WORKS

Male : Novelist and short story writer. Homosexual. Married Syrie Wellcome in 1917 but the couple lived apart & divorced in 1928. His companion for most of his life was his secretary, Gerald Haxton (1892-1944) who had been prosecuted, but acquitted of an act of gross indecency in a London hotel. They lived on the French Riviera from 1928. After Haxton's death he lived with Alan Searle (1904-85).

Nationality : English Place of Birth : British Embassy in Paris

Date of Birth : 1874 Date of Death : 1966 Age : 92

Other Work : Doctor, but never practised

Education : King's School, Canterbury, Heidelberg Univ, & St Thomas's, Lomndon (medicine but never practised)

1897-1900
Liza of Lambeth (1897 T Fisher Unwin) - 2000.
(1947 Heinemann) - Jubilee Edition, 1000 numbered and signed
The Making of a Saint (1898 Luce, Boston) (1898 T Fisher Unwin - 2500)
Orientations (1899 T Fisher Unwin) - 2000.

1901-1910
The Hero (1901 Hutchinson)
Mrs Craddock (1902)
A Man of Honour (1903 Chapman & Hall) - Play. 150 copies
The Merry-Go-Round (1904)
The Land of the Blessed Virgin : Sketches & Impressions in Andalusia (1905 )
The Bishop's Apron (1906 Chapman & Hall)
The Explorer (1908)
The Magician (1908)

1911-1920
Lady Frederick (1912) - Play
Jack Straw (1912) - Play
Mrs Dot (1912) - Play
Penelope (1912) - Play
The Explorer (1912) - Play
The Tenth Man (1913) - Play
[Filmed in 1936]
Smith : A Comedy in 4 Acts (1913) - 2000.- Play
The Land of Promise (1913) - Play
Landed Gentry (1913) - Play
Of Human Bondage (1915)
[Filmed in 1934, 1946 & 1964]
The Moon and Sixpence (1919) (1919 Doran)
[Filmed in 1943]
The Unknown (1920) - Play

1921-1930
The Circle (1921) - Play
The Trembling Of a Leaf (1921)
On a Chinese Screen (1922) - travel
Caesar's Wife (1922) - Play
East of Suez (1922) (1922 Doran)- Play
Our Betters (1923) - Play
[Filmed in 1933]
Home and Beauty (1923) - Play
[Filmed in 1940 as "Too Many Husbands"]
The Unattainable (1923) - Play
Loaves and Fishes (1924) - Play
The Painted Veil (1925 Doran) (1925)
[Filmed in 1934, and in 1957 as "The Seventh Sin"]
The Casuarina Tree : Six Stories (1926)
The Constant Wife (1927) - Play
The Letter (1927) - Play
[Filmed in 1929 & 1940]
The Sacred Flame (1928) (1928 Doubleday Doran) - Play
Ashenden, or The British Agent (1928) (1928 Doubleday Doran)
[Filmed in 1936 as "The Secret Agent"]
Cakes and Ale, or the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930)
The Gentleman in the Parlour : A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong (1930) (1930 US)
The Breadwinner (1930) (1931 Doubleday Doran) - Play

1931-1940
Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (1931)
The Narrow Corner (1932)
[Filmed in 1933 &, in 1936 as "Isle of Fury"]
The Book Bag (1932 G Orioli, Florence) - 725 Signed
For Service Rendered (1932) - Play
Sheppey (1933) - Play
Ah King (1933)
Don Fernando, or Variations on Some Spanish Themes (1935) - travel. 175 signed
Cosmopolitans (1936)
Theatre : A Novel (1937)
[Filmed in 1962 as "Adorable Julia" & again in 2004 as "Being Julia"]
The Summing Up (1938) - autobiography
Of Human Bondage (1938 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by John Sloan
Christmas Holiday (1939)
[Filmed in 1944]
Princess September and the Nightingale (1939 Oxford) - Richard C Jones
(1969 HBW, NY) (1970 Collins) - Jacqueline Ayer
The Mixture as Before (1940)
France at War (1940) (1940 Doubleday Doran)
Books and You (1940) - essays

1941-1950
Strictly Personal (1941 Doubleday - 515 signed) (1942) - auto
Up at the Villa (1941)
[Filmed in 2000]
The Razor's Edge (1944) (1944 Doubleday Doran)
[Filmed in 1946 & 1984]
Then and Now (1945) (1946 Doubleday)
Creatures of Circumstance (1947) (1947 Doubleday)
Quartet (1948)
Here and There (1948)
Catalina : A Romance (1948)
A Writer's Notebook (1949) - belles lettres. 1000 signed
Trio (1950)
[Filmed in 1950]

After 1951
The Complete Short Stories (1951) - 3 vols.
The Writer's Point of View (1951 for the National Book League by CUP) - essays. 24pp
The Vagrant Mood : Six Essays (1952)
Encore : Three Stories (1952)
The Noble Spaniard (1953 Evans Bros) - Play
Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954) - essays
Points of View (1958)
Purely for My Pleasure (1962 Heinemann) (1963 NY)

READING
Richard Aldington : W Somerset Maugham (1939 US)
Raymond Toole Stott : A Bibliography of the Works of W Somerset Maugham
(1956 B Rota, London) (1973 Kaye & Ward)
Frederic Raphael : Somerset Maugham and His World (1976 Thames & Hudson)
Robert Calder : Willie (1989 Heinemann)
Bryon Connon : Somerset Maugham & the Maugham Dynasty (1997 Sinclair Stevenson)

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