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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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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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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The Painted Veil (2006 film) (category Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham)
by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and...
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The Painted Veil may refer to: The Painted Veil (novel), by W. Somerset Maugham The Painted Veil (1934 film), directed by Ryszard Bolesławski The Painted...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Andrews and William Jacobs from the 1932 novel The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham. Warners had filmed the tale under its original title just three...
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Our Betters (category Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham)
Harry Wagstaff Gribble is based on the 1917 play of the same title by Somerset Maugham. Tommy Atkins worked as assistant director, while the sets were designed...
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Of Human Bondage (1946 film) (category Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham)
Eleanor Parker and Alexis Smith. The second screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel, this Warner Bros. sanitized version was written by Catherine...
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Cakes and Ale (category Novels by W. Somerset Maugham)
Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character...
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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 (1964 film) (category Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham)
third screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel, was written by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Somerset Maugham. After two unsuccessful years...
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a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The Razor's Edge may also refer to: The Razor's Edge (1946 film), a film adaptation of Maugham's novel, starring...
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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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Of Human Bondage (1934 film) (category Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham)
screenplay by Lester Cohen is based on the 1915 novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. Sensitive, club-footed artist Philip Carey is a Briton who has been...
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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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Theatre (novel) (category Novels by W. Somerset Maugham)
Theatre is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1937 by William Heinemann (UK) and Doubleday Doran (US). The novel describes...
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The Painted Veil (novel) (category Novels by W. Somerset Maugham)
The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift...
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