W. Somerset Maugham

W. 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.

Selected Bibliography

Novels and short story collections

• Liza of Lambeth (1897)
• The Making of a Saint (1898)
• Orientations (1899)
• Mrs Craddock (1902)
• The Merry-go-round (1904)
• The Magician (1908)
• Of Human Bondage (1915)
• The Moon and Sixpence (1919)
• The Painted Veil (1925)
• ' (1928) -- short stories
• ' (1930)
• The Narrow Corner (1932)
• Up at the Villa (1941)
• The Hour Before Dawn (1942)
• The Razor's Edge (1943)
• Then and Now (1946)
• Theatre (1947)
• Catalina (1948)

Plays

• A Man of Honour (1903)
• Lady Frederick (1907)
• The Circle (1921)
• Our Betters (1923)
• The Constant Wife (1927)
• The Sacred Flame (1928)
• The Breadwinner (1930)
• The Caesar's Wife

Non-Fiction

• On a Chinese Screen (1922)
• The Truth at Last (1924) (in collaboration with Charles Hawtrey)
• ' (1930)
• ' (1935)
• The Summing Up (1938)
• A Writer's Notebook (1949)
• ' (1952)
• The Partial View (1954)
• The Travel Books of W. Somerset Maugham (1955)
• Points of View (1958)
• Looking Back (1962)
• Ten Novels and Their Authors (1963)
• Essays on Literature (1967)

Short Stories

• "The Magician" (1908)
• "Lord Mountdrago" (1939)
• "A Man from Glasgow" (1947)
• "Before the Party"
• "The End of the Flight"
• "The Facts of Life"
• "Footprints in the Jungle"
• "Honolulu"
• "An Official Position"
• "The Outstation"
• "The Taipan"
• "The Treasure"
• "Rain"
• "Three fat women from Antibes"
• "Salvatore"
• "The Vessel of Wrath"

Short story collections

• The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)
• The Lotus Eater (1945)

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.

Related Topics:
Charles Hawtrey - 1858 - 1923 - 1924

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Maugham on film

• The Beachcomber (1958), based on the novella The Vessel of Wrath; not to be confused with the 1938 film
• Being Julia (2004), based on the 1937 novella Theatre, with Annette Bening
• Encore (1952) dramatizes three Maugham short stories
• Of Human Bondage (1934) starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis
• Of Human Bondage (1946) starring Eleanor Parker
• Of Human Bondage (1964) starring Laurence Harvey and Kim Novak
• The Razor's Edge (1946) starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
• The Razor's Edge (1984) starring Bill Murray
• Sadie Thompson (1928), a silent movie starring Gloria Swanson based on "Rain", a 1921 short story from The Trembing of a Leaf (and several remakes)
• Up at the Villa (2000), based on the 1941 novella, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, directed by Philip Haas
• The Vessel of Wrath (1938), based on the novella of the same name, starring Charles Laughton; released in the USA as The Beachcomber

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