"The Summing Up." Maugham confidently asserted that most novels he selects would find a place on anyone's top ten list. This article explores Maugham's selected
By the late 1914, Maugham had become famous and had published as many as ten plays and ten novels. With the onset of the World War I, he joined the British Red Cross's "Literary Ambulance Drivers", with other 23 popular writers including E. E. Cummings and Ernest Hemingway. He continue...
“Lisa of Lambeth”, published in 1897 his amazing career started. Novels, playwrites and short stories followed and made him be the“ highest paid author in the world in the 1930s. ”("W(illiam) Somerset Maugham", p.1). During World War I Somerset Maugham worked as a secret agent ...
In his later work Maugham limited himself primarily to essays; The Art of Fiction: An Introduction to Ten Novels and Their Authors (1955) is representative. He was one of the most successful writers in the world during much of his lifetime, but by the early years of the 21st cent. his...
Maugham later wrote in Summing Up (1938): "My parents died when I was so young, my mother when I was eight, my father when I was ten, that I know little of them but from hearsay...He was forty when he married my mother, who was more than twenty years younger. She was a very...
William Somerset Maugham毛姆简介 1874-1965 小说:Liza of Lambeth兰贝思的莉莎;Of Human Bondage人类枷锁;Cakes and Ale寻欢作乐;The Moon and Six Pence月亮与六便士短篇小说:Complete Short Stories短篇小说集剧本:Smith ;The Circle;Our Betters位居我们之上的人们 in full? William Somerset Maugham ? born ...
Carey wanted and had remained undiscovered for ten years. Philip began to read Murger’s fascinating, ill-written, absurd masterpiece, and fell at once under its spell. His soul danced with joy at that picture of starvation which is so good-humoured, of squalor which is so picturesque, of...
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When contemplating the greatest novels, the question often arises: "What constitutes the best?" This debate has sparked countless discussions, echoing the sentiment that every reader perceives literature through their unique lens. Renowned author W. Somerset Maugham approached this very dilemma in his...