W. Somerset Maugham

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland...

The Magician

by W. Somerset Maugham

Maugham wrote The Magician after meeting the famous magician and occultist Aleister Crowly in Paris. He caricatures Crowly as the protagonist Oliver Haddo, a magician who is attempting to create life. Crowly...

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.

Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege.  He...

Liza of Lambeth

by W. Somerset Maugham

Liza of Lambeth (1897) narrates Liza's last four months alive. She lives in a working-class area of London, and as the youngest of thirteen siblings she is left to look after their incompetent mother. She rejects...

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham & Benjamin DeMott

From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship...

The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection

by W. Somerset Maugham

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by W. Somerset Maugham

The Explorer

The Hero

The Land of Promise

The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia

Liza of Lambeth

The Magician...

Of Human Bondage: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by W. Somerset Maugham

The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris...

Of Human Bondage: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by W. Somerset Maugham

'It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham,' wrote Gore Vidal. 'He was always so entirely there.' Originally published in 1915,...