An ambitious novel by the formidable talent, Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris
until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and
at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas'
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. Of Human Bondage, the first of his
masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of
The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was
established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright
and short story writer was being consolidated with acclaimed
productions of various plays and the publication of The
Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South
Sea Islands, in 1921, which was followed by seven more
collections. His other works include travel books, essays,
criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A
Writer's Notebook.
In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived
there until his death in 1965.
One of my favourite writers -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents...precision, tact,
irony and total absence of pomposity * Spectator *
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