This century-old novel speaks to modern loneliness with raw honesty. 'Of Human Bondage' explores our deepest need to be seen, ...

Mention the writer W. Somerset Maugham and the name might evoke a fond recollection of his most popular novels, Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, and The Razor's Edge. Maugham's critical ...

In The Summing Up, published in 1938 when he was sixty-four years old, Somerset Maugham inveighed against literary obscurity and extolled the virtue of clarity (his own peculiar forte). His sentiments ...

In the same year, the English writer W. Somerset Maugham published “The Casuarina Tree,” a book of six short stories. Maugham was at the height of his success, as a great, and greatly ...

Police have questioned barrister Jolyon Maugham after he tweeted that Brianna Ghey's killers 'exchanged transphobic slurs' while the murder trial was still going on. Maugham, founder of the Good ...

Maugham had heard about the trial the first time he visited Malaya, with his secretary (and lover) ­Gerald Haxton, in 1921. Maugham made two tours to Malaya and in total spent about 10 months there.

One summer day in 1994, a young law student called Jo Maugham arrived at a central London office to cover for a secretary who’d called in sick. Smart in his suit and tie, he was surprised to be ...

EAST AND WEST—W. Somerset Mauglam—Doubleday, Doran ($3). For this collection of short stories, Author Maugham has selected the 30 he thinks his best. In a Preface that was not written to be ...

THEN AND NOW (278 pp.)—W. Somerset Maugham—Doubleday ($2.50). The current historical-novel bug has bitten even Somerset Maugham. With Then and Now he leaves the 19th and 20th Centuries for the ...

Only Belgian author Georges Simenon (1903-1989) has had more of his books filmed than English author William Somerset Maugham ...