W. Somerset Maugham

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W. Somerset Maugham - Orientations

This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's best teller of tales. — Summary by Lilith Branda

OCTL7 5 hours 11 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - Liza of Lambeth

Liza of Lambeth focuses on the challenges of life facing Liza, an 18 year old factory girl who lives in the poverty of the slums of 1890s London. The main plot is driven by Liza's affections and the consequences these...

Hatton43 3 hours 19 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - Trembling of a Leaf

A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous «Red,» «Rain,» and «The Fall of Edward Barnard,» the last of which contains the basic story of what came to be one of the most...

OCTL7 7 hours 43 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - Explorer

An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKenzie have to choose between grasping happiness that is their due and...

OCTL7 8 hours 17 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - Hero

James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for risking his life to save a fellow soldier. However, for...

OCTL7 8 hours 18 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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W. Somerset Maugham - Bishop's Apron

«Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose.» Maugham could have added ambitious, hypocritical, and vain. In this engrossing social satire, Theodore...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 35 minutes

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General Fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - Mrs. Craddock

“I thought it was you I saw coming up the hill,” she said, stretching out her hand. He stopped and shook it; the touch of his big, firm fingers made her tremble. His hand was massive and hard as if it were hewn...

Tony Oliva 11 hours 8 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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W. Somerset Maugham - Rain (Version 2)

Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia)

Linda Hogan 1 hour 27 minutes

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General Fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage , published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s literary masterpieces. The story follows Phillip Carey from early childhood...

Tom Weiss 25 hours 45 minutes

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General Fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - Magician

The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique...

Delmar H Dolbier 7 hours 57 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - On a Chinese Screen

This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 7 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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W. Somerset Maugham - Moon and Sixpence (version 2)

The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the...

Chip and 1 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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