Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger. And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered. For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion. Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings. Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.

UP at the Villa

Literature & Fiction

Maugham, Somerset

Maugham, W.Somerset

United States

Vintage

In this, the second volume comprised of Maugham's best works, the four plays in this selection provide significant evidence of the playwright's powers as a dramatist.   For Services Rendered sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War.   The Letter, a tense drama of sexual passion set in the Malay States, shows Maugham as the colonial storyteller.  In contrast, Home and Beauty treats the marital complications of a returning war hero with Mozartian joie de vivre.  W. Somerset Maugham established his reputation as a master of the social comedy in the tradition of Oscar Wilde with Lady Frederick in 1907.

Maugham Plays: Two: For Services Rendered, The Letter, Home and Beauty, and Lady Frederick

Dramas & Plays

A&C Black

Rich in humour, conflict and depth, The Circle follows Lady Kitty, who had given up a stuffy life with her titled husband to run away with a young adventurer, as she watches her niece, Elizabeth about to make the same mistake 20 years later. Glynis Johns, Rex Harrison and Stewart Granger starred in a hit revival of Maugham's sparkling comedy of manners on Broadway.|3 women, 4 men

The Circle

Samuel French Ltd.

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魔术师: The Magician, Chinese edition

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Bamboo Press

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 of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.

The Magician

Humor & Satire

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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 of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism.Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.The novel inspired a film of the same name directed in 1926 by Rex Ingram.

Classics

Liza of Lambeth

William Somerset Maugham (1874 -1965), better known as 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. After losing both his parents by the age of 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a physician. The initial run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time. During the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps, before being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service, for which he worked in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917. During and after the war, he travelled in India and Southeast Asia; these experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.In this book:Of Human Bondage, 1915The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

Somerset Maugham, best novels

Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, "The Moon and Sixpence" looks at howeach of us persues our dreams, the choices we make and forsake, as well as the consequences to those around us.

The Moon and Sixpence

Barnes_and_Nobles

Serenity Publishers, LLC

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UP at the Villa

Maugham Plays: Two: For Services Rendered, The Letter, Home and Beauty, and Lady Frederick

The Circle

魔术师: The Magician, Chinese edition

The Magician

The Magician

Liza of Lambeth

Somerset Maugham, best novels

The Moon and Sixpence

The Magician