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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, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson; Maugham instead trained as a doctor, although he never practised professionally, as his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, was published the same year he qualified. A year after his first novel was published Maugham began contributing to magazines and periodicals; initially these were short stories, but he also wrote opinion pieces, non-fictional and autobiographical work, and letters. Much of his non-fictional writing was published in book form, and covered a range of topics, including travel, current affairs, autobiography and belles lettres. Maugham was also editor on a number of works, which often included adding a preface or introductory chapter to the work of other writers. In 1903 his first play was performed, A Man of Honour at the Imperial Theatre, London. It was the first of many of his works that were produced for the stage, and with the later development of cinema, his novels and stories were also adapted for the big screen. By the time of his death in 1965 Maugham was one of the most commercially successful and gifted writers of the twentieth century, according to Bryan Connon, his biographer; The Times obituarist called Maugham "the most assured English writer of his time", and wrote that "no writer of his generation ... graced the world of English letters with more complete or more polished assurance". (en)
- Questa è un elenco delle opere di William Somerset Maugham, uno degli scrittori inglesi più famosi e prolifici del XX secolo. (it)
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- Estelle Winwood in the Broadway production of Too Many Husbands, US title of Home and Beauty (en)
- Billie Burke in the Broadway production of The Land of Promise (en)
- First edition cover of Liza of Lambeth, 1897 (en)
- Frontispiece for Of Human Bondage, 1915 (en)
- Frontispiece for The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921 (en)
- Mrs. Leslie Carter, Ernest Lawford and John Drew in the Broadway production of The Circle (en)
- Maugham in 1934 (en)
- Katharine Cornell, Robert Flemyng and John Emery in a 1953 staging of The Constant Wife (en)
- "An Irish Gentleman" in The Strand Magazine, September 1904 (en)
- Montage of photographs from the London production of Smith, starring Marie Lohr (en)
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- Questa è un elenco delle opere di William Somerset Maugham, uno degli scrittori inglesi più famosi e prolifici del XX secolo. (it)
- 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, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson; Maugham instead trained as a doctor, although he never practised professionally, as his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, was published the same year he qualified. (en)
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