SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Life. By Jeffrey Meyers. Knopf, 349 pp. $30. Who better to write a biography of the versatile, prolific and long-lived William Somerset Maugham than Jeffrey Meyers, himself an ...

Stand by your man: Rose Leslie and Luke Norris in The Constant Wife - Johan Persson The Constant Wife, Somerset Maugham’s neglected 1926 comedy about a marriage rendered wretched by infidelity might ...

Casual readers of this page might say, reading the title of this biography, "Oh, no! Not another 'Secret Lives' caper of some English creep." Well, Somerset Maugham was unusual. Should you wish to ...

He Picks up the Oddments and Remainders of Life Ever since I read Of Human Bondage I have wanted to meet W. Somerset Maugham. Here is a man with bitter truth in his work, with brilliance in his ...

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings Random House, 640 pp., $35 Once upon a time a serious novelist could be very, very popular. Then something came unstuck, and now the appearance ...

AH KING—Somerset Maugham—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Somerset Maugham is the fiction editor’s Santa Claus. His stones are intelligent but not highbrow, well-made but not wooden, readable but not ...

EXCLUSIVE: The company that holds rights to the literary estates of Langston Hughes and Evelyn Waugh is heading on a West Coast charm offensive and has snapped up the estate of Somerset Maugham.

When W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM was asked to select and edit the ten best novels in world literature, he chose three novels from France, two from Russia, one from America, and four from England, and for each ...

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