Three Novels 14 Short Stories. Of Human Bondage, the Magician, the Moon and Sixpence, Orientations, the Trembling of a Leaf (Timeless Wisdom Collection) By W. Somerset Maugham
W Somerset Maugham was a British playwright novelist and short story writer He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s This second volume of the collection features the following three novels and 14 short stories in two collections including some of his most popular works THREE NOVELS 14 SHORT STORIES OF HUMAN BONDAGE THE MAGICIAN THE MOON AND SIXPENCE ORIENTATIONS THE TREMBLING OF A LEAF Three Novels 14 Short Stories Of Human Bondage the Magician the Moon and Sixpence Orientations the Trembling of a Leaf Timeless Wisdom Collection William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874 He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style His parents died early and after an unhappy boyhood which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage Maugham became a qualified physician But writing was his true vocation For ten years before his first success he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner Thomas Mann James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim In this context his plain prose style was criticized as such a tissue of clich s that one William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874 He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style His parents died early and after an unhappy boyhood which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage Maugham became a qualified physician But writing was his true vocation For ten years before his first success he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner Thomas Mann James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim In this context his plain prose style was criticized as such a tissue of clich s that one s wonder is finally aroused at the writer s ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way. During World War I Maugham worked for the British Secret Service He travelled all over the world and made many visits to America After World War II Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965 site_link 
| Three Novels 14 Short Stories. Of Human Bondage, the Magician, the Moon and Sixpence, Orientations, the Trembling of a Leaf (Timeless Wisdom Collection) By W. Somerset Maugham |
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