![]() ![]() They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949). He became a Companion of Honour in 1954. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. This appears to be a reprint of the two-volume edition of Maugham's short stories originally published by Doubleday under the separate titles East and West (Vol. 4.63 Rating details 16 ratings 0 reviews. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. The World Over: Collected Short Stories, Volume 1. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) lived in Paris until he was ten. ![]()
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