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W. Somerset Maugham Read a book review online (click here to search reviews) Books Movies Sci-Fi/Fantasy ... History Author Maugham's Book Reviews Message Board Christmas Holiday Rich, young protagonist goes to Paris to visit old friend. Old friend, unfortunately, has become a die-hard communist and doesn't want to deal with protagonist; he sets up our hero with a prostitute, who, in telling her story, helps our hero come of age and understand a darker side of society.... Mrs. Craddock Bertha Ley announces on her 21st birthday that she intends to marry Edward Craddock, whom her family think is not good enough for her. After their honeymoon she realizes that he is an insensitive bore, and when she becomes pregnant she fears that something is about to go very wrong, but he does not believe her. Their son is stillborn, and she learns she will never conceive again. Unable to get over the loss, she finds no comfort in religion, and goes ... Of Human Bondage Philip Care, an orphan is brought up by his aunt and uncle to take a vocation in the church; however, he defies his uncle and makes an important decision to leave his studies and follow an uncertain path to discover where his true potential lies. He tries accountancy and art, but settles on becoming a doctor. On his journey he becomes more aware of the complexities and inconsistencies of human nature and that striving for the unachievable may only lead h... Of Human Destiny Philip Carey becomes an orphan as a young teen and is sent to live with his clergyman uncle and aunt, a childless couple. He attends a prep school where life is made miserable by bullies teasing about his club foot. He defies the wishes of his uncle for him to become a clergyman after education at Oxford and instead lives for a year in Heidelberg. He does not "find himself" there and attempts to become an artist in Paris. He realizes he will never be ...

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"The Appointment in Samarra" (as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933]) The speaker is Death There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. There is a brief Study Guide for this narrative. But you should not take it up until you have reread this little story a few times. What are some of the details that, on reflection, help to make this exact way of telling the story intriguing?

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Home Subjects Archives Quotations Search: Search Tips W. Somerset Maugham British novelist, playwright, and short-story writer WORDS ABOUT WORDS Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. The Trembling of a Leaf Posted on March 2, 2000 at 11:07 AM W. Somerset Maugham quotations Permalink Comments WORDS ABOUT WORDS It is a difficulty in writing English that the sound of the living voice dominates the look of the printed word. The Summing Up Posted on March 22, 2000 at 12:18 PM W. Somerset Maugham quotations Permalink Comments WORDS ABOUT WORDS Impropriety is the soul of wit. The Moon and Sixpence Posted on July 6, 1998 at 8:15 PM W. Somerset Maugham quotations Permalink Comments WORDS ABOUT WORDS A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. A Writer's Notebook Posted on March 31, 1999 at 9:13 AM W. Somerset Maugham quotations Permalink Comments WORDS ABOUT WORDS At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. A Writer's Notebook Posted on March 5, 1999 at 3:07 PM

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W. Somerset Maugham Q U O T E S T O I N S P I R E Y O U Great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be! Age and Aging W hen I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. Beauty T he ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. Common Sense C ommon sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. Critics and Criticism P eople who ask for your criticism want only praise. Evil T here is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. Fame I t is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. Freedom T here are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action. Habit T he unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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W. Somerset Maugham From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. ~ Strictly Personal William Somerset Maugham 25 January 16 December ) English playwright, novelist, and short story writer; often published as simply W. Somerset Maugham Contents Sourced Of Human Bondage (1915) The Moon and Sixpence (1919) The Summing Up (1938) ... edit Sourced Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. The Trembling of a Leaf , ch. 3 (1921) The tragedy of love is indifference. The Trembling of a Leaf , ch. 4 After all, a man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. Arnold, in The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts (1921), p. 58-59 It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. Our Betters Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

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34. About Last Night: It was a lovely sunny day, and we talked a lot about somerset maugham over Terry wrote the introductions to William Bailey on Canvas, just out from http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2007/07/caaf_published_sumptuously_at_

an ARTSJOURNAL ArtsJournal Home AJ Blog Central Main July 12, 2007 CAAF: "Published sumptuously at his own expense." Last fall, when The Letter opera was still a wee twinkle, I had tapas with Terry and Maud in New York. It was a lovely sunny day, and we talked a lot about Somerset Maugham over lunch. Enough so that afterward I tried to track down a copy of "The Letter" at Three Lives . No luck, but I did get the first volume of Maugham's collected short stories, containing the devastating story "Rain," which I read over the next few days. That set me off on a Maugham kick that lasted several months. The usual suspects: Human Bondage (half a great novel) and Cakes and Ale (a very happy re-read). The strangest entry in the Maugham-a-thon was a little-known novel called The Magician . Written early in Maugham's career, it's a purple, pulpish Gothic set in turn-of-the-century Paris. In it, two lovers are separated when the "sinister and repulsive" magician Oliver Haddo appears on the scene, sets his sights on the beautiful Margaret, bewitches her and draws her into a vile, debauched lifestyle abroad (to the modern reader the descriptions of this lifestyle will suggest that Margaret has gone Eurotrash). It just gets weirder from there. How weird? Secret-laboratory-of-succubi weird. The Haddo character was modeled on Aleister Crowley, whom Maugham met while living in Paris. At the time, as Maugham writes in the foreword to

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Fiction Non-Fiction Young Readers Poetry ... Members :: Tools Printer-friendly William Somerset Maugham Titles in Fiction category: Magician, The Arthur Burdon and Dr Porhoet walked in silence. They had lunched at a restaurant in the Boulevard Saint Michel, and were sauntering now in the gardens of the Luxembourg. Dr Porhoet walked with stooping shoulders, his hands behind him. He beheld the scene with the eyes of the many painters ... Moon and Sixpence I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the succe ... Of Human Bondage The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the chil ... About the Author British novelist, playwright, short-story writer, highest paid author in the world in the 1930s. Despite his popularity, Maugham did not gain serious recognition. This was expressed in his autobiography

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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham skip to main skip to sidebar Outmoded Authors A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage recounts the first 30 years in the life of Philip Carey, from the sudden death of his adored and adoring mother, to his decision to marry and to settle on a career as a doctor. This is a quiet book, and Maugham's writing is deceptively spare and plain. His meaning is always clear so the story progresses swiftly, unobstructed by authorial cleverness. I found it absolutely gripping while I was reading it, despite the fact that Philip is not always sympathetic or even likeable. The story draws heavily on episodes from Maugham's own life: he was an orphan, he hated the boarding school to which he was sent, he attended university in Germany, he studied medicine; all these episodes are reproduced in the book. In addition, Philip Carey suffers from a club-foot, a physical disfigurement that perhaps stands in for the stutter that plagued Maugham throughout his life. And, Philip is a sharp-tongued, angry youth who does not make friends easily, another characteristic that he shares with Maugham. In the Foreword to my edition, Maugham says: Of Human Bondage is not an autobiography, but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inextricably mingled; the emotions are my own but not all the incidents are related as they happened and some of them are transferred to my hero not from my own life but from that of persons with whom I was intimate. The book did for me what I wanted and when it was issued to the world ... I found myself free forever from the pains and unhappy recollections that had tormented me.

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