W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
Autor(a) de Of Human Bondage
About the Author
Writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874. He attended St. Thomas's Medical School in London. A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short mostrar mais stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por W. Somerset Maugham
Cakes and Ale / The Painted Veil / Liza of Lambeth / The Razor's Edge / Theatre / The Moon and Sixpence (1979) 98 exemplares
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Vol. 2 [II]): The Letter and Other Stories (1967) 24 exemplares
Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works by… (2015) 23 exemplares
Maugham Plays: Two: For Services Rendered, The Letter, Home and Beauty, and Lady Frederick (World Classics) (Vol 2) (1991) 22 exemplares
The Great Novels & Short Stories of Somerset Maugham: Three Novels and Five Shor (2014) 18 exemplares
Far and Wide: Nine Novels by W. Somerset Maugham. Selected by the Author. Volume One (1951) 17 exemplares
Delphi Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 5) (2017) 14 exemplares
Miraaž : valimik lühijutte 14 exemplares
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham IV. The Human Element and Other Stories (1967) 12 exemplares
The Selected Novels Of W. Somerset Maugham Vol II: The Moon and Sixpence; The Narrow Corner; The Painted Veil (1953) 12 exemplares
The Collected Plays of Somerset Maugham, Vol. 2 Our Betters, The Unattainable, Home and Beauty, The (1949) 11 exemplares
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: III. The Book-Bag & Other Stories (1967) 9 exemplares
Far and Wide (Liza of Lambeth; Cakes and Ale; Theatre; The Moon and Sixpence; The Narrow Corner, Volume 1) 9 exemplares
THE SELECTED NOVELS OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM VOLUME ONE: LIZA OF LAMBETH; CAKES AND ALE; THEATRE (1953) 9 exemplares
Az oroszlánbőr : elbeszélések 7 exemplares
[TO DO: Research best book] 7 exemplares
The Letter, with two other plays, The Breadwinner, Sheppey (Famous Plays Series) (1952) 7 exemplares
Woman of the World [Theatre] 6 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham 6 exemplares
Inte bara för nöjes skull : noveller 6 exemplares
The Unconquered 6 exemplares
Romans, tome 2 : L'Envoûté - La Passe dangereuse - La Ronde de l'amour - Le Fugitif - La Comédienne - Le Magicien (1996) 5 exemplares
Obras completas. Tomo III 4 exemplares
Mr. Know-All 4 exemplares
Veitsen terällä 2 4 exemplares
The Door of Opportunity 4 exemplares
Elämän kahle. 3 nide [luvut 82-122] 4 exemplares
Veitsen terällä 1 nide 4 exemplares
Mina favoritnoveller 4 exemplares
Red 4 exemplares
The Verger 4 exemplares
Looking Back 4 exemplares
The Treasure 4 exemplares
Egy távoli gyarmaton 4 exemplares
Jane: Erzählungen 4 exemplares
A Man From Glasgow 4 exemplares
The bum 3 exemplares
Cuentos 3 exemplares
GREAT SHORT STORIES: The Book Bag; Guilty; The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (Quick Reader 106) (1945) 3 exemplares
Superbia 3 exemplares
The Hairless Mexican [short story] 3 exemplares
Der eigenartige Ehrbegriff des Herrn Sebastian und sechzehn andere eigenartige Geschichten. Aus d. Englischen v.… (1969) 3 exemplares
Tales of East and West 3 exemplares
NOVELLER I 3 exemplares
NOVELLER II 3 exemplares
Giulia Lazzari 3 exemplares
Mabel 3 exemplares
The Facts of Life 3 exemplares
The Moon and Sixpence -- BBC radio play 2 exemplares
Kogutud novelle ja jutustusi. II 2 exemplares
De brief, en andere verhalen 2 exemplares
Луна и грош. Театр 2 exemplares
Oggi e allora 2 exemplares
Cloak and Dagger 2 exemplares
Sadie Thompson 2 exemplares
Plays II: Our Betters; The Unattainable; Home and Beauty; The Circle; The Constant Wife; The Bread-Winner (1969) 2 exemplares
Kogutud novelle ja jutustusi. III 2 exemplares
Short Stories Vol 4. Somerset Maugham 2 exemplares
Obras Completas. Tomos I,II,III,IV 2 exemplares
Nouvelles bilingue t2 2 exemplares
Footprints in the Jungle [short story] 2 exemplares
The Painted Veil -- BBC radio play 2 exemplares
The Sacred Flame -- BBC radio play 2 exemplares
Ashenden (edited) -- BBC radio play 2 exemplares
Histórias dos mares do sul 2 exemplares
Obras completas. Liza de Lambeth, Cautiva de amor, Soberbia, El velo pintado, Servidumbre Humana. 2 exemplares
Complete Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage Moon and Sixpence Trembling of a Leaf Magician Liza of Lambeth Circle… (2015) 2 exemplares
Les nouvelles completes de somerset maugham, madame la colonelle et 23 autres nouvelles (1981) 2 exemplares
Louise 2 exemplares
In A Strange Land 2 exemplares
A Woman Of Fifty 2 exemplares
Maugham 6 Volume Set (Christmas Holiday (1939) Theatre (37), Of Human Bondage (1915) The Narrow Corner (1932) The Moon… (1930) 2 exemplares
The Judgment Seat 2 exemplares
A Friend in Need 2 exemplares
The Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, vol 2 2 exemplares
The Happy Couple 2 exemplares
ROUVA CRADDOCK 2 2 exemplares
ROUVA CRADDOCK 1 2 exemplares
The Social Sense 2 exemplares
Sanatorium 2 exemplares
The Pool 2 exemplares
The Ant and the Grasshopper 2 exemplares
The Luncheon 2 exemplares
Olosuhteiden oikkuja 2 2 exemplares
Olosuhteiden oikkuja 1 2 exemplares
The Alien Corn 2 exemplares
A Night in June 2 exemplares
Omständigheternas makt : en novellantologi 2 exemplares
The Creative Impulse 2 exemplares
The Buried Talent 2 exemplares
Virtue 2 exemplares
The Vessel Of Wrath 2 exemplares
Soberbia. El velo pintado 2 exemplares
The End Of the Flight 2 exemplares
Mr. Harrington's Washing 2 exemplares
Miss King (in Storie di spionaggio e di finzioni) 2 exemplares
Neil MacAdam 2 exemplares
Masterson 2 exemplares
A String of Beads 2 exemplares
Salvatore 2 exemplares
A Man with a Conscience 2 exemplares
The Yellow Streak 2 exemplares
cakes and ale, up at the villa 2 exemplares
German Harry 2 exemplares
The Taipan 2 exemplares
Mackintosh 2 exemplares
P. & O. 2 exemplares
Glasul porumbitei 1 exemplar
Portretul unui gentleman si alte povestiri 1 exemplar
OBRAS COMPLETAS. Tomo III. Novelas. 1 exemplar
Lo scandalo Mackenzie 1 exemplar
Oyun 1 exemplar
The Voice of the Turtle 1 exemplar
Gigolo And Gigolette 1 exemplar
The verdict & other stories 1 exemplar
Vittoria 1 exemplar
Kangelane 1 exemplar
Gran Mondo, Commedia in tre atti 1 exemplar
The Hero 1 exemplar
Liza of lambeth, cakes and ale, theatre 1 exemplar
The Colonel's Lady 1 exemplar
Der bunte Schleier Roman 1 exemplar
Az oroszlǹb r : elbeszľšek 1 exemplar
W. Somerset Maugham: Short Stories 1 exemplar
Šķitums un īstenība 1 exemplar
W.S. Maugham - La moglie del Colonnello | Charlotte Perkins Gilman - La carta da parati gialla — Autor — 1 exemplar
The Round Dozen (Chinese Edition) 1 exemplar
Trio 1 exemplar
Encore 1 exemplar
The hairless mexican and the traitor 1 exemplar
a outra comedia 1 exemplar
Cakes and Ale and Other Stories 1 exemplar
The Spanish Priest 1 exemplar
Complete Works of W. Somerset Maugham 1 exemplar
Omnibus 2 1 exemplar
Obras completas : W. Somerset Maugham (VI) 1 exemplar
The Making Of A Millionaire 1 exemplar
W. S. Maugham Collected Short Stories 1 exemplar
A Rehearsal 1 exemplar
A Man From Glasgow and Mackintosh 1 exemplar
The Back Of Beyond 1 exemplar
An Official Position 1 exemplar
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAN COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED 1 exemplar
Los Clásicos del Siglo XX 1 exemplar
The decline and fall of the detective story 1 exemplar
Hjälten 1 exemplar
Constant Wife, The ; Act 1-3 1 exemplar
La luna e sei soldi 1 exemplar
Somerset Maughams bedste 1 exemplar
Chuva e outras novelas 1 exemplar
The luncheon and three other stories 1 exemplar
כתבי סומרטס מוהאם 1 exemplar
Murder Most Foul 1 exemplar
Женское постоянство 1 exemplar
Рассказы 1 exemplar
Antologia do conto moderno: Somerset Maugham 1 exemplar
Una goccia di sangue giallo (in Meticci) 1 exemplar
Lo stagno (in Meticci) 1 exemplar
Malezya Tılsımı 1 exemplar
Em Terras Estranhas 1 exemplar
Verdes Moradas 1 exemplar
වනයේ තිබූ පා සයහන් 1 exemplar
Loaves and Fishes 1 exemplar
La Carta Y Otras Narraciones 1 exemplar
Servidumbre humana parte 1 1 exemplar
TALUA KIRALI 1 exemplar
The Avon Book of Modern Short Stories 1 exemplar
Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham 1 exemplar
Don Segundo Sombra 1 exemplar
The Complete Short Stories Volume III 1 exemplar
The Colonel's Lady and Other Stories 1 exemplar
Plays VI 1 exemplar
Somerset Maugham 5 Volume Set (Christmas Holiday (1939) Of Human Bondage (1915) The Narrow Corner (1932) Cakes and Ale… (1932) 1 exemplar
El Santo y el Arzobispo 1 exemplar
Últimos Puntos de Vista 1 exemplar
Obra Escolhida - 2 volumes 1 exemplar
OYUN 1 exemplar
ISPANYOL HAVASI 1 exemplar
BUYULU ADALAR 1 exemplar
The Essential Works of Somerset Maugham 1 exemplar
more great stories 1 exemplar
The beachcomber [Motion picture] 1 exemplar
Fyra världar 1 exemplar
Med alla medel 1 exemplar
The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection: Eight Full-Cast Dramatisations and Readings (2020) 1 exemplar
Plays Volume I 1 exemplar
The Perfect Gentleman 1 exemplar
Extremo oriente [Relatos] 1 exemplar
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (East and West, Vol. 1 / The World Over, Vol. 2) by W. Somerset… (1673) 1 exemplar
Tras una noche de espanto 1 exemplar
קרן-זווית 1 exemplar
A orillas del Támesis 1 exemplar
“After the Party” 1 exemplar
“Back of Beyond” 1 exemplar
Selected Masterpieces 1 exemplar
The Short Stories. The World Over. volume 2 1 exemplar
Soberbia i Rosie 1 exemplar
東大名誉教授と名作・モームの『赤毛』を読む 英文精読術 1 exemplar
Fools and their folly 1 exemplar
Nari 1 exemplar
W niewoli uczuć. T. 1 1 exemplar
Sämtliche Erzählungen II 1 exemplar
Stories 1 exemplar
Selected prose 1 exemplar
The Closed Shop 1 exemplar
أنماط غريبة من الحب 1 exemplar
Regen - Fünf Meistererzählungen [6CD-Box] 1 exemplar
Il meglio 1 exemplar
Elämän kahle I-III 1 exemplar
Elämän kahle. I nide 1 exemplar
Elämän kahle. II nide 1 exemplar
Collected Short Stories 1 exemplar
W. Somerset Maugham collection 1 exemplar
Maugham: The Complete Short Stories Vol 1 1 exemplar
Appearance And Reality 1 exemplar
The Escape 1 exemplar
The Happy Man 1 exemplar
Robie 1 exemplar
The Romantic Young Lady 1 exemplar
The Poet 1 exemplar
The Mother 1 exemplar
Rain (Modern English Short Stories) 1 exemplar
The Promise 1 exemplar
Az ördög sarkantyúja 1 exemplar
On a Chinese Screen & The Land of the Blessed Virgin (A Collection of Travel Sketches & Articles): Collection of… (2017) 1 exemplar
Flotsam And Jetsam 1 exemplar
Obras completas : novelas 1 exemplar
Der Menschen Hörigkeit : Roman Teil 1 [...] 1 exemplar
Passioni: racconti 1 exemplar
Five short stories / by W. Somerset Maugham; [editor, Severo Figarola; producer, Marta Irigoyen] (1981) 1 exemplar
Glödande liv 1 exemplar
Raw Material 1 exemplar
La tentazione di Adamo e altri racconti. 1 exemplar
The Noble Spaniard: A comedy in three acts (adapted from the French of Grenet-Dancourt) (1961) 1 exemplar
Of Human Bondage, a Novel 1 exemplar
W. Somerset Maugham Stories 1 exemplar
A Casual Affair 1 exemplar
The Best Mysteries of All Time Book Set : A Great Deliverance / Ashenden or The British Agent / The Tiger in the Smoke (2005) 1 exemplar
Straight Flush 1 exemplar
The Wash-Tub 1 exemplar
Home 1 exemplar
Mayhew 1 exemplar
Short stories 1 exemplar
Episode 1 exemplar
Rzzonti orientali (Mackintosh - L'avanposto) 1 exemplar
La tentazione di Adamo 1 exemplar
French Joe 1 exemplar
The Human Element 1 exemplar
The Consul 1 exemplar
His Excellency 1 exemplar
The Dream 1 exemplar
The Man with the Scar 1 exemplar
On Style: After Reading Burke 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 915 exemplares
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Contribuidor — 364 exemplares
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuidor — 146 exemplares
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
To Catch a Spy: An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories (1964) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor, algumas edições — 46 exemplares
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2012) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels: Twelve Espionage Masterpieces (1986) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
To the Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years' Entertainment; Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the… (1946) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
The Ghouls Book One - The Stories Behind The Classic Horror Films (1974) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Best Plays of 1926-1927: and the Year Book of the Drama in America (1927) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Up At The Villa [2000 film] — Original story — 5 exemplares
Moon and Sixpence [1942 film] — Original story — 5 exemplares
Best-In-Books, Volume 48: Dodsworth / Great Impersonation / Green Hat / Along With Other Short Stories and Excerpts (1961) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Cakes and ale; or, The skeleton in the cupboard (Macmillan Student Series) [Abridged] (1973) — algumas edições — 3 exemplares
Start Counting; Three In Hand (The Facts Of Life, The Letter, Lord Mountdrago); Winston Churchill: The Struggle For… (1929) 3 exemplares
Spionhistorier fra hele verden — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
An Anthology of English humor : short stories by various authors — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Best Legal Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Murder Mixture: An Anthology of Crime Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Our Betters [1933 film] — Original play — 1 exemplar
Club del Misterio volum 10 -Conferencia sobre la habitación cerrada- (1982) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Great tales of adventure: A selection of condensed novels and full-length short stories (1982) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Argosy (UK) [Vol. IV No. 5, June 1943] — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Mystery and Suspense — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Maugham, William Somerset
- Data de nascimento
- 1874-01-25
- Data de falecimento
- 1965-12-16
- Localização do túmulo
- Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England, UK (ashes buried outside the Maugham Library)
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
France - País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- UK Embassy, Paris, France
- Local de falecimento
- Nice, France
- Locais de residência
- Paris, France
Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
Heidelberg, Germany
London, England, UK
Hollywood, California, USA
Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat, Côte d'Azur, France - Educação
- University of Heidelberg
St Thomas Hospital, London - Ocupações
- novelist
playwright
spy
surgeon
ambulance driver - Relações
- Maugham, Robin (nephew)
Maugham, Henry Neville (brother)
Maugham, Frederic Herbert (brother)
Maugham, Robert (grandfather)
Marr-Johnson, Diana (niece) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Order of the Companions of Honour (1954)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1950)
Membros
Discussions
Stendhal and the Greatest Novels of all Time em George Macy devotees (Julho 2023)
May 2022: W. Somerset Maugham em Monthly Author Reads (Setembro 2022)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE APRIL 2015 - CARTER & SOMERSET MAUGHAM em 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Setembro 2015)
W. Somerset Maugham em Legacy Libraries (Junho 2015)
June 2014: W. Somerset Maugham em Monthly Author Reads (Agosto 2014)
Of Human Bondage em Someone explain it to me... (Julho 2014)
Just Joined - and my small/humble HP collection... em George Macy devotees (Setembro 2012)
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 633
- Also by
- 168
- Membros
- 41,718
- Popularidade
- #417
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 832
- ISBN
- 1,988
- Línguas
- 28
- Marcado como favorito
- 232
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