W. Somerset Maugham

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

When beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane's husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic....

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters....

Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire....

When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy....

In June 1917, W. S. Maugham was asked by the British Secret Intelligence Service, to undertake a special mission in Russia to support Kerensky's government.....

Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay....

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was born at the height of British Imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory...

The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition....

Somerset Maugham is one of the best-loved short story writers of the last 100 years....

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume One is the first instalment in our classics collection focusing on the most important and iconic novels, stories, and poems of the 20th century.

Set in the time of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, Catalina is a novel both richly historical and affectingly human....

Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist’s voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie.

In the winter of 1919 Somerset Maugham, at the age of 45, undertook an arduous journey up the Yangtze River in China....

Of Human Bondage follows Philip on his travels to Paris, London, and Germany, taking the listener on an adventure of discovery as his travels brings him new discoveries and emotional growth....

Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers....

William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory....

A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw....

In volume three of this series, we present all of the remaining short stories which Maugham published after World War I and which he subsequently caused to be republished in various collections....

re have been few masters of the short story as popular as W. S. Maugham....