THE GENTLEMAN IN THE PARLOUR—W. Somerset Maugham — Doubleday, Doran ($3). Author Maugham writes with few illusions about himself, about his writing. Says he: “This book is the record of a journey ...
Orlando Sentinel: “The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography” by Selina Hastings
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings Random House, 640 pp., $35 Once upon a time a serious novelist could be very, very popular. Then something came unstuck, and now the appearance ...
SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Life. By Jeffrey Meyers. Knopf, 349 pp. $30. Who better to write a biography of the versatile, prolific and long-lived William Somerset Maugham than Jeffrey Meyers, himself an ...
In The Summing Up, published in 1938 when he was sixty-four years old, Somerset Maugham inveighed against literary obscurity and extolled the virtue of clarity (his own peculiar forte). His sentiments ...
THE VAGRANT MOOD: SIX ESSAYS (250 pp.) — W. Somerset Maugham — Doubleday ($3). “My days as a professional writer are over,” said Somerset Maugham in 1948. “I’m putting up the shutters, shutting up the ...
For much of his long life — he lived to be over ninety — Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was the most famous writer in the world. He was known everywhere for his superb short stories and for his novels, ...
Over the course of a literary career that spanned an astonishing eight decades, Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) wrote some of the 20th century's best-loved novels (e.g., "Of Human Bondage"), a cluster of ...