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	W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The Travel Books of W. Somerset Maugham (1955)
		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

	W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Biography
		Somerset Maugham was the master of the short, concise novel and he could convey relationships, greed and ambition with a startling reality.
		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.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/anna_jones1/maugham.html

	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.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/anna_jones1/wsm_biog.html

	the book
		Somerset Maugham was born in Paris as the sixth and youngest son of the solicitor to the British embassy.
		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.
	curator.hotbox.ru /maugham.html

	Somerset Maugham
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.caxtonclub.org /reading/smaugham.html

	Somerset Maugham Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Somerset_Maugham_Award

	NOVA Online Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies William Somerset Maugham
		Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his time.
		Somerset Maugham is believed to be the first author of spy books who actually was a spy.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/venona/dece_maugham.html

	washingtonpost.com: Somerset Maugham
		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.
		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.
		Maugham's grandfather Robert (1799-1862), educated at Appleby Grammar School, was articled as a solicitor in 1817 and later taken into partnership.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/somersetmaugham.htm

	MTV.com - Movies - W. Somerset Maugham
		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.
		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'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.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/153623/bio.jhtml

	W. Somerset Maugham and Beaufort County, SC
		Somerset Maugham returned to England after the war.
		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).
		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).
	www.co.beaufort.sc.us /bftlib/maugham.htm

	Full text and plot summary of Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
		W Somerset Maugham is known for both his novels and his plays, the first of the former being Liza of Lambeth (1897) which was ‘new-realist’ in style, while the latter appeared prolifically (Maugham once had four plays running concurrently in London).
		Maugham grew up in Whitstable, and as such Carey lives in Blackstable; Maugham was eduated in Canterbury, Carey in Tercanbury etc. The novel follows his adventures as he lives with the frustration of having a club foot.
		In Maugham’s own case, a bad stammer was a similar source of alienation.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/38/76

	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - BOOKS
		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.
		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).
		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).
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /books/march04/maugham.html

	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.
		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.
		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.
	www.threepennyreview.com /samples/colegate_f04.html

	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

	Sri Ramana Maharshi and Somerset Maugham
		After tea, Somerset Maugham, who was wearing a large pair of boots, wanted to go to the hall and see where Bhagavan usually lived.
		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.
	www.davidgodman.org /rteach/smaugham.shtml

	Knitting Circle Somerset Maugham
		Somerset Maugham and Gerald Haxton went to live on the French Riviera in the villa 'Mauresque'.
		Somerset Maugham was then a British secret agent in Geneva, followed by Petrograd (St Petersburg).
		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.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/wsmaugham.html

	Somerset Maugham
		Maugham had sexual relationships with both men and women and in 1915, Syrie Wellcome, the daughter of Dr.
		During the war Maugham was invited by Sir John Wallinger, head of Britain's Military Intelligence (MI6) in France, to act as a secret service agent.
		Maugham agreed and over the next few years acted as a link between MI6 in London and its agents working in Europe.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jmaugham.htm

	W. Somerset Maugham AUTHOR CATALOG
		Somerset Maugham was one of the twentieth century’s most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer.
		Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in thethe short story he reached the pinnacle of his artwas his true métier.
		Based on Maugham’s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=19481

	’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'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.
		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.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/03/14/books/review/14ALLENT.html?ex=1394600400&en=9c053da09bb9473c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

	W. Somerset Maugham
		W(illiam) Somerset Maugham, playwright, novelist and short story writer was born of British parents in Paris in 1874.
		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.
		A companion to the characters in the fiction and drama of W. Somerset Maugham.
	www.bl.uk /collections/britirish/modbrimaugh.html

	wais:biography: somerset maugham
		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.
		Maugham was born in Paris, where his father was a British embassy official.
		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.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week110104/bio_somersetmaugham_110104.htm

	Amazon.ca: Books: Somerset Maugham
		I'm delighted to say that his new book on W. Somerset Maugham is just as good.
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375414754

	W. Somerset Maugham
		The Somerset Maugham Awards are administered by The Society of Authors (who have a nice quote from Shaw on their otherwise overblown front page).
		Somerset Maugham and the Quest for Freedom (William Heinemann, 1972) and Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (William Heinemann, 1989).
		He also wrote A Companion to the Characters in the Fiction and Drama of W. Somerset Maugham.
	www.cakesandale.com /maugham.html

	Maugham's Anatomy Quote
		William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was born in Paris, the son of a lawyer attached to the British embassy.
		Maugham practiced only briefly, publishing his first novel in 1897 (Liza of Lameth) and becoming a successful playwright by 1907.
		Despite his commercial success (Maughm had 4 plays running simultaneously in London in 1908), Maugham characterized his work in his autobiography (The Summing Up, 1938) as standing "in the first row of the second-raters", an opinion largely endorsed by literary critics.
	www.fiu.edu /~condon/maugham.htm

	William Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965. British author
		Clippings from newspapers hailing the 80th and 90th birthdays of W. Somerset Maugham; reviews of late essays and recounting personal incidents, including financial settlement with daughter, Lady John Hope, in dispute over nine impressionist paintings and report that the author wished all his personal correspondence destroyed at his death.
		French born and English raised, Maugham originally began his studies in medicine, but quickly abandoned such pursuit after the success of his first novels and plays in the late 1800’s, the most popular work of which was Liza of Lambeth (1897).
		Maugham worked as for the British Intelligence, originally assigned to work during the Russian Revolution.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/maugham/maugham.html

	Powell's Books - The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham
		Somerset Maugham was one the twentieth century‛s most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer.
		Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
		The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=1400034205

	W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maugham spent most of World War II in the United States, first in Hollywood (he worked on many scripts, and was one of the first authors to make significant money from film adaptations of his books) and later in the South.
		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).
		Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Somerset_Maugham (1110 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: M: Maugham, W Somerset
		Allreaders W. Somerset Maugham Spotlight · cached · Detailed analysis of the plot, theme, setting and characters of his books, plus links to similar books.
		The Knitting Circle: Somerset Maugham · Summary biography and bibliography from the Lesbian and Gay Staff Association of South Bank University.
		The Limits of Graciousness · cached · A discussion of Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener and Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence from a Christian viewpoint.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=41299 (1110 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Moon and Sixpence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
		Somerset Maugham "I CONFESS that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of..." (more)
		Maugham, as always, writes in a very easy to read style, the characters are crafted imaginatively and sensitively, and the story is interesting and progresses like a biography.
		Maugham also deals very frankly with what would be controversial life choices today in 2005, much less in 1919 when the book was published.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140185976?v=glance (1110 words)

	American Scholar: Peter Arno meets Somerset Maugham.@ HighBeam Research
		Playwright/novelist Somerset Maugham and cartoonist Peter Arno observed the world with similar perceptives and outlooks.
		Maugham was dressed in gray slacks, a tweed jacket, and black moccasins, and he wore them with the upperclass Britisher's knack of making even new clothes appear faintly shabby and disreputable.
		Not that there was ever anything bohemian in Maugham's dress or manner.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20158548&refid=ip_search (1110 words)

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