W. Somerset Maugham
Ten Novels And Their Authors
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Maughams' inimitable guide to some of the literary masters; Austen, Fielding, Balzac, Stendal, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, Bronte, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy
Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great nov... Buy or find out more →
The Painted Veil
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. 'I've got all the proof necessary.'
Kitty Fane is the bea... Buy or find out more →
Short Stories
$12.95 – Paperback book / Minerva
The acknowledged master of the short story, the full range of Somerset Maugham's art is represented in this collection. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a... Buy or find out more →
The Narrow Corner
$26.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A tense potboiler set on an exotic Pacific island by one of the 20th century's bestselling authors
All this happened a good many years ago.
This is the disclaiming first chapter of this sea tale par excellence which evol... Buy or find out more →
Points Of View
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Another wide-ranging volume of essays from the prose master
Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian hol... Buy or find out more →
Christmas Holiday
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Published before the outbreak of war in 1939, a warning to the
complacent, British middle-class of the upheavals taking place on
the Continent.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Buy or find out more →
Then And Now
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Three months in the career of the crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers. Buy or find out more →
The Merry-Go-Round
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or w... Buy or find out more →
Mrs Craddock
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A young woman, carried away by passion, sees a chance to escape a dull life and to experience true love. But she discovers that little in her marriage to the dutiful and sensible Edward meets her expectations. And as pas... Buy or find out more →
Liza Of Lambeth
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she has found an adoring if conventional beau in Tom. When she meets Jim Blakeston, a married man new to... Buy or find out more →
The Vulture Of Somerset
$14.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Evil Uncle Silas is dead, but his spirit still haunts Sommerset - even in death he will not let go of his nephew and nieces.
Milo is troubled by nightmares of the Uncle who tried to steal his body and a dark secret he mu... Buy or find out more →
On A Chinese Screen
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or w... Buy or find out more →
Don Fernando
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Enchanted by the landscape and people of Spain,Maugham had long resolved to wirte a picaresque novel about the country. Instead, he wrote a living commentary assessing a great people in their greatest hour. 'Don Fernando... Buy or find out more →
The Summing Up
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A rare glimpse into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic of 20th century authors
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when M... Buy or find out more →
Ashenden
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A celebrated writer by the time war broke out in 1914, Maugham has the perfect cover for living in Switzerlan d. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many european countries, he was despatched by the Secret Service to Lu... Buy or find out more →
The Gentleman In The Parlour
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Best Known for his novels and plays, Somerset Maugham also produced the most delightfully engaging and absorbing non-fiction, of which The Gentleman in the Parlour is a prime example. First published in 1935 it is the ac... Buy or find out more →
The Moon And Sixpence
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE tells the story of Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker who abandons his wife and children for Prais and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst... Buy or find out more →
Cakes And Ale
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When CAKES AND ALE was first published in 1930, it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they saw in its pages recognisable portraits of literary figures now no more. The tumult and the shouting soon ... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels - several of w... Buy or find out more →
Collected Stories
$35.95 – Hardcover book / Everymans Library
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories. Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and p... Buy or find out more →
Cakes And Ale
$29.95 – Paperback book / Pantheon
Cakes and Aleis a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist... Buy or find out more →
The Painted Veil
$21.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. "I've got all the proof necessary."
Kitty Fane is the bea... Buy or find out more →
Of Human Bondage
$8.95 – Paperback book / Signet
The hero is Philip Carey, a sensitive and talented orphan with a clubfoot who is raised by an uncaring aunt and uncle. It is the story of Philip's struggle for independence and his pursuit of his art. Often autobiographi... Buy or find out more →
Up At The Villa
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Set in a beautiful villa high in the hills above Florence, this seductive and moving novel reveals the full power of desperate love. Mary Panton ignores her desires in the calm of the villa as she contemplates her lovele... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham
$69.99 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
'Somerset Maugham? If anybody ever sold their soul to the devil, he did, and with sizzling relish!' Stephen Tennant, in a letter to Hugo Vickers For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874--1965) was one of the most fa... Buy or find out more →
The Painted Veil
$22.95$10.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. "I've got all the proof necessary."
Kitty Fane is the bea... Buy or find out more →
Theatre
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
InTheatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novelsOf Human BondageandUp at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. ... Buy or find out more →
Writer's Notebook
$0.00 – Paperback book / Vintage
Filled with keen observations, autobiographical notes, and the seeds of many of Maugham's greatest works,A Writer's Notebookis a unique and exhilarating look into a great writer's mind at work. From nearly five deca... Buy or find out more →
Of Human Bondage
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
OF HUMAN BONDAGE is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It tells the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief ... Buy or find out more →
The Narrow Corner
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner
is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's
finest writers.
Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders
is o... Buy or find out more →
The Magician
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham’s most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable fo... Buy or find out more →
More Far Eastern Tales
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master
From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm ... Buy or find out more →
Collected Short Stories Volume 1
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prost... Buy or find out more →
Collected Short Stories Volume 4
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The final collection of Maugham's marvellous stories
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships.
Brilliant tal... Buy or find out more →
Collected Short Stories Volume 2
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The second collection of Maugham's celebrated stories
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old wom... Buy or find out more →
Collected Short Stories Volume 3
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The third collection of Maugham's famous short stories.
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in W... Buy or find out more →
The Razor's Edge
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth ... Buy or find out more →