In the US they spent time in Hollywood, which Maugham despised from the first, but found highly remunerative. Maugham's British and American publishers issued and reissued various, sometimes overlapping, permutations during his lifetime and subsequently. Among his colleagues was Frederick Gerald Haxton, a young San Franciscan, who became his lover and companion for the next thirty years, but the affair between Maugham and Syrie Wellcome continued.[51]. There are nineteen in all, of which those most often mentioned by critics are Liza of Lambeth, Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil, Cakes and Ale, The Moon and Sixpence and The Razor's Edge. Maugham wrote of Haxton: After the South Seas trip Maugham visited the US and was joined by Syrie. William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular writers of his time, and reputedly the highest paid author of the 1930s. E.M. Forster. I saw how they bore pain. If you like W. Somerset Maugham, you might also like: E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and John Fowles. He did not use them, like, There are times when one thinks that British television and radio would have to shut up shop if there were not an apparently inexhaustible supply of stories by Maugham to turn into 30-minute plays. By Jeffrey Meyers. He achieved fame initially as a dramatist with plays such as Lady Frederick (1912) and The Circle (1921). [177] In the first screen version of Rain (1928) expurgations fundamentally altered the characters;[178] an adaptation of "The Facts of Life" in the 1948 omnibus film Quartet omitted the key plot point that the scheming young woman on whom the young hero turns the tables is a prostitute with whom he has just spent a night;[179] in "The Ant and the Grasshopper" a young adventurer marries not a rich old woman who dies soon afterwards but a rich young one who remains very much alive. [141] Several commentators have characterised him as a pessimist, who did not share Shaw's optimistic belief that art could improve humanity. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it . His lifestyle was modest: he felt that despite his considerable wealth he should not live luxuriously while Britain was enduring wartime privations. Maugham wrote that he followed no master, and acknowledged none, but he named Guy de Maupassant as an early influence. [25] The local physician in Whitstable suggested the medical profession, and Maugham's uncle agreed. [29] The Westminster Gazette praised the writing but deplored the subject matter,[30] and The Times also conceded the author's skill "Mr Maugham seems to aspire, and not unsuccessfully, to be the Zola of the New Cut" but thought him "capable of better things [than] this singularly unpleasant novel". William Somerset Maugham was an English author and playwright. But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale. Although primarily homosexual, he attempted to conform to some extent with the norms of his day. The protagonist of the story, Salvatore who is a usual fisherman's son, is intensely in love with a beautiful girl who lives on the Grande Marina. [5], In his work as a medical student Maugham met the poorest working-class people: "I was in contact with what I most wanted, life in the raw". He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. Graham Sutherland 1903-80 Portrait of Somerset Maugham 1949 N06034 Oil on canvas 1373 x 637 (54 1/16 x 25 1/16) Inscribed in black paint with pale highlights 'Sutherland 1949'over another inscription 'Suther[. [66] In addition to his intelligence work, Maugham gathered material for his fiction wherever he went. There are but two important critics in my own country who have troubled to take me seriously and when clever young men write essays about contemporary fiction they never think of considering me. He successfully sued for divorce in 1916, citing Maugham as co-respondent. William Somerset Maugham came from a family of lawyers. [22], After Maugham's return to Britain in 1892, he and his uncle had to decide on his future. Maugham's alienation started in childhood. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. William Somerset Maugham [mm] ( 25. tammikuuta 1874 Pariisi, Ranska - 16. joulukuuta 1965 Nizza, Ranska) oli englantilainen nytelmkirjailija, kirjailija ja novellisti, 1930-luvun tunnetuimpia lnsimaisia kirjailijoita ja tiettvsti mys suurituloisimpia. [142] Christopher Innes has observed that, like Chekhov, Maugham qualified as a doctor, and their medical training gave them "a materialistic determinism that discounted any possibility of changing the human condition". [85] They divorced in 1929. [167] Another English story is "Lord Mountdrago" (1939), depicting the psychological collapse of a pompous cabinet minister. [145], A few of Maugham's plays have been revived occasionally. Syrie and Liza were with him for part of the year, providing a convincing domestic cover, and his profession as a writer enabled him to travel about and stay in hotels without attracting attention. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Plays; Volume 1 by W Somerset 1874-1965 Maugham at the best online prices at eBay! [40] It ran for 422 performances at five different West End theatres. [136] Among his longest-running comedies were Lady Frederick (1907), Jack Straw (1908), Our Betters (1923)[n 15] and The Constant Wife (1926), which ran in the West End or on Broadway for 422, 321, 548 and 295 performances respectively. [146] In London, the National Theatre has presented two Maugham plays since its inception in 1963: Home and Beauty in 1968 and For Services Rendered in 1979. He found his uncle and aunt well-meaning but remote by contrast with the loving warmth of his home in Paris; he became shy and developed a stammer that stayed with him all his life. Maugham usually published his works under the name of W. Somerset Maugham. W. Somerset Maugham; April 1948 Issue; The Brothers Karamazov. The early death of his parents and his consequent exile from home and country gave Somerset Maugham a wretched start in life. I do not resent it. He published seventy-eight books -- including the undisputed classics Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge -- which sold over 40 million copies in his lifetime. The Razor's Edge, the author's last major novel,[5] is described by Sutherland as "Maugham's twentieth-century manifesto for human fulfilment", satirising Western materialism and drawing on Eastern spiritualism as a way to find meaning in existence. . [n 12] There is some suggestion that his known homosexuality may have militated against his receiving the higher honour.[119]. [n 3] Robert Maugham handled the legal affairs of the British Embassy there, as his eldest surviving son, Charles, later did. [150] Unlike many of Maugham's later novels it has an unequivocally tragic ending. The British colonies there failed to provide him with anything like the material he had gathered in the Asian outposts in the 1920s, but the French penal settlement on Devil's Island furnished him with some stories. Maugham's job was to counter German propaganda, and to encourage the moderate republican Russian government under Alexander Kerensky to continue fighting. "[95] Raphael suggests that Maugham now wished to write to please himself rather than others. [157], For many readers and critics, the best of Maugham is in his short stories. [139], Unlike his elder contemporary Shaw, Maugham did not view drama as didactic or moralistic;[140] like his younger contemporary Coward, he wrote plays to entertain, and any moral or social conclusions were at most incidental. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-Somerset-Maugham, Spartacus Educational - Biography of William Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). W. Somerset Maugham. The Razor's Edge by W Somerset Maugham (Bill Murray Cover) (Paperback, Fiction) 1984. [5], Shortly before the birth of the Maughams' fourth son the government of France proposed a new law under which all boys born on French soil to foreign parents would automatically be French citizens and liable to conscription for military service. [89] The majority of his original plays were comedies, but of his serious dramas East of Suez (1922), The Letter (1927) and The Sacred Flame (1929) ran for more than 200 performances. "Mr. Maugham Himself". Who Is W. Somerset Maugham's Wife? Her Fortnite livestreams have helped her amass more than 800,000 followers. These often convey the emotional toll that isolation exacts from the characters. She was married to the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome, but the couple had formally separated in 1909, after which she had a succession of partners, including the retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge. [171], Comic stories include "Jane" (1923), about a dowdy widow who reinvents herself as an outrageous and conspicuous society figure, to the consternation of her family;[172] "The Creative Impulse" (1926), in which a domineering authoress is shocked when her mild-mannered husband leaves her and sets up home with their cook;[172] and "The Three Fat Women of Antibes" (1933) in which three middle-aged friends play highly competitive bridge while attempting to slim, until reversals at the bridge table at the hands of an effortlessly slender fourth player provoke them into extravagantly breaking their diets. [139] Trewin quoted with approval Maugham's observation, "Words have weight, sound, and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to". He lived from 1874-1965. William Somerset Maugham Theatre I THE door opened and Michael Gosselyn looked up. Somerset Maugham (1874 -- 1965) grew to fit Brady's bill as a writer. Many portray the conflict of Europeans in alien surroundings that provoke strong emotions, and Maughams skill in handling plot, in the manner of Guy de Maupassant, is distinguished by economy and suspense. [n 16] His aspiration to become a concert pianist ends in failure and suicide. [188], In The Summing Up (1938), Maugham wrote of his non-dramatic work, "I have no illusions about my literary position. Sisllys 1 Henkilhistoria 2 Kirjallinen tuotanto 2.1 Suomennetut teokset [73], As in his novels and short stories, Maugham's plots are clear and his dialogue naturalistic. Synonyms for Somerset Maugham in Free Thesaurus. William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874- 16 December 1965) was an English novelist, short story writer and playwright. [26] In maturity, he recalled the value of his experiences: "I saw how men died. Many of his works were highly praised: the novels Of Human Bondage , Cakes and Ale , The Razor's Edge , and The Moon and Sixpence ; short stories such as "Rain" and "The Outstation"; and his plays Lady . . He shared . Find The Judgment Seat by W. Somerset Maugham - 1934. It is all very well for you, you are author, actor and producer. When W. SOMERSET MAUGH AM was asked to select and edit the ten best novels in world literature, he thought at once of Balzac. [47] In 1913 he proposed to the actress Sue Jones, daughter of the playwright Henry Arthur Jones;[48] she declined his offer. His fluency in French and German was an advantage, and for a year he worked in Geneva at his own expense as an agent for the British Secret Service. 27, 59, 143 and 295, Mander and Mitchenson, p. 15; and Richards, pp. [69] She returned to England and he continued with his work as a secret agent. Authors. [190] A rising critic of a younger generation, Cyril Connolly, praised Maugham for his lucidity and called him "the last of the great professional writers",[190] but Connolly's contemporary Edmund Wilson insisted that Maugham was second-rate and "disappointing". Popular British novelist, playwright, short-story writer and the highest-paid author in the world in the 1930s, Somerset Maugham graduated in 1897 from St. Thomas' Medical School and qualified as a doctor, but abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and plays. IndigoMistBooks. [21] Brooks encouraged Maugham's ambitions to be a writer and introduced him to the works of Schopenhauer and Spinoza. Used; Condition Used - Good ISBN 13 9780140185232 Two days later his ashes were interred in the grounds of The King's School, Canterbury, beside the wall of the Maugham Library, which he had endowed in 1961. He later said, "I took to it as a duck takes to water. [27] In 1897 he published his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, a tale of working-class adultery and its consequences. He returned to Britain and spent three months in a sanatorium in Scotland. [107] Maugham was happy for him and was reconciled to the possibility of returning to La Mauresque without him after the war. [50], By 1914 Maugham was famous, with thirteen plays and eight novels completed. Some of the short stories will undoubtedly prove immortal". [36], The Making of a Saint, a historical novel, attracted less attention than Liza of Lambeth and its sales were unremarkable. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced mawm), was an English novelist, playwright and a short story writer. Looking back, he described his early attempts to be heterosexual as the greatest mistake in his life. His work was popular for his simple style of writing, as well as his sharp and accurate understanding and judgment of human nature. The Evening Standard commented that there had not been so powerful a story of slum life since Rudyard Kipling's The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot (1890), and praised the author's "vividness and knowledge extraordinary gift of directness and concentration His characters have an astounding amount of vitality". They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Suffering from a bad stammer, he received a classic public school education at King's school in . [8][9] The second son, Frederic, became a barrister, and had a distinguished legal career in Britain The Times described him as "a great legal figure" serving as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (19351938) and Lord Chancellor (19381939). His great popularity and prodigious sales provoked adverse reactions from highbrow critics, many of whom sought to belittle him as merely competent. This website uses cookies. [20] A modest legacy from his father enabled him to go to Heidelberg University to study. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. As a result, he developed a talent for applying a wounding remark to those who displeased him. Sources differ (see footnote 1) on whether Maugham died on 15 or 16 December, but it is generally agreed that to circumvent a law requiring autopsies in cases of death in hospital, he was taken by ambulance, shortly before or shortly after his death, to La Mauresque and it was announced that he had died there on 16 December. Sitter associated with 115 portraits. [130] H.E.Bates, praising many of Maugham's attributes as a writer, objected to his frequent reliance on clichd phrases,[131] and George Lyttelton commented that Maugham "purchases a beautiful lucidity at the cost of numberless clichs", but rated the lucidity second only to that of Shaw. 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. [5][57] Bryan Connon comments in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "After this it seemed that Maugham could not fail, and the public eagerly bought his novels [and] volumes of his carefully crafted short stories". W. Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage) " If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. The possibility became a certainty when in November 1944, after a six-month illness initially diagnosed as pleurisy, Haxton died of tuberculosis. Maugham considered himself a better writer than. [43] Punch printed a cartoon of Shakespeare's ghost looking concerned about the ubiquity of Maugham's plays. Actually it has extremely complicated things to say about them, but its most important message may be that actions have real consequences, no matter how casually those actions may be taken". ENVOI William Somerset Maugham 25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Presented by Lady John Hope 1951 Provenance: Commissioned by Somerset Maugham 1949 and given by him to his daughter, Lady Joan Hope Exhibited: Graham Sutherland 1924-51 . He wrote seven plays during the decade: The Unknown (1920), The Circle (1921), East of Suez (1922), The Camel's Back (1923), The Constant Wife (1926), The Letter (1927) and The Sacred Flame (1928). William Somerset Maugham[n 2] CH (/mm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 16 December 1965)[n 1] was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. After one has got over the glamour of the stage and the excitement, I do not myself think the theatre has much to offer the writer compared with the other mediums in which he has complete independence and need consider no one. William Somerset Maugham ( IPA : /mm/ ), mer knd som W. Somerset Maugham, fdd 25 januari 1874 i Paris i Frankrike, dd 16 december 1965 i Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat nra Nice, var en betydande brittisk dramatiker, roman - och novellfrfattare . [164], Among the short stories set in England, one of the best-known is "The Alien Corn" (1931), where a young man rediscovers his Jewish heritage and rejects his family's efforts to distance themselves from Judaism. William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 Paris, France - December 16, 1965 Nice, France) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, one of the most popular authors of the 1930s and reportedly the highest paid. [190] L. A. G. Strong acknowledged his craftsmanship, but described his writing as having an effect like "that of music expertly played in an expensive restaurant at dinner". Maugham's short story "The Verger" is a tale about a simple man Albert Edward Foreman. He was one of the most reputed and well-known . [183] On radio, the BBC's connection with Maugham goes back to 1930, when Hermione Gingold and Richard Goolden starred in an adaptation of "Before the Party" from his 1922 volume The Casuarina Tree. [31] The first print run sold out within three weeks and a reprint was quickly arranged. An instinctive and magnificent storyteller, Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful writers of his time. He entered the marriage from a sense of duty rather than from personal inclination, and the two quickly began to grow apart. And in one way or another however indirectly all I've written during the last twenty years has something to do with him".[109]. Of their seven children, three died in infancy. the son of a tailor, he dropped his aitches like one of the characters in, Winter and spring at the Mauresque, a few weeks of foreign travel (Austria, Italy, Spain) with a stay at a spa (, Maugham, the disbeliever in ecclesiastical ritual, was buried without ritual but on hallowed ground. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. W. Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965) first claimed fame as a playwright and novelist, but he became best known in the 1920's and 1930's the world over as an international traveler and short-story writer. Raphael comments that there is no firm evidence for this,[5][53] and Meyers suggests that she is based on Harry Phillips, a young man whom Maugham had taken to Paris as, nominally, his secretary for a prolonged stay in 1905. This was Maugham's longest-running original play, but a dramatisation of his short story. He found Mediterranean lands much to his liking, for what his biographer Frederic Raphael calls their "douceur de vivre missing under grim English skies". William Somerset Maugham CH was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. Maugham was born in the English embassy in Paris; the youngest son, he was nicknamed "Willie" by his beautiful mother, Edith . Died: December 16, 1965, in Nice, France. [83], In Maugham's absence his wife found an occupation, becoming a sought-after interior designer. Maugham was a well-known English playwright, novelist and short story writer. William Somerset Maugham ( 25. ledna 1874, Pa - 16. prosince 1965, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat pobl Nice) byl anglick spisovatel a dramatik . He was raised by his aunt and uncle, and bullied by children at school. His grandfather, Robert Maugham (17881862), was a prominent solicitor and co-founder of the Law Society of England and Wales. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. Filmed at Somerset Maugham's villa at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Mediterranean, this program features the author and playwright in a far-ranging 1955 conve. [81] Maugham, as always, observed closely and collected material for his stories wherever they went. Somerset Maugham 5 , 5 , 6 , 1 Somerset Maugham. [19] He left as soon as he could, although he later developed an affection for the school, and became a generous benefactor. In his teens he became a lifelong non-believer. Connon writes, "He was seen by some as a near saint and by others, particularly the Maugham family, as a villain";[5] Hastings labels him "a podgy Iago constantly briefing against [Syrie and Liza]", and quotes Alan Pryce-Jones's summary: "an intriguer, a schemer with a keen eye to his own advantage, a troublemaker". Part 2 also available on my channel as well as all parts from his other films Trio and Encore. Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and the orphaned boy was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. But at first glance, Maugham's progression to worldwide fame and great wealth seems relatively straightforward. [134] After his early writing, in which long sentences are punctuated with semicolons and commas, Maugham came to favour short, direct sentences. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. [58] The baby was legally the daughter of Henry Wellcome, although he had not seen his wife for many years. Maugham's first successful novel was the semi-autobiographical Of Human Bondage (1915). [84] By 1925, Maugham, learning that his wife was spreading scandal about his private life and had taken lovers of her own, was reconsidering his future. Publisher: Franklin Classics. After Haxton's death in 1944, Alan Searle became Maugham's secretary-companion for the rest of the author's life. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English playwright and author wrote Of Human Bondage (1915); He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of reality. They visited the Far East together in 191920, keeping Maugham away from home for six months. - Nizza, 1965. december 16.) [187] Nonetheless, Maugham is recognised as an influence on Coward, Lawrence, Kingsley Amis, Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, V. S. Naipaul and George Orwell. Mary Elizabeth Maugham. He was selected by Sir William Wiseman of British Intelligence to go to Russia, where the overthrow of the monarchy threatened to lead to a Russian withdrawal from the war. W. Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Story Salvatore by W. Somerset MaughamIntroduction, Theme and Summary The story deals with love of a couple never going to be united. [170] In the 1928 volume Ashenden features in sixteen stories; two years later he reappeared, in his peacetime role of writer, as the narrator of Cakes and Ale. [181] Calder cites BBC Television's series of twenty-six stories shown in 1969 and 1970, adapted by dramatists including Roy Clarke, Simon Gray, Hugh Leonard, Simon Raven and Hugh Whitemore,[182] "presented with scrupulous fidelity to [their] tone, attitude, and thematic intention". [173], In a study published thirteen years after Maugham's death, Robert L. Calder notes that the writer's works had been made into forty films and hundreds of radio and television plays, and he suggests "it would be fair to say that no other serious writer's work has been so often presented in other media". [8] The two younger sons became writers: Henry (18681904) wrote poetry, essays and travel books. In the weeks before the war began, Maugham had been completing his novel Of Human Bondage, a Bildungsroman with substantial autobiographical elements. [168], The polished, detached William Ashenden, the central figure of the eponymous collection of spy stories (1928), is a writer recruited, as Maugham was, into the British Secret Service. Number of Pages: Support your answer with examples from the story. Most viewed. [94] Maugham later wrote, "I grew conscious that I was no longer in touch with the public that patronises the theatre. I am done with playwriting. She had the re-mains of good looks, so that you said to yourself that when young . [32] Maugham qualified as a physician the month after the publication of Liza of Lambeth but he immediately abandoned medicine and embarked on his 65-year career as a writer. [119] He was widely understood in literary circles to have turned down a knighthood and to have hankered after the more prestigious and exclusive British honour, the Order of Merit, saying to friends that the CH "means 'Well done, but'". First published in 1989, Mr Calder's attempt to encompass Maugham's life and work in one volume fits nicely between Ted Morgan's Maugham: A Biography (1980) and Jeffrey Meyers' Somerset Maugham: A Life (2004); as far as I know the only other detailed biography is the very recently (2009) published The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina . [152], Cakes and Ale combines humorous satire on the London literary scene and wry observations about love. Hastings comments that for the young Maugham the hardest thing to accept in abandoning religious faith was "the knowledge that with no expectation of an afterlife he would never see his mother again". , short story writer and introduced him to go to Heidelberg University to study in Paris, he. 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