W. Somerset Maugham

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1897
  • Latest Book:
    October 2017
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Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Liza of Lambeth

    Maugham's first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it....

  • The Making of a Saint

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    The Making Of A Saint : A Romance Of Mediaeval Italy. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high...

  • Mrs. Craddock

    “There is something bracing about the sincerity of [Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well ...

  • The Merry-Go-Round

    Somerset Maugham was one of the world's most prolific and popular authors. He wrote with great facility and at one time had four plays running simultaneously in four different London theaters.

    He was trained as a doctor, and he must have been good...

  • The Explorer

    The Explorer was written by W. Somerset Maugham and first published in 1908. A story of the proud Allertons whose fortune has been squandered, and whose three-hundred-year estate Hamlyn's Purlieu stands to be lost to the family. Lucy and George Aller...

  • The Magician

    The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham's most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siècle Paris, Arthur an...

  • Of Human Bondage

    Generally agreed as Maugham’s literary masterpiece, “Of Human Bondage” is the semi-autobiographical tale of Philip Carey. First published in 1915, the novel follows the life of Philip, who suffers from the disability of a clubbed foot, from boy...

  • The Moon and Sixpence

    Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius. Charles Strickland abandons his family for Paris and Tahiti to paint. His decisio...

  • Rain and Other South Sea Stories

    While most of W. Somerset Maugham's novels achieved high commercial sales and critical acclaim at the turn of the 20th century, Maugham was also an accomplished short story writer. His stories compiled in "Rain and Other South Sea Stories"...



  • Trembling of a Leaf


    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. T...

  • On a Chinese Screen

    Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the cou...

  • Painted Veil

    Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of th...

  • Ashenden, Or, the British Agent

    A collection of stories featuring Ashenden--a writer drawn into the war through undercover intelligence--reflects the author's experiences in the Intelligence Department during World War I. (General Fiction)....

  • Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard

    Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to w...

  • The Narrow Corner

    Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers. Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichol...

  • The Summing Up

    THE SUMMING UP represents Maugham's life and philosophy in his own words. It is autobiographical in nature, though most of the work is concerned with Maugham's unique and fascinating opinions on the theatre, writing, metaphysics and the interesting p...

  • Christmas Holiday

    For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid. It should have been a lark, but on his first night Charley meets a woman whose story will forever change his life. For Lydia has seen tragedy. The Russian Revolutio...

  • Up at the Villa

    Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects).In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confront...

  • The Razor's Edge

    Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, a...



  • Creatures of Circumstance

    This collection of short stories, written (with one exception) shortly after the close of World War I, exploited the taste of the time by displaying the changing morality of the 20th century. Among the stories included are The Colonel's Lady, Flotsam...

  • Theatre

    In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham"the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa"introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the great...

  • Catalina

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    Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the Blessed Virgin as though she were her own mother. But ...

  • Short Stories

    Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as 'Rain', 'The Letter', 'The Vessel of Wrath' and 'The Alien Corn', Maugham illustrates his wry perceptio...

  • Vagrant Mood

    The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of ...

  • Collected Short Stories: Volume 2

    The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam," "The Man Wi...

  • The Hero

    Five years change a man, and when they have been spent in the bush fighting Boers, the changes are profound. So when Jamie Parson comes home with captain's pips and a Victoria Cross, he is no longer the boy he was. But not to his parents and Mary, hi...

  • Collected Stories

    From one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories.Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached ...

  • Far Eastern Tales

  • The Great Exotic Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham

    This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers.From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago Pago, in Samoa or Malaya or on a Tah...



  • The Skeptical Romancer

    W. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer maps out a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative pieces that...

  • Orientations

    The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian -- A Bad Example -- De Amicitia -- Faith -- The Choice of Amyntas -- Daisy --...

  • A Bad Example

    James Clinton was a clerk in the important firm of Haynes, Bryan & Co., and he held in it an important position. He was the very essence of respectability, and he earned one hundred and fifty-six pounds per annum. James Clinton believed in the Church...

  • The Choice of Amyntas

    Often enough the lover of cities tires of their unceasing noise; the din of the traffic buzzes perpetually in his ears, and even in the silences of night he hears the footfalls on the pavement, the dull stamping of horses, the screeching of wheels; t...

  • Faith

    The moon shone fitfully through the clouds on to the weary face of Brother Jasper kneeling in his cell. His hands were fervently clasped, uplifted to the crucifix that hung on the bare wall, and he was praying, praying as he had never prayed before. ...

  • The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian

    Along a stony road we walked into the dark night, the wind blowing cold and bitter, and the clouds chasing one another across the sky. In front, I could see nothing but the porter hurrying along, bent down under the weight of my bag, and the wind ble...

  • Before the Party

    W. Somerset Maugham’s “Before the Party” is a novelette first published in the December 1922 edition of “Nash’s Magazine.” After the death of her husband, an alcoholic colonial administrator in Borneo, Millicent returns to England to live...

  • Lady Frederick

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • A Man of Honour

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Plays

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....



  • The Bishop's Apron

    Canon Spratte is an important man and most of all in his own mind. He is the son of a Lord Chancellor of England, which alone should insure him the position to which he knows he is entitled. He deserves to be the next Bishop of Sheffield. "Spratte ne...

  • East of Suez

    A seven scene play by the man behind Of Human Bondage....

  • The Canadian

    Nora opened her eyes to an unaccustomed consciousness of well-being. She was dimly aware that it had its origin in something deeper than mere physical comfort; but for the moment, in that state between sleeping and wakening, which still held her, it ...

  • The Land of Promise

    THE LAND OF PROMISE is a novelized version of Somerset Maugham's play. Set in Canada, it concerns the harsh life of newly-arrived immigrants trying to make their way on the western prairies. She was dimly aware that it had its origin in something dee...

  • Best Short Stories

    "Ten of W. Somerset Maugham''s wonderful stories in one gorgeous collector''s volume.Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risqu tales of an old, dear and rather wicked friend. You turn ...

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W. Somerset Maugham has published 44 books.

W. Somerset Maugham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Best Short Stories, was published in October 2017.

The first book by W. Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, was published in January 1897.

No. W. Somerset Maugham does not write books in series.
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