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	W. Somerset Maugham
		Somerset Maugham was born in Paris, as the sixth and youngest son of the solicitor to the British embassy.
		Maugham believed that there is a true harmony in the contradictions of mankind and that the normal is in reality the abnormal.
		Among the characters are Maugham as Ashenden, Thomas Hardy as Driffield, and Hugh Walpole as Kear.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /maugham.htm (1748 words)

	W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten.
		Somerset Maugham, born William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 Paris, France – December 16, 1965 Nice, France) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, reputedly the highest paid author of the 1930s.
		Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although the latter part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Somerset_Maugham (940 words)

	Maugham, William Somerset on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An introverted child afflicted with a stammer, Maugham was orphaned at 10 and sent to live with his uncle, a vicar.
		Maugham wrote with wit and irony, frequently expressing an aloofly cynical attitude toward life.
		Somerset Maugham's "The Ant and the Grasshopper": the literary implications of its multilayered structure.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/maugham.asp (551 words)

	MAUGHAM
		William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris, France, January 25, 1874, the youngest of four children born to Mr.
		Maugham proved to be an extremely intelligent young man, but the rigors of school discipline combined with continued taunts from his classmates forced him to leave school before he completed his education.
		In 1917 Maugham was sent on a top secret mission to Russia in an attempt to persuade their government to engage in war with Germany and prevent the formation of the Bolshevik government.
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	Somerset Maugham
		These circumstances led the young Maugham to be shy and withdrawn; consequently he became an observer rather than an active participant, but he was able to turn this to his advantage as a writer.
		Maugham published Ashenden in 1928, a group of short stories based on his experience as a British espionage agent during World War I. For the first time, a spy was portrayed as gentlemanly, sophisticated, and aloof.
		Maugham enjoyed a royal lifestyle at the Villa Mauresque, and an invitation by Maugham to spend a few weeks there was highly prized by the literary and social elite.
	www.caxtonclub.org /reading/smaugham.html (1126 words)

	NOVA Online \| Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies \| William Somerset Maugham
		Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his time.
		Maugham was asked to gather intelligence on the German spy network developing in the Russian capital and to support the Mensheviks by countering Bolshevik plans to pull Russia out of the war.
		Maugham sent back significant information to London and developed a plan for the SIS to maintain a group of agents in Russia to combat German influence on the Provisional Government through propaganda and spying.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/venona/dece_maugham.html (496 words)

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		William Somerset Maugham was born in the British Embassy in Paris, on January 25, 1874 to Robert Ormond Maugham and Edith Mary Snell.
		Maugham believed that "there is a true harmony in the contradictions of mankind and that the normal is in reality the abnormal." In The Ant and the Grasshopper he had juxtaposed two brothers, the irresponsible Tom, and the respectable and hard-working George.
		William Somerset Maugham a poet, dramatist, and short-story writer was born in Paris to a lawyer and a mother who died when he was only eight years old after the birth of a child who survived for only a day.
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	W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Biography
		Born in Paris, of Irish ancestry, Somerset Maugham was to lead a fascinating life and would become famous for his mastery of short evocative stories that were often set in the more obscure and remote areas of the British Empire.
		An invitation by Maugham to spend a few hours to a weeks was highly prized by the literary and social elite of the era.
		Somerset Maugham was the master of the short, concise novel and he could convey relationships, greed and ambition with a startling reality.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/anna_jones1/maugham.html (910 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - W. Somerset Maugham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maugham's boyhood was blighted by insecurities, including a stammer that forced him to withdraw from most social interaction -- this was a central motivation for Maugham to become an observer of life, and an author.
		Maugham was the highest paid author in the world during the 1930s, a decade in which (though he stopped writing plays after 1933) he also enjoyed his heyday on the screen, as adaptations of his writings appeared annually.
		Maugham was also cited definitively as one of the major authors of the 20th century in the rush to qualify and quantify at the end of that 100-year cycle.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/153623/bio.jhtml (1432 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Somerset Maugham
		Maugham's grandfather Robert (1799-1862), educated at Appleby Grammar School, was articled as a solicitor in 1817 and later taken into partnership.
		Maugham, calling upon the disconsolate deserted marchioness, tried to console her by saying that he would surely regret it and come back to her before long.
		William Somerset Maugham, Edith's youngest son, was born in the British embassy in Paris (to protect him from later conscription into the French army) on January 25, 1874.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/somersetmaugham.htm (1840 words)

	W. Somerset Maugham and Beaufort County, SC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maugham's workshop was a separate, one-room cabin facing the Combahee River, a hundred feet away from the bigger house (This area is now known as Parker’s Ferry Plantation).
		Maugham's manuscript-size rural mailbox from Yemassee has long been on display at the Beaufort Museum, and and once could be seen in the old Township Library.
		Maugham and Doubleday most often came in person to the store to get their supplies (if they were especially busy, they would send hired persons on the errand).
	www.co.beaufort.sc.us /bftlib/maugham.htm (1253 words)

	Somerset Maugham Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors.
		It is awarded to who they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a work of fiction published in the past year.
		The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name: the award is currently £3500, to be spent on foreign travel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Somerset_Maugham_Award (180 words)

	Somerset Maugham Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
		William Somerset Maugham a poet, dramatist, and short-story writer was born in Paris to a lawyer and a mother who died when he was only eight years old after the birth of a child who survived for only a day.
		Maugham's education happened at the King's School in Canterbury and Heidelberg University before he went on to study medicine at St Thomas's Hospital in London.
		Maugham bought a house on the French Riviera in 1926 that was attended by numerous writers and politicians such as Winston Churchill.
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	Knitting Circle Somerset Maugham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Somerset Maugham was then a British secret agent in Geneva, followed by Petrograd (St Petersburg).
		Somerset Maugham and Gerald Haxton went to live on the French Riviera in the villa 'Mauresque'.
		A picture of Somerset Maugham in 1907 when he was 33 is shown in James Gardiner's "Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, (1996), page 31.
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	Somerset Maugham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Maugham was born-in the British Embassy in Paris in 1874-he was destined to become a lawyer.
		Sometimes Maugham's stories were thinly disguised episodes involving his host or others he had met on his travels-circumstances that occasionally resulted in threats and lawsuits.
		Maugham went to live in the Villa Mauresque, where he continued to write and entertain the rich and famous.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/maugham_somerset.htm (538 words)

	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - BOOKS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The basic story of Maugham’s life is familiar: An English boy born and raised in France until the age of ten, when he was brought to live in the English town of Whitstable with his severe and strictly religious aunt and uncle (the vicar Whitstable).
		Maugham, on the other hand, believed that, first and foremost, the point of literature was to tell a good story (although he must have known that he was oversimplifying his own ideals when he said this).
		Somerset Maugham has long been deserving of serious study, and Jeffrey Meyers’s biography may be just the impetus to bring it about; the very fact that someone like Meyers has chosen to treat him seriously is a testament to the worthiness of Maugham’s place in literary history.
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /books/march04/maugham.html (1069 words)

	Somerset Maugham
		De Acosta writes that Maugham visited the ashrama "...a few weeks before my visit..." She was there three days, November 22,23,24, 1938, giving the implication that Maugham was there late September to early November 1938.
		I have seen dates for Maugham being in India ranging from as early as 1933 to as late as 1940 with Maugham himself quoting both 1936 and 1938.
		After tea, Somerset Maugham, who was wearing a large pair of boots, wanted to go to the Hall and see where Bhagavan usually lived.
	www.beezone.com /Ramana/somerset_maugham.html (1244 words)

	W. Somerset Maugham
		W(illiam) Somerset Maugham, playwright, novelist and short story writer was born of British parents in Paris in 1874.
		Maugham studied philosophy and literature at Heidelberg University and then in London he qualified as a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital.
		An address by W. Somerset Maugham given by Mr Maugham in the Coolidge Auditorium, the Library of Congress, on the occasion of his presenting the original manuscript of his novel Of Human Bondage.
	www.bl.uk /collections/britirish/modbrimaugh.html (775 words)

	Threepenny: Colegate, Somerset Maugham
		Maugham may not have had the moral imagination of Conrad or the sometimes surprising compassion of Kipling—or, for that matter, the pure love of adventure of Stevenson in his stories of the South Seas—but his pen was sharp and his observation keen.
		Her self-knowledge makes her the most nearly likeable of Maugham's women— which may not be saying a great deal, since it is rare for him to cast a kindly eye on any of the female sex.
		The ever-present narrator—sometimes it is not Maugham himself but some other detached figure, a doctor, a man in an armchair in his club —is always the master of ceremonies, the prestidigitator, the one who does not need to lower his mask.
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	’Somerset Maugham’: The Old Parrot
		Somerset Maugham, the most successful writer of his time and maybe the most glamorous as well, set a dazzling standard for worldly glory that younger writers impotently envied.
		Maugham was sent from Paris, where his father had been an honorary legal adviser to the British Embassy, to an unsympathetic English uncle, ''a very narrow-minded and far from intelligent cleric.
		Maugham's early experiences are mirrored in the career of Philip Carey in ''Of Human Bondage'': the lonely and deracinated boy (Maugham had never visited England before his parents' death) was sent to a chilly boarding school where he was handicapped not only by his poor English but by a painful stammer.
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	Sri Ramana Maharshi and Somerset Maugham
		Maugham also wrote a non-fiction account of his visit in an essay entitled 'The Saint', which was published twenty years after the event in 1958.
		In an interview that he gave in the South of France, Maugham apparently told him that he had met an American devotee called Guy Hague at Sri Ramanasramam and had immediately decided to use him as a model for the main character in his next book.
		Although he clearly believes that Menard's dialogues between Bhagavan and Maugham and those between Maugham and Hague are fictitious, there are still a few compelling reasons for supposing that Hague was the person who had inspired the character of Larry Darrel.
	www.davidgodman.org /rteach/smaugham.shtml (3588 words)

	W. Somerset Maugham - Authors - Random House
		Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874.
		Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached the pinnacle of his art.
		In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years.
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	The troubled popularity of Somerset Maugham \| csmonitor.com
		Citing the declaration by critic and thriller writer Julian Symons that "the modern spy story began with Somerset Maugham's 'Ashenden' (1928)," Meyers notes the influence of that somberly realistic novel of espionage on writers as unalike as Graham Greene, John le Carré, and Ian Fleming.
		Maugham was also a masterly short story writer, and, as Meyers reminds us, a fine playwright whose hard-edged social comedies went on to influence Noel Coward.
		George Orwell said that Maugham, whom he "admired immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills," was the modern writer who had most influenced him.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0217/p14s02-bogn.html (902 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Somerset Maugham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maugham's largely unhappy existence culminated in unfulfilling luxury in exile, elusive critical approval in England and embittered misanthropy.
		While Maugham was clearly important in the literary world, Meyers's high estimation of him, compared with his rivals and betters such as Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Joseph Conrad, is not fully convincing.
		Maugham's characteristically harsh but accurate verdict on his own position as "in the very first row of the second-raters" trumps Meyers's praise and reassessment, but Meyers does show how Maugham maintained, through determination as much as talent, the longest successful career in English letters.
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	W. Somerset Maugham
		Somerset Maugham and the Quest for Freedom (William Heinemann, 1972) and Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (William Heinemann, 1989).
		Somerset Maugham and the Maugham dynasty, by Bryan Connon.
		The Somerset Maugham Awards are administered by The Society of Authors (who have a nice quote from Shaw on their otherwise overblown front page).
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	wais:biography: somerset maugham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Gehl sends us this bio of the British fiction and drama writer W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), whose writing was popular with readers but not always praised by critics.
		Over the years Maugham published some 100 short stories for popular magazines, and these stories were collected and published posthumously in four volumes in 1977 and 1978.
		Maugham was born in Paris, where his father was a British embassy official.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week110104/bio_somersetmaugham_110104.htm (485 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Somerset Maugham (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		William Somerset Maugham, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		William Somerset Maugham[mOm] Pronunciation Key, 1874–1965, English author, b.
		Maugham wrote with wit and irony, frequently expressing a cynical attitude toward life.
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