William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He spent some time at St. Thomas's Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915 and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Liza of Lambeth (1897)
Mrs Craddock (1902)
The Merry Go Round (1904)
The Explorer (1907)
The Magician (1908)
Of Human Bondage (1915)
The Moon and the Sixpence (1919)
The Painted Veil (1925)
Ashenden (1928)
Cakes and Ale (1930)
The Narrow Corner (1932)
Christmas Holiday (1939)
Up at the Villa (1941)
The Razor's Edge (1944)
Then and Now (1946)
Theatre (1947)
Catalina (1948)
Mrs Craddock (1902)
The Merry Go Round (1904)
The Explorer (1907)
The Magician (1908)
Of Human Bondage (1915)
The Moon and the Sixpence (1919)
The Painted Veil (1925)
Ashenden (1928)
Cakes and Ale (1930)
The Narrow Corner (1932)
Christmas Holiday (1939)
Up at the Villa (1941)
The Razor's Edge (1944)
Then and Now (1946)
Theatre (1947)
Catalina (1948)
Collections
The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)
The Casuarina Tree (1928)
Ah King (1933)
Cosmopolitans (1936)
The Mixture as Before (1940)
Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
Here and There (1948)
Quartet (1948)
Trio (1950)
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (1951)
Encore (1951)
Collected Short Stories (1969)
Collected Stories (2004)
The Casuarina Tree (1928)
Ah King (1933)
Cosmopolitans (1936)
The Mixture as Before (1940)
Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
Here and There (1948)
Quartet (1948)
Trio (1950)
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (1951)
Encore (1951)
Collected Short Stories (1969)
Collected Stories (2004)
Plays
Non fiction
The Land of the Blessed Virgin (1905)
On a Chinese Screen (1922)
The Truth at Last (1924) (with Charles Hawtrey)
The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930)
Don Fernando (1935)
The Summing Up (1938)
A Writer's Notebook (1949)
Vagrant Mood (1952)
The Partial View (1954)
The Travel Books (1955)
Points of View (1958)
Ten Novels and Their Authors (1963)
On Literature (1967)
The Skeptical Romancer (2009)
On a Chinese Screen (1922)
The Truth at Last (1924) (with Charles Hawtrey)
The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930)
Don Fernando (1935)
The Summing Up (1938)
A Writer's Notebook (1949)
Vagrant Mood (1952)
The Partial View (1954)
The Travel Books (1955)
Points of View (1958)
Ten Novels and Their Authors (1963)
On Literature (1967)
The Skeptical Romancer (2009)
Anthologies containing stories by W Somerset Maugham
The Black Cap (1927)
Shudders (1929)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Reading I've Liked (1946)
The Moonlight Traveller (1949)
Master Stories of the Twentieth Century (1963)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
The Ghouls Book 1 (1971)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Oriental Tales of Terror (1974)
Open at Your Own Risk (1975)
The 13th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1977)
The 15th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1979)
Black Water (1983)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Shudders (1929)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Reading I've Liked (1946)
The Moonlight Traveller (1949)
Master Stories of the Twentieth Century (1963)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
The Ghouls Book 1 (1971)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Oriental Tales of Terror (1974)
Open at Your Own Risk (1975)
The 13th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1977)
The 15th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1979)
Black Water (1983)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Short stories
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 | |||
The Magician [short story] (1908) | |||
Lord Mountdrago (1939) | |||
A Man from Glasgow (1947) |
Books about W Somerset Maugham
Salute to Somerset Maugham (1954) by Compton Mackenzie
Conversations with Willie (1978) by Robin Maugham
Conversations with Willie (1978) by Robin Maugham
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