SELECTED WORKS

(William Somerset Maugham)
(1874 - 1965)

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.

Novels

Liza of Lambeth (1897)
Mrs Craddock (1902)
The Magician (1908)
Of Human Bondage (1915)
The Moon and the Sixpence (1919)
The Painted Veil (1925)
Ashenden: Or the British Agent (1928)
Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930)
The Narrow Corner (1932)
Up at the Villa (1941)
The Razor's Edge (1944)
Then and Now (1946)
Theatre (1947)
Catalina (1948)

Collections

The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands (1921)
The Casuarina Tree: Six Stories (1928)
Ah King: Six Stories (1933)
Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories (1936)
The Mixture as Before (1940)
Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
Here and There: Short Shories (1948)
Quartet (1948)
Trio (1950)
Encore (1951)
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (1951)
Collected Short Stories (1969)
Collected Stories (2004)

Plays

A Man of Honour (1903)
The Circle (1921)
Our Betters (1923)
The Constant Wife (1927)

Non fiction

On a Chinese Screen (1922)
The Truth at Last (1924) (with Charles Hawtrey)
The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong (1930)
Don Fernando: or, Variations on some Spanish themes (1935)
The Summing Up (1938)
A Writer's Notebook (1949)
Vagrant Mood: Six Essays (1952)
The Partial View (1954)
The Travel Books of W. Somerset Maugham (1955)
Points of View (1958)
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

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