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First serialized in 1924 and published as a complete novel in 1925, "The Painted Veil" is the powerful novel of transgression and redemption by popular and prolific British author W. Somerset Maugham. "The Painted Veil" tells the story of the lovely and superficial Kitty Garstin and her unhappy marriage to Walter Fane, a quiet and honorable man. Kitty agrees to marry Walter not because she loves him, but because she fears being upstaged by her younger...
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From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But, even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love with a waitress, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever....
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Liza of Lambeth (1897) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Written while the author was living as a medical student in London, the Maugham's debut marked an electrifying start to an illustrious career in literature. Controversial for its portrayal of infidelity, domestic violence, and women's reproductive health, Liza of Lambeth is a gritty realist tale that takes an honest look at, the everyday struggles of actual Londoners in a time of celebration...
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Doubleday, Doran & company, inc
Pub. Date
[c1928]
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x p., 1 l., 13-324 p. 20 cm.
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English
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Mrs. Craddock (1902) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Controversial for its portrayal of infidelity and marriage across social classes, Mrs. Craddock was instrumental in establishing Maugham's reputation as a leading author of the late Victorian era. Due to its content, the novel appeared exclusively in Bowdlerized form until Maugham saw it republished in 1938. Bertha Ley has always been independent. Orphaned at a young age, she comes into a sizable...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
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viii, 665 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers.
From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago Pago, in Samoa or Malaya or on a Tahitian tropical isle, the men and women in this collection of masterfully crafted tales inhabit exotic, mysterious worlds-and at their own peril invade the dark territory of the human heart.
Somerset Maugham,...
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English
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Island-hopping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory; yet any means of transportation is hard to resist. The trip turns turbulent, however, when a vicious storm forces them to seek shelter on the remote island of Kanda. There these three men fall under the spell of the sultry and stunningly beautiful Louise, and their story spirals into a...
10) Cosmopolitans
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Heron
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
ii-xv, 302 pages 8 plates, illustrations, portrait 21 cm.
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English
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A collection of very short, great stories written for Cosmopolitan Magazine between 1924 and 1929. Once again, Maugham proves himself to be a master of the short fiction form in this brilliant collection of 29 stories which, like so much of his other books, are cosmopolitan in nature and these little gems have a Jazz Era setting.
11) The summing up
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1963
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202 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
13) The magician
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English
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"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 si?cle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves?until the sinister and repulsive Oliver Haddo appears.
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English
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Cakes and ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but...
16) The hero
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English
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James Parsons returns home after military service in South Africa and finds his worldview changed. His family's affections are oppressive, his betrothed, Mary, now seems repulsive, and life has become a hollow burden.
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Doubleday, Doran
Pub. Date
1941
Physical Desc
xiii, 304 p. 21 cm.
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English
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Ashenden: Or the British Agent is a 1928 collection of loosely linked stories by W. Somerset Maugham. It is partly based on the author's experience as a member of British Intelligence in Europe during the First World War.
18) Cakes and ale
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 270
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English
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Presents the satiric novel that many claim as their favorite among Maugham's works, about a man born of English peasants who gained fame only after he became old.
20) Up at the villa
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Vintage International
Pub. Date
2000
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1st Vintage International ed.
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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