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	William Somerset Maugham
		William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 - 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer.
		Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although this part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
		Somerset Maugham died in Nice, France on December 16, 1965.
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	MAUGHAM
		William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris, France, January 25, 1874, the youngest of four children born to Mr.
		William was not happy with the events that befell him, the death of his parents, living with relatives and all, and his life at King's School in Canterbury, the school he attended, reflected that.
		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.
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	Science Fair Projects - William Somerset Maugham
		William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965) was born in Paris, France to English parents, speaking only French until he was orphaned at 11 and moved to his surviving family in England.
		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 also edited and finished the autobiography of the Victorian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), called "The Truth at Last", which was posthumously published in 1924.
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	WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
		Somerset Maugham was born in Paris as the sixth and youngest son of the solicitor to the British embassy.
		Maugham's breakthrough novel was the semi-autobiographical OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1915), which is usually considered his outstanding achievement.
		In the early part of 1938 Maugham Travels in India, meeting Sri Ramana Maharshi, who he later used as a model for the holy man in his novel The Razor's Edge.
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	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.
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	Maugham, William Somerset. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		Maugham’s other famous novels include The Moon and Sixpence (1919), based on the life of the French painter Paul Gauguin; Cakes and Ale (1930), satirizing Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole; and The Razor’s Edge (1944), dealing with a young American’s search for spiritual fulfillment.
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	W. Somerset Maugham
		Maugham's famous novel THE MOON AND THE SIXPENCE (1919) was the story of Charles Strickland (or actually Paul Gauguin), an artist, whose rejection of Western civilization led to his departure for Tahiti.
		As an agent and writer Maugham was a link in a long tradition from Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and Daniel Defoe to the modern day writers Graham Greene, John Le Carré, John Dickson Carr, Alec Waugh and Ted Allbeury.
		Among the characters are Maugham as Ashenden, Thomas Hardy as Driffield, and Hugh Walpole as Kear.
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	William Somerset Maugham on LearnOutLoud.com - Your Audio and Video Learning Resource.
		William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was born at the height of British Imperial power.
		William Somerset Maugham, novelist, playwright, short-storywriter, and the highest paid author in the world in the 1930's, nevertheless failed to gain critical acclaim....
		William Somerset Maugham (1874?1965) was born at the height of British imperial power.
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	ipedia.com: William Somerset Maugham Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer.
		In 1917, in New Jersey, Maugham married his mistress, Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Dr. Thomas Barnardo and former wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome.
		Somerset Maugham edited and finished the biography of the victorian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), called The Truth at Last", which was posthumously published in 1924.
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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.
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	William Somerset Maugham
		William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874.
		Somerset Maugham has written 24 plays, nineteen novels and a large number of short stories, in addition to travel works and autobiographies.
		Maugham wants the reader to draw his own conclusion about the characters and events described in his novels.
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	William Somerset Maugham - Encyclopedia.com
		Maugham's other famous novels include The Moon and Sixpence (1919), based on the life of the French painter Paul Gauguin ; Cakes and Ale (1930), satirizing Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole ; and The Razor's Edge (1944), dealing with a young American's search for spiritual fulfillment.
		Tsara and commissars: W. Somerset Maugham, "Ashenden" and images of Russia in British adventure fiction, 1890-1930.
		Somerset Maugham's "The Ant and the Grasshopper": the literary implications of its multilayered structure.
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	William Somerset Maugham - Biography and Works
		Maugham was born in France in 1874 as the sixth and the youngest child of an English family.
		Maugham’s first novel Liza of Lambeth was published in 1897, which was based on Maugham’s experiences as a doctor, especially those which acquired during the days he attended women in childbirth.
		In 1917, Maugham married his mistress Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo, who was a famous interior decorator who became well known especially for her trademark all-white rooms in the 1920s.
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	Amazon.com: A William Somerset Maugham Encyclopedia: Books: Samuel J. Rogal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful British writers of his time.
		At a 1962 auction, 35 of his paintings sold for nearly $1.5 million; bequests in his will totaled $280,000; his royalties during the last ten years of his life averaged $50,000 per year; and his Riviera estate, purchased in 1927 for $48,000, sold for $730,000 in 1967.
		The volume begins with a brief discussion of the importance of Maugham's life and work, followed by a detailed chronology of important biographical and literary events.
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	William Somerset Maugham
		William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20
		In 1890 he went abroad and studied at the University of Heidelberg from which he returned to England in 1892 and as his parents had destined him for the medical profession, he became a medical student at St Thomas’s hospital in London.
		Somerset Maugham has written 24 plays, 19 novels and a large number of short stories.
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	W. Somerset Maugham - Free Online Library
		At the age of 10, Maugham was orphaned and sent to England to live with his uncle, the vicar of Whitstable.
		Maugham lived in Paris for ten years as a struggling young author.
		Disguised as a reporter, Maugham worked for the British Intelligence in Russia during the Russian Revolution in 1917, but his stuttering and poor health hindered his career in this field.
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	William Somerset Maugham Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The British novelist William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), one of the most popular writers in English in the 20th century, is noted for his clarity of style and skill in storytelling.
		Born in Paris, on Jan. 25, 1874, where his father was solicitor to the British embassy, Somerset Maugham was orphaned by the time he was 8 years old.
		The titles of some of Maugham's early novels were familiar to a whole generation of readers: Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ashenden: or, The British Agent (1938), and Cakes and Ale: or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930).
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	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.
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	glbtq >> literature >> Maugham, William Somerset
		Maugham was an extremely productive writer who both mastered and gained popular success with novels, short stories, and plays.
		Maugham was born in Paris, the son of the solicitor and legal adviser to the British embassy.
		Maugham carefully avoided treating homosexual themes and depicting homosexual characters in his works, possibly because, as the American novelist, Glenway Wescott, pointed out, "Willie's generation lived in mortal terror of the Oscar Wilde trial."
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	William Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965. British author
		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.
		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.
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	William Somerset Maugham
		It is said that the modern spy story began with Maugham's Ashenden; or the British Agent (1928).
		Maugham believed that there is a true harmony in the contradictions of mankind and that the the normal is in reality the abnormal.
		George never forgave me. But Tom often asks me to excellent dinners in his charming house in Mayfair, and he occasionally borrows a trifle from me, that is merely from force of habit." Although he became world famous he was never knighted and his relationship with Gerald Haxton, his secretary, have been subject to speculations.
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	William Somerset Maugham
		The sixth and youngest son of a British solicitor was born in Paris, while his father was appointed by the British embassy.
		Like Chekhov Somerset Maugham was both a writer and a physician.
		In The Summing Up (1938), his autobiography, Somerset Maugham complaints of being 'in the very first row of the second-raters', reflecting the opinion of many critics of his time.
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	Somerset Maugham
		By the time he was ten, both William's parents were dead and he was sent to live with his uncle, the Rev. Henry Maugham, in Whitstable, Kent.
		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 had sexual relationships with both men and women and in 1915, Syrie Wellcome, the daughter of Dr.
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		William Somerset Maugham // Самая БОЛЬШАЯ база топиков
		William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century.
		His experience in treating the sick gave Maugham material for his first work Lisa of Lambeth(1897).
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