'A superb storyteller - one of the very best in our language' Daily Mail
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
literature. 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 writer was being
consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the
publication of several short story 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
A superb storyteller - one of the very best in our language
*Daily Mail*
The modern writer who has influenced me most
*George Orwell*
Maugham has given infinite pleasure and left us a splendour of
writing which will remain for as long as the written English word
is permitted to exist
*Daily Telegraph*
This semi-autobiographical novel, set at the end of the 19th
century, gripped me from the start with its tale of the life of
Philip Carey. Its depiction of how a man can become enslaved by an
unsuitable love is unsparing
*The Week*
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