William Somerset Maugham CH (/mɔːm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born...
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked...
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Wellcome then publicly sued for divorce, naming Maugham as co-respondent. Syrie Wellcome and W. Somerset Maugham married in 1917 in New Jersey, although he...
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previous Robin Maugham, English writer, the only son of the previous Honor Earl, English painter, daughter of Frederic Maugham W. Somerset Maugham, English...
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The playwright, novelist and short-story writer W. Somerset Maugham, was a prolific author from the late 19th century until the 1960s. Most of his earliest...
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The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of...
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Elizabeth Hope, Baroness Glendevon (redirect from Elizabeth Mary Maugham)
December 1998) (née Wellcome, later Maugham, formerly Paravicini), was the only child of the English writer W. Somerset Maugham by his then-mistress Syrie Wellcome...
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was an English classical scholar. He was an associate and lover of Somerset Maugham, whom he met when they were both studying in Heidelberg in 1890. In...
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Rain (short story) (category Short stories by W. Somerset Maugham)
"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as "Miss Thompson" in the April 1921 issue of the American...
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long term secretary and lover of novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham. He and Maugham met at the outbreak of World War I when they both began serving...
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The Moon and Sixpence (category Novels by W. Somerset Maugham)
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing...
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secretary and companion of W. Somerset Maugham following the death of Gerald Haxton in 1944. He took up residence at Maugham's villa on the Riviera and...
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Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (originally known as Teller of Tales for the first three episodes) is an American anthology drama program. The series aired...
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The Razor's Edge (category Novels by W. Somerset Maugham)
The Razor's Edge is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World...
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Of Human Bondage (category Novels by W. Somerset Maugham)
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical...
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in many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s she starred steadily in productions both...
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including those of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. Somerset Maugham, and Jonathan Swift. "Call a spade a spade" or "call a spade a shovel"...
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The Razor's Edge (1946 film) (category Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham)
The Razor's Edge is a 1946 American drama film based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel of the same name. It stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne...
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The Unconquered (short story) (category Short stories by W. Somerset Maugham)
1943 short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was included in the 1947 collection of Maugham stories Creatures of Circumstance. It is...
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colonial society in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States it created. W. Somerset Maugham wrote a short story about the case which he subsequently turned into...
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experiments with the format, including a story written as an homage to W. Somerset Maugham, an author he greatly admired. Elements from the stories have been...
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Sadie Thompson refers to the main character from "Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham (1921). Several adaptations of that story exist with that title: Miss Sadie...
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Maugham was the second son of Robert Ormond Maugham, a solicitor, by his wife, Edith, daughter of Major Charles Snell. The author W. Somerset Maugham...
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The Letter (play) (category Plays by W. Somerset Maugham)
The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree. The story...
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isolated from the outside world. The Lotus Eater is a short story by W. Somerset Maugham about a man who goes to live a life of indolence on the island of...
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Camilla Paravicini, granddaughter of British writer W. Somerset Maugham, through Mary Elizabeth Maugham) and left four children and six grandchildren. Bluey...
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1970s such as The Saint, The Avengers, Blake's 7, The Tomorrow People, Somerset Maugham Hour, The Champions, Danger Man, The Chinese Puzzle, Are You Being...
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The Lotus Eater (category Short stories by W. Somerset Maugham)
author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories...
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Ten Novels and Their Authors (category Books by W. Somerset Maugham)
Their Authors is a 1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham. Maugham collects together what he considers to have been the ten greatest...
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historian and author W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), English author Somerset Maxwell, 8th Baron Farnham (1803–1884), MP for Cavan Somerset Maxwell, 10th Baron...
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