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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there."Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage i... Read More about Of Human Bondage

One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham’s reputation as a literary masterThe Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children ... Read More about The Moon and Sixpence

Maugham’s enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham’s most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siecle Paris, A... Read More about The Magician

“There is something bracing about the sincerity of [Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well as the cancerous sore beneath.” —Leslie A. Marchand,... Read More about Mrs Craddock

William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century—and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more than five decades, adaptations of his plays, stories, and novels dominated movie theaters and, late... Read More about Somerset Maugham and the Cinema (Wisconsin Film Studies)

What do you get when you take a pinch of revolution, a dash of drugs, monsters, and tales of childhood warning and wrap them up in a pretty bow? A beautiful collection of ugly stories sure to inspire, repulse, and enlighten. The Lard Is My Shepherd is a collection of nail-biting stories from childh... Read More about The Lard Is My Shepherd: A Collection of Short Fiction