Somerset Maugham 1967 HC/DJ at the best online. In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Cakes and Ale and Twelve Short Stories by W. His other works include travel books such as On a Chinese Screen, and Don Fernando, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections.
His first play, A Man of Honour, was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. 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. A first edition of Maughams satire of Londons literary society. Thomas' Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. Cakes and Ale: Or The Skeleton in the Cupboard. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten.
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