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| | W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although the latter part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper). | | | Quartet (1948) Maugham appears as himself in introduction. | | | Rain, in particular, which charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert the Pacific island prostitute Sadie Thompson, has kept its fame and been made into a movie several times. |
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| | Maugham was an English novelist, playwright and short–story writer. | | | Maugham was cut away from his companion for years. | | | In 1940, Maugham was forced to flee from France, to escape from the Nazis. |
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| | THE RAZOR'S EDGE |
| | Maugham, being familiar with but not as swept up in mysticism as the other writers, crosses paths a second time with my-to-be-mentor within the milieu, and immediately becomes aware of something "different," something he sensed in Paris, but couldn't put his finger on. | | | Apparently, even though Maugham listened intently to Darrell's story in Paris initially, perhaps because he was a westerner and everything being so out of context and all, Maugham was not fully able to grasp what Darrell was saying about his Enlightenment experience until AFTER he himself actually came within the presence of the Maharshi. | | | I think it is probable my mentor recognized Maugham for who he was, a playwright and author of some renown, stepped up to his table, and was politely rebuffed, not only because Maugham did not know him, but also in a big part it would seem, because of his scruffy appearance. |
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| | The officer suggested to Maugham, that with his knowledge of German and French and his profession as a writer, which would provide a good cover for activities, he should become a secret agent. | | | Maugham took her to Rome to give birth. | | | In May of 1916, following Syrie's divorce from Sir Henry, Maugham and she were married. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/indie/anna_jones1/wsm_biog.html
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| | Knitting Circle Somerset Maugham |
| | A defence of Syrie Maugham was made by Beverley Nichols in his short book A Case of Human Bondage in 1966. | | | Somerset Maugham returned to the Mauresque where he lived with Alan Searle. | | | Summary: "This reassessment of Somerset Maugham's life reveals a different man from the one of popular thought. |
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| | W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Biography |
| | Maugham's English is clear and lucid and this makes his books easy to come to terms with. | | | The remote locations of the quietly magnificent yet decaying British Empire offered him beautiful cavasses on which to write his stories and plays. | | | In France he wrote what many regard as his satirical masterpiece Cakes and Ale, a literary biography within a novel that examined the private sin that accompanies public success. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/indie/anna_jones1/maugham.html
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| | MTV.com - Movies - W. Somerset Maugham |
| | Maugham refused to allow the book to be published in England, but as the newest work of a major author, it was snapped up in America and the screen rights were purchased by Paramount Pictures. | | | In 1915, one of Maugham's most enduring works, the novel Of Human Bondage, was published; the book, inspired by Maugham's memories of his own anxieties as a youth, went on to be filmed three times. | | | Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) brought Rita Hayworth in a new adaptation of Rain, Robert Newton starred in a remake of The Beachcomber (1954), and Three Cases of Murder (1955) marked another successful anthology film based on Maugham's short works. |
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http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/153623/bio.jhtml
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| | W. Somerset Maugham |
| | Maugham became a witty satirist of the post-colonial world and wrote over thirty plays, mainly light satiric comedies. | | | Somerset Maugham: an annotated bibliography of writings about him. | | | A companion to the characters in the fiction and drama of W. Somerset Maugham. |
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| | UWA Library - William Riley Collection of W. Somerset Maugham |
| | The Maugham Collection is intended to attract research students in English literature, and to be of use to courses dealing with the 20th century novel, theatre studies, and post-colonial literature. | | | The Maugham Collection is related to the literature section of the HSS Library, and to the Theatre Collection. | | | Modern editions of all Maugham's major works plus duplicate copies of earlier editions are available in the HSS Library for circulation, but all other copies are held in the Maugham Collection. |
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http://www.library.uwa.edu.au/collection/maugham
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| | Maugham, W Somerset |
| | The Limits of Graciousness - A discussion of Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener and Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence from a Christian viewpoint. | | | Allreaders W. Somerset Maugham Spotlight - Detailed analysis of the plot, theme, setting and characters of his books, plus links to similar books. | | | Find Books By W Somerset Maugham - Buy used, new, rare and out-of-print books by W Somerset Maugham. |
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http://www.supercrawler.com/Arts/Literature/Authors/M/Maugham,_W_Somerset
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| | Amazon.com: Collected Short Stories, Volume 2 (20th Century Classics): Books |
| | As in his novels, Maugham has the ability to make the reader see what is not written. | | | Hard but touching, Maugham sees the world from afar, from the internal wisdom which lets him know that nothing is too bad and nothing is too good. | | | The first of four volumes of the collected short stories of Somerset Maugham is a glimpse of what is to come. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140185909?v=glance
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| | Maugham, William Somerset. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Maugham’s other famous novels include The Moon and Sixpence (1919), based on the life of the French painter Paul Gauguin; Cakes and Ale (1930), satirizing Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole; and The Razor’s Edge (1944), dealing with a young American’s search for spiritual fulfillment. | | | Maugham had written eight novels before his breakthrough masterpiece, the partly autobiographical Of Human Bondage (1915), appeared. | | | Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction |
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| | Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 037575315X |
| | W. Somerset Maugham weaves an intriguing tale of love and betrayal in his critically acclaimed "Of Human Bondage." Maugham uses the tale of Phillip, an innocent, sensitive crippled man in Victorian era Europe as a front for his own autobiography. | | | Maugham's brilliant prose and insights into the human psyche make this book a true classic. | | | Maugham gives beautiful descriptions of England, France, and Germany along the way. |
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http://www.comparebookprices.ca/book_detail/037575315X
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| | W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S THE RAZOR'S EDGE: True or False? |
| | As you may recall, in Maugham's novel Moon and the Sixpence, he tells a story about a man he calls Charles Strickland, an Englishman who, at the age of 40, completely abandons his wife and two children and runs off to the south seas to pursue art. | | | However, in The Razor's Edge, except for his efforts to "save embarrassment to people still living" by using "story names of his own contriving," he stuck to a fairly interesting set of facts, facts that could have been written, rewritten or changed in another way if he had so chose. | | | Maugham presents to the reader the following as he quotes Darrell telling of his Enlightenment experience: |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham - The Book Forum |
| | Maugham returned to England, but before leaving, requested that any books or literature availble from the Ashram be forwarded to him in England. | | | Of course, this "holy man", who remains unnamed in the movie, was in real life Ramana Maharshi, whom Somerset Maughm visited for a week. | | | When our hero asks the cardshark why he was moved to visit India, he answers that he is always travelling about, trying to escape someone whom he has wronged. |
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http://www.thebookforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7758
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| | Bluejake: W. Somerset Maugham |
| | Maybe the way he was playing on what I've come to see as his usual themes- man's pursuit of his destiny and the unknoweable and art. | | | It was a dog eared copy from the early sixties- someone had read it a bunch of times before me. The experience of reading that book turned me around. | | | Just a couple of months ago I picked up one of Maugham's earliest books, The Magician, from 1907. |
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http://www.bluejake.com/archives/2002/11/18/w_somerset_maugham.php
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| | Literary Visitors To Mystery Fiction |
| | Maugham's crime tales, "Before the Party" (1922), "The Letter" (1924), "Footprints in the Jungle" (1927), "The Book-Bag", are apparently the only Maugham tales largely based on real life events, whereas most of his stories are purely fictional, and completely made up out of his head. | | | Stacpoole was the poor man's Somerset Maugham, writing tales of exotic intrigue and adventure in South East Asia and the Riviera, but without Maugham's depth or intelligence. | | | Solange, the detective and point of view character, often intrudes on the lives of these characters just as Maugham himself does in his own stories, socializing with them, observing them, learning their secrets and watching their tragedies. |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | in full William Somerset Maugham English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work is characterized by a clear unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human nature. | | | E-text of Of Human Bondage, written by W Somerset Maugham, an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. | | | The success of this book determined Maugham's career. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9051480?tocId=9051480
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| | Somerset Maugham |
| | The book achieved modest public acclaim—even notoriety—sufficient, in fact, for Maugham to abandon his medical career to become a full-time writer. | | | The first of these stories was The Moon and Sixpence (1919), a novel based on the life of Gauguin. | | | Menard's book, The Two Worlds of Somerset Maugham(1965), makes interesting reading. |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham books reviews |
| | Maugham's masterly commentary on life, literature and the pursuit of his craft of writing.... | | | He also becomes interested in the journey of Larry, a American who is on a quest to discover his meaning in life and comes upon a religious awakening.... | | | The list of books and novels by Maugham continue below: |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham |
| | "W. Somerset Maugham gave the manuscript of his novel Of Human Bondage to the Library [of Congress] in 1946. | | | Stanford Library has a large collection from Bertram Alanson including manuscripts and correspondence from Maugham, plus a small collection of other manuscripts and letters. | | | Search for books by WSM, both new and used, at Powell's Books. |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham Message Board |
| | The minister's succumbing to his passions illustrates not only the hypocrisy in religion but also Maugham's frequent theme of human weakness or man's flawed character. | | | I am trying to find a book or short story by S. Maugham with the character "Ronna" in it. | | | The guile of Miss Thompson may typify, what I think some would say, Maugham's familiar misogynous theme. |
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| | A Companion to the Characters in the Fiction and Drama of W. Somerset Maugham (Greenwood Publishing Group) ... |
| | Maugham based his characters on real people whom he observed and analyzed, and his characters transcend the themes and settings of his fictional worlds. | | | This volume lists and descibes each and every character mentioned in Maugham's fiction and drama, including living, dead, human, animal, imaginary, historical, named, and unnamed inhabitants of his works. | | | Agriculture in Britain and America, 1660-1820: An Annotated Bibliography of the Eighteenth-Century Literature |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham and Beaufort County, SC |
| | Maugham’s Bonny Hall host, Nelson Doubleday (1889-1949), used to say, "I sell books, I don't read them." In the Dictionary of American Biography, Paul S. Boyer wrote that Doubleday sold a great many books – inexpensive editions, mass-produced for broad appeal. | | | According to the January 2, 1955 issue of the Savannah Morning News, "the interior of the one-room writing house (was) lined inside with book shelves" with "no distracting view which would interfere with the author's labors. | | | Somerset Maugham returned to England after the war. |
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| | USATODAY.com - 'Constant': Non-stop drollery |
| | Burton's latest witty, wily woman is rather an elegant pragmatist and a perfect foil for the self-righteous society gals and foolish but innocuous hypocrites who pop up in Maugham's satire of highbrow domesticity. | | | And she finds additional happiness in a separate pursuit that has nothing to do with dating or marriage whatsoever. | | | From his first scene with Constance, we feel a pang of regret that she didn't choose this guy over John in the first place. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/reviews/2005-06-16-the-constant-wife_x.htm
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| | W. Somerset Maugham + Robert Burns |
| | It was during World War One that Maugham wrote a play featuring a scene in which a parson assured a bereaved mother that God had forgiven her son. | | | The woman asked, "Who's going to forgive God?" — a line that Bishop Charles Gore claimed, "took a Christian's breath away." His masterpiece is Of Human Bondage (1917), a semi-autobiographical novel about an orphan brought up by pious relatives. | | | Brought up by a religious aunt and uncle, he got himself into medical school, clerked in the slums of Lambeth, and when his first novel sold well — Liza of Lambeth (1897) — gave up medicine for fiction. |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham biography pictures portrait books online forum |
| | Follow book link(s) below for W. Somerset Maugham books online. | | | Forum pictures biography and W. Somerset Maugham books online: Moon and Sixpence, Of Human Bondage. | | | Search Classical Authors Directory for W. Somerset Maugham books (Courtesy of AuthorsDirectory.Com) |
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| | AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS: W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/23/1962 |
| | This is a man I do not care much about dealing with, so I leave the matter entirely in your hands. | | | Yours sincerely." British author William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) wrote eight novels before publishing the partly autobiographical Of Human Bondage (1915). | | | Maugham was also a successful writer of plays, short stories and travelogues. |
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| | Please wait while we find you the best price for Moon and Sixpence, The (Dover thrift editions), this should take no more than 30 seconds. | | | Moon and Sixpence, The (Dover thrift editions) W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 0486287319 |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham |
| | aka W. Somerset Maugham: Mother Love (UK: series title) | | | aka W. Somerset Maugham: Virtue (UK: series title) | | | aka W. Somerset Maugham: The Fall of Edward Barnard (UK: series title) |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham |
| | The online books of W. Somerset Maugham: Moon and Sixpence, Of Human Bondage. | | | The online book or books with annotations helping advance Emotional Literacy Education and Self-Knowledge include: Moon and Sixpence, Of Human Bondage. | | | Classical Authors Directory: M Authors: W. Somerset Maugham |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham |
| | William Somerset Maugham - Maugham, William Somerset, 1874–1965, English writer, b. | | | Fantasy as necessity: the role of the biographer in 'The Moon and Sixpence.' (novel by W. Somerset Maugham) (Studies in the Novel) | | | Although he was most well known as an author, W. Somerset Maugham had a varied professional life that included obstetrics and a stint as a secret agent during World War I. The success of his first novel, |
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| | Maugham's Anatomy Quote |
| | This month we continue in a literary vein (see July). | | | Maugham practiced only briefly, publishing his first novel in 1897 (Liza of Lameth) and becoming a successful playwright by 1907. | | | Despite his commercial success (Maughm had 4 plays running simultaneously in London in 1908), Maugham characterized his work in his autobiography (The Summing Up, 1938) as standing "in the first row of the second-raters", an opinion largely endorsed by literary critics. |
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| | Random House Books Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham |
| | "[Maugham] is a master for creating the appetite for information, of withholding it until the right moment, and then providing it surprisingly." --Evelyn Waugh | | | The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best. | | | But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. |
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| | THEMISATHENA.INFO: W. Somerset Maugham |
| | Letters of William Somerset Maugham To Lady Juliet Duff (1982) | | | Somerset Maugham's biography at the Kirjasto Authors' Calendar | | | The W. Somerset Maugham page of the LiteraryMoose |
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| | The Classical Fiction Writers. |
| | George Eliot was the pen name of Marian Evans. | | | After attending Heidelberg University he went off, at the request of his family, to study medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital, London; he never practised; he spent his life as a writer. | | | Sir W. Robertson Nicoll says, "the finest conversation in the world is to be found in George Eliot's novels, - Boswell's Johnson is practically monologue." [ |
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| | Moon Phase Miscellaneous Software Reviews: Julian, Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic calendars.; Julian, Gregorian, Hebrew, ... |
| | The Moon and Sixpence 1.0 - The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham | | | Recruiternet a leading provider of flexible technology solutions for human resources professionals announces that Ted Mooney has joined the company as Director of Sales.PORTLAND, ME - January 30, 2004 — Recruiternet, a leading provider of flexible | | | Icon Lock-iT XP Browse Software Reviews: 0..9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| | THE RAZOR'S EDGE RING |
| | Larry Darrell was the name W. Somerset Maugham used in his novel for an unnamed person from real life. | | | Larry tells Maugham of his meeting with the Maharshi and eventual spiritual awakening. | | | Although eastern mysticism is the main focus in Maugham's novel, threads of other religions abide. |
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| | W. Somerset Maugham Center - about |
| | I enjoyed his collection of short stories as a diversion at the time but my life was not at a stage which allowed me to fully appreciate his work. | | | I am interested in his professional life as a writer. | | | What he did in his private life is no concern or interest of mine. |
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| | Somerset Maugham |
| | While training to be a doctor Maugham worked as an obstetric clerk in the slums of Lambeth. | | | Maugham had sexual relationships with both men and women and in 1915, Syrie Wellcome, the daughter of Dr. | | | By the time he was ten, both William's parents were dead and he was sent to live with his uncle, the Rev. Henry Maugham, in Whitstable, Kent. |
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| | Maugham, W. (William) Somerset: Sanatorium |
| | The stories are narrated by one of the patients who makes observations and predictions about his peers in the institution. | | | There is a mixture of humor and pathos in the dialogue between these two. | | | The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: II. |
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| | W Somerset Maugham Bibliography |
| | The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong | | | In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965. | | | He spent some time at St. Thomas's Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. |
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