BOOKS by W Somerset Maugham

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1	Razor's Edge more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Maugham traces the development of six friendships in Paris and London, evoking the sense of loss, despair, and unmoored personalities just after wartime. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Of Human Bondage more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Philip Carey is an orphan, reared by his aunt and uncle, handicapped by his club foot. When he reaches the age of eighteen, he sets out in the world--first to study at Heidelberg, then to try an accounting job, then trying to launch an artistic career. Finally he returns to London to train as a doctor, and meets Mildred, a young woman with whom he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Painted Veil more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Kitty Fane has an affair, and when her husband, a bacteriologist, finds out, he forces her to go with him to a cholera epidemic in the hopes that she will contract the disease and die. Once she is surrounded by all the desolation and death, Kitty begins to come to self-realization, and also learns how to love her husband. Unfortunately for both of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Moon & Sixpence more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Based on the life of Paul Gaugin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE chronicles the life of Charles Strickland, a middle-class stockbroker who flees from his London life and family, first to Paris and then to a distant Pacific island. The narrator of the story, a writer, tracks down Strickland as a favor to his wife, a society woman known for her interest in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ashenden, Or, the British Agent more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Maugham's sole spy novel, about an agent with a conscience, remains a surprisingly satisfying classic of the genre. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Summing Up more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist A memoir of a writing life, by playwright, novelist and short story writer Somerset Maugham. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Maugham: Collected Short Stories: Volume 4 more books like this by W. Somerset Maugham add to wishlist see all copies from $7.87! new only from $8.50! \| SVS
8	Cakes & Ale more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Edward Driffield is a writer idolized by London's literati. His second wife commissions a second-rate popular novelist named Roy Kear to write Driffield's biography. When Kear explores Driffield's past, however, he finds out about Rosie, Driffield's first wife--who is not nearly so respectable as the woman who commissioned the biography, but who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Christmas Holiday more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist On a Christmas trip to Paris after the Great War, Charley Mason meets a tragically self-destructive Russian woman whose world fell apart after the revolution of 1917. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Ashenden more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in ASHENDEN are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.77! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Gentleman in the Parlour more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist 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 account of a journey the author took from Rangoon to Haiphong. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $17.55! \| first editions
12 view cover	Up at the Villa more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist In UP AT THE VILLA, a young Englishwoman living in an Italian village has barely begun to recover from the death of her husband when she receives marriage proposals from two very different Italian men. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Liza of Lambeth more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Somerset Maugham's first novel concerns a young woman who is struggling to get out of her impoverished South London life. She begins an affair with Jim, who is married and has children of his own, but finds that, as wasted and sordid as her community is, it nevertheless has certain standards and rules, and she has violated them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Then and Now more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| first editions
15 view cover	Maugham: Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Cakes and ale ; [and], The painted veil ; [and], Liza of Lambeth ; [and], The razor's edge ; [and], Theatre ; [and], The moon and sixpence more books like this by W. Somerset Maugham add to wishlist see all copies from $2.52!
17 view cover	Writer's Notebook more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating admission into this great writer's workshop. see all copies from $3.74! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Maugham: Collected Short Stories: Volume 3 more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist see all copies from $5.95! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Maugham: Collected Short Stories: Volume 2 by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| SVS
20 view cover	Explorer more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Long unavailable to reading audiences, THE EXPLORER is one of his early acclaimed novels set at the height of the British Empire. An engaging tale of hardship and self-sacrifice, this novel takes us from England to Africa where the success of an expedition becomes the one means to redeem the honor of a family name that has been unconscionably ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.64! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Points of View more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist The essays in this volume, the last that Somerset Maugham published, include an appreciation of Goethe's novels, an encounter with an Indian holy man, an evaluation of the plain prose of Dr Tillotson, criticism of three journalists, and a considered analysis of the short story. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Narrow Corner more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Dr. Saunders is an eye doctor, the best in the East. He travels by boat from the Maylay Archipelago with Captain Nichols--who has been paid to take Fred Blake, a young Australian, away for a while. But when they dock at an East Indian island, Fred is seduced into disastrous circumstances. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.14! \| first editions
23 view cover	Spirit: Stallion on the Cimarron (Picture Book) more books like this by David Clement-Davies, W Somerset Maugham (Illustrator) add to wishlist A picture book adaptation of the 2002 animated film SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from $14.57! new only from $65.95!
24 view cover	On a Chinese screen more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature: ON A CHINESE SCREEN is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. A series of acute and finely crafted sketches of ... see all copies from $3.21! new only from $10.03! \| first editions \| SVS
25	The complete short stories of W.Somerset Maugham. more books like this by W. Somerset Maugham add to wishlist see all copies from $6.62! new only from $145.00! \| first editions

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