Author of Audiobooks - W. Somerset Maugham
The Trembling of a Leaf - W. Somerset Maugham
The Trembling of a Leaf - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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 well-known among W. Somerset Maugham's...
The Hero - W. Somerset Maugham
The Hero - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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 Jamie, nothing is the same anymore....
The Bishop's Apron - W. Somerset Maugham
The Bishop's Apron - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
"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 Spratte, a cleric, motivated by an...
On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction
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 through his 30’s. Orphaned at 9,...
Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
“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 of stone. She looked up at him and...
Orientations - W. Somerset Maugham
Orientations - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Single Author Collections
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...
Liza of Lambeth - W. Somerset Maugham
Liza of Lambeth - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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 have for her. Based on W...
The Moon and Sixpence (version 2) - W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence (version 2) - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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 mind and soul of the central...
The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction
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...
The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. We follow Strickland from the point where he...
The Explorer - W. Somerset Maugham
The Explorer - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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 upholding a set of moral values that...
Rain - W. Somerset Maugham
Rain - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Short Stories
One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force their moral beliefs on a girl who basically just wants to have fun. At a running time of approximately 2 1/2...
Rain (Version 2) - W. Somerset Maugham
Rain (Version 2) - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia)...
The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction
This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epidemiologist, Dr. Fane, falls in love with the beautiful, but vain and foolish, Kitty Garstin. She agrees to...
The Merry-Go-Round - W. Somerset Maugham
The Merry-Go-Round - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the honourable thing to do after getting her pregnant, but he realizes that he is really in love with Hilda Murray. Grace Castillyon, an established married woman of position, has fallen...