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W. Somerset Maugham: Biography from Answers.com

For the next five years, he studied medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in Lambeth, London.
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The play was later adapted for film in 1929 and again in 1940.
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One of the great hits of the 1920s, Rain, was dramatized by other writers from one of his short stories.
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In the early 1930s he settled in the Villa Mauresque in the south of France, though he continued to travel widely.
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William Somerset Maugham was born of English parents in Paris, France, in 1874, and lived in France -- speaking only French -- until he lost both of his parents when he was 11.
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By 1940, when the collapse of France forced Maugham to leave the French Riviera and become a well-heeled refugee, he was already one of the most famous and wealthiest writers in the English- speaking world.
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At the age of 10, Maugham was orphaned and sent to England to live with his uncle, the Reverend Henry MacDonald Maugham.
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RKO Radio Pictures, dir. by John Cromwell, starring Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson; 1946, prod.
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Pictures, dir. by Edmund Gouldig, starring Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker; 1964, dir.
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Maugham once said, "Most people cannot see anything, but I can se what is in front of my nose with extreme clearness; the greatest writers can see through a brick wall.
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Sirpa Kauppinen, 1957) A MAN OF HONOUR, 1903 THE BISHOP'S APRON, 1906 THE MAGICIAN, 1908 - film 1926, prod.
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While in Capri, Maugham enjoyed the company of the homosexual and lesbian colony there.
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - The Quotations Page

Somerset Maugham It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Somerset Maugham It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Somerset Maugham - More quotations on: [Death] Excess on occasion is exhilarating.
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Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 - More quotations on: [Dignity] It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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Somerset Maugham online at The Literature Page At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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Somerset Maugham - The Caxton Club

A year after his publishing debut, he left London for Capri in Italy, beginning a lifelong pattern of travel and story-telling that became the Maugham persona for millions of readers.
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This play's distinction today is for the collector, and Maugham later referred to it as his scarcest work.
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However, Maugham had a severe stammer, which left him afraid to speak; so there were no plans for him to following the family tradition.
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In Crowley's The Diary of a Drug Fiend he refers to Maugham's portrayal of him as "malignant." However in 1907, Maugham achieved the fame and success that he had worked for.
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He became a man-about-town, the successful, rich, and witty satirist of British society.
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Maugham published Ashenden in 1928, a group of short stories based on his experience as a British espionage agent during World War I.
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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Biography

In Russia, he was given the rather mammoth job of attempting to prevent the Russian Revolution from starting.
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When the Nazis crossed into France and raced toward Paris, he too was forced to flee.
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"Slang is the great pitfall" he tells us in The Razor's Edge, then goes on to demonstrate a certain facility with both as he writes about the novel's central character, an American he calls Larry Darrell.
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A complex and interesting character, Somerset Maugham managed to catch much of the darker essence of Empire.
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His escape turned out to be a horrific twenty-day voyage to England.
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Somerset Maugham himself, at age sixty-six, was absconded in his villa in the south of France.
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W. Somerset Maugham - Free Online Library

The possible reasons for this are: You attempted to crawl (spider) the site.
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This may include the use of so called "site download" software.
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W. Somerset Maugham - Wikiquote

To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species. p.
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88 The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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156 (Doubleday, Doran and co., inc., 1941) He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories.
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Moses Mendelssohn, Briefe über die Empfindungen (1755) [edit] See also The Razor's Edge — the film adaptation of Maugham's novel [edit] External links Wikipedia has an article about: W.
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76 Sometimes misquoted as "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Sometimes misattributed to Bertrand Russell or Anatole France She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious. p.
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66 What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
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W. Somerset Maugham - New World Encyclopedia

Some of his more outstanding works in this genre include Rain, Footprints In The Jungle, and The Outstation.
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This article abides by terms of the Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 License (CC-by-sa), which may be used and disseminated with proper attribution.
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It is at this time that Maugham developed the stammer that would stay with him all his life, although it was sporadic and subject to mood and circumstance[6].
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As a result, he developed a talent for applying a wounding remark to those who displeased him.
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↑ Morgan, 1980, 227 ↑ Morgan, 1980, 226 ↑ Morgan, 1980, 206 ↑ Morgan, 1980, 245 & 264 ↑ Morgan, 1980, 495 ↑ Gore Vidal, February 1, 1990, The New York Review of Books, 10 ↑ Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson.
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In order not to hurt their feelings, I have often acted a passion I did not feel." A bitter attack on the deceased Syrie in his 1962 volume of memoirs, Looking Back lost him several friends.
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Somerset Maugham - Spartacus Educational

The book sold well and he decided to abandon medicine and become a full-time writer.
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By the time he was ten, both William's parents were dead and he was sent to live with his uncle, the Rev.
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On the outbreak of the First World War, Maugham, now aged forty, joined a Red Cross ambulance unit in France.
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Maugham agreed and over the next few years acted as a link between MI6 in London and its agents working in Europe.
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This was followed by another successful book, The Moon and Sixpence (1919).
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In his later years Maugham wrote his autobiography, Summing Up (1938) and works of fiction such as The Razor's Edge (1945), Catalina (1948) and Quartet (1949).
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William Somerset Maugham - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read ...

I read on Wikipedia that he was quoted for saying "I am in the front row of second-raters" or something like that.
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Can anyone help me to analyze this? what do i have to emphasize on this?
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William suffered from a stutter and his lack of proficiency in English and loss of his parents could not have helped matters when he was taunted and bullied by classmates.
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But the Parisian freedom is not the kind of freedom Philip craves.
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When Philip decides to go to medical school, he does it with the ambition of going to far off places to see and explore the world.
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While in America Maugham met the wife of Sir Henry Wellcome, Gwendolyn Maude Syrie Barnardo (1879-1955) with whom he had a daughter Elizabeth Mary Maugham "Liza" (1915-1981).
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About W. Somerset Maugham

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Know AllRainRedThe Lotus EaterThe Moon and SixpenceThe Outstation Timeline 1874 Born in paris1907 Lady Frederick01/01/1915 Of Human Bondage, the story of the painful growth to self-realization of a lonely, sensitive young physician with a clubfoot.1919 The Moon and Sixpence, based on the life of the French painter Paul Gauguin1921 The Circle1921 The Trembling of a Leaf1923 Our Betters1927 The Constant Wife1928 Ashenden: or The British Agent1928 Returning to settle in France in 1928, Maugham bought a villa in St.
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Somerset Maugham The Circle Character Analysis The Circle Summary - W.
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The moniker was a slang term for the unusually high number of literary greats (such as Ernest Hemingway and E.
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Maugham was one of the “Literary Ambulance Drivers” of World War I.
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Recommended Resources Of Human Bondage eText Of Human Bondage Study Guide (quickNotes) The Razor's Edge Study Guide (eNotes) W.
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Somerset Of Human Bondage Maugham Criticism Essays (Sir) Noël (Pierce) Coward Criticism | W.
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W. Somerset Maugham | Who2 Biographies

Extra credit: Maugham worked in the British intelligence department during World War I, and based his 1928 novel Ashenden on his experiences.
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Maugham's 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence was based loosely on the life of painter Paul Gauguin...
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In later years Maugham became known as a master of the short story.
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The book is considered a forerunner to many later spy novels of the 20th century, including the James Bond stories of Ian Fleming...
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W. Somerset Maugham - Biography - MSN Movies

By that time, the author's private life was something of an open secret -- he had returned to France in 1946 and was living openly with Alan Searle (Gerald Haxton had died in New York in 1944).
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The Moon and Sixpence came to the screen in 1943 as an independent production and played a peripheral but important role in bringing future producer/director Stanley Kramer into the movie business as a filmmaker; the latter movie also marked the first of two occasions on which Herbert Marshall portrayed the author on the screen.
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Although none of his novels after The Razor's Edge was commercially successful, screen adaptations of his work continued to appear intermittently during the 1960s, most notably After the Fox (1966).
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A pacifist work that took place between the two World Wars, and which was partly set in Chicago (where Maugham spent a major part of his stay in America), it was a critical and popular success, and set the stage for a new wave of screen activity.
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Somerset Maugham, or Somerset Maugham, as he is usually referred to, was perhaps the most respected English author of the 20th century to achieve a major presence in films; not only were many of his novels, short stories, and plays adapted into movies, but Maugham had the distinction of being portrayed on screen twice by Herbert Marshall.
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I don't know when I will have the time to add to it, but if anyone wants to know more about Maugham, feel free to email me at neil@jenman.com.au   2009        
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - BrainyQuote

Somerset Maugham Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
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Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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Somerset Maugham Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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Somerset Maugham At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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Somerset Maugham Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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W. Somerset Maugham - details - AMC - Story Matters Here

Inside Episode 501 & 502 Mad Men: A Little Kiss Matthew Weiner and the cast examine the tumultuous time period the show is entering and where each character stands at the start of season 5.
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Maugham was the highest paid author in the world during the 1930s, a decade in which (though he stopped writing plays after 1933) he also enjoyed his heyday on the screen, as adaptations of his writings appeared annually.
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Cast on Season 2: Inside The Killing “Some secrets you can't escape.” The cast of The Killing give us a taste of the intrigue that's in store for season 2.
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Finally hitting his stride as a popular writer, more successful plays and novels like The Explorer , The Magician , Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, and The Gentleman in the Parlour would soon follow over the coming decades.
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Sneak Peek Episode 201 The Killing: Reflections Sarah has difficulty connecting with her son Jack in this sneak peek from the season 2 premiere of The Killing.
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