial to her relations. A woman of means, she ruled tyrannously over a large number of impecunious cousins, using her bank-balance like the scorpions of Rehoboam to chastise them, and,...

A drawing-room in O’Farrell’s house in John Street. It is very prettily but not extravagantly furnished. The O’Farrells are a young married couple of modest income. It is between six and seven in the evening. Peyton, a neat parlour-maid, opens the door and shows in Mr. Davenport Barlow. Barlow...

Quando Larry Durrell torna negli Stati Uniti dopo la Grande Guerra è un uomo segnato dalle atrocità cui ha assistito. Per reagire al trauma, trasforma la sua vita in una continua rincorsa: lavora in miniera, si imbarca come mozzo, parte per l’India alla ricerca dell’Illuminazione. Un’inquietudine che neppure la passione dell’incantevole Isabel sembra in grado di placare…

Dietro le drammatiche vicende di un pittore che abbandona l'Europa per Tahiti, è ben riconoscibile in questo romanzo la storia di Paul Gauguin. Quando il libro apparve, subito dopo la prima guerra mondiale, si trattava di una novità sconcertante, perché "l'artista come personaggio" aveva...

Julia Lambert, «la più grande attrice d’Inghilterra», come scrivono i giornali, sa decisamente irretire il suo pubblico: quello adorante che riempie le sale, quello che si lascia soggiogare da lei nella vita privata, e infine noi, che seguiamo sulla pagina questo suo trionfante monologo. Durante...