Somerset Maugham in 1934 William Somerset Maugham ( Parijs, 25 januari 1874 SaintJeanCapFerrat bij Nice, 16 december 1965 ) was een in Frankrijk geboren Brit, schrijver van een groot aantal romans, verhalenbundels, toneelstukken, reisverhalen en essays. William Somerset Maugham wljm smst mm, CH (Pars, 25 de enero de 1874Niza, 16 de diciembre de 1965) fue un escritor britnico, autor de novelas, ensayos, cuentos y obras de teatro. Durante la dcada de 1930 fue considerado el escritor ms popular y mejor pagado del mundo. A lo largo de 60 aos escribi ms de 100 relatos y 21 novelas, adems de gran nmero de. Somerset Maugham It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. Somerset Maugham Este artigo ou seco contm fontes no fim do texto, mas que no so citadas no corpo do artigo, o que compromete a confiabilidade das informaes. (desde junho de 2012) Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan Biografi. Somerset Maugham fddes i Paris, fick sin skolutbildning i Canterbury och Heidelberg och studerade sedan medicin i London. Under frsta vrldskriget var han hemlig agent i Ryssland; hans spionroman Ashenden or The British Agent (1928) bygger p denna erfarenhet. Maugham skrev ofta om lite udda livsden och situationer i exotisk milj. With Kim Kee Lim, Ahmad Jamal, Ken Nazarin, Eileen Atkins. Somerset Maugham, Writer: Quartet. Popular British novelist, playwright, shortstory writer and the highestpaid author in the world in the 1930s, Somerset Maugham graduated in 1897 from St. Thomas' Medical School and qualified as a doctor, but abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and plays. During World War I he worked as a secret agent and in 1928 settled in. Somerset Maugham, Collected Stories, Everyman's Library, 2004 W. Somerset Maugham, Les Nouvelles compltes, prface de Robert Merle, ditions Omnibus, 1992 Notes [. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Somerset Maughamthe author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa introduces us to Julia Lambert Lo stesso argomento in dettaglio: Opere di W. Trasposizioni cinematografiche [ modifica modifica wikitesto The Explorer di George Melford ( 1915 ), tratto da The Explorer (1908), la prima trasposizione cinematografica di un romanzo di Maugham. Somerset Maugham was the master of the short, concise novel and he could convey relationships, greed and ambition with a startling reality. The remote locations of the quietly magnificent yet decaying British Empire offered him beautiful cavasses on which to write his stories and plays. Somerset Maugham (1874 1965) William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 16 December 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. Somerset Maugham Quotes at BrainyQuote. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright, Born January 25, 1874. This is a video created for the occasion of the 100th anniversary of W. Somerset Maughams most wellknown book, Of Human Bondage. William Somerset Maugham CH ( m m MAWM; 25 January 1874 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highestpaid author during the 1930s. [1 After losing both his parents by the age of 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was. Somerset Maugham, Nice, France. 73, 924 likes 95 talking about this. Somerset Maugham is the bestselling author of such classic novele as OF HUMAN Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories (London: Heinemann, 1936). This collection contains twentynine short stories written between; as the title states, they are very short. Maugham explains in the preface that they are stories previously published in the magazine Cosmopolitan, whose editor at that time, Ray Long, liked on a Chinese. Collections relating to English literature and British theatre Literary Archives, and Silvia Gallotti, Manuscripts Cataloguer. The Michael Palin Archive, generously donated to the British Library by Michael Palin in 2017, is now available for consultation in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Somerset Maugham: William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which so In Theatre, W. Somerset Maughamthe author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villaintroduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her fortysix years. 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Somerset Maugham's early plays, Penelope. A blog about everything Maugham, from his works to reviews of articles and books on him and links to free ebooks. Somerset Maugham ( ) Rain (1921) It was nearly bedtime and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight. Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. Sotheby Co: Somerset Maugham Collection, Catalouge, the Collection of Impressionist and Modern Pictures formed by W. Somerset Maugham over the last fifty years. Day of Sale Tuesday 10 April 1962; Weblinks Literatur von und ber William. Template: Infobox Writer William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. Contents[show Childhood Maugham, Somerset (William Somerset Maugham) (mm), , English writer, b. 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William Boyd has nothing but praise for Selina Hastings's monumental and scholarly biography of W Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham, English novelist, playwright, and shortstory writer whose work is characterized by a clear unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human nature. Maugham was orphaned at the age of 10; he was brought up by an uncle and educated at Kings School. Somerset Maugham (1874 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story. I was at Pagan, in Burma, and from there I took the steamer to Mandalay, but a couple of days before I got there, when the boat tied up for the night at a riverside village, I made up my mind to go ashore. The skipper told me that there was a. Father: Robert Ormond Maugham (solicitor to British Embassy) Boyfriend: Gerald Haxton (lovers during WWI and for the following 30 years) Wife: Syrie Wellcome (m. 1927, 1 child, from adulterous affair prior to marriage) Zitate und Sprche von William Somerset Maugham Von einer Frau kann man alles erfahren, wenn man keine Fragen stellt. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Collected short stories, The Razor's Edge, The Magician, Cakes and Ale or The skeleton in the cupboard, Liza of Lambeth, The summing up Maugham, William Somerset Born Jan. The son of a lawyer for the British Embassy in France, Maugham received a medical education. His practice in a poor district in London provided the material for his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897). Raymond Mander e Joe Michenson, The Artist and the Theatre The story of the paintings collected and presented to the National Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham Violet Hammersley, Letters from Madame de Sevigne ( 1955 ) [66 THE VERGER. There had been a christening that afternoon at St. Peter's, Neville Square, and Albert Edward Foreman still wore his verger's gown. Somerset Maugham Collection, p. The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned..