Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet....

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living in Switzerland. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many European countries, he was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play.

One of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage, gives a harrowing depiction of unrequited love....

In the winter of 1919 Somerset Maugham, at the age of 45, undertook an arduous journey up the Yangtze River in China....

When beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane's husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic....

Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay....

re have been few masters of the short story as popular as W. S. Maugham....

In volume three of this series, we present all of the remaining short stories which Maugham published after World War I and which he subsequently caused to be republished in various collections....

When noted English writer William Somerset Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his health, he gathered the materials and wrote the stories represented here....

William Somerset Maugham's remarkable first novel was such an instant success that the 23-year-old...

On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past....

The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition....

Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire....

William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory....

Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers....

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy....

Somerset Maugham is one of the best-loved short story writers of the last 100 years....

In June 1917, W. S. Maugham was asked by the British Secret Intelligence Service, to undertake a special mission in Russia to support Kerensky's government.....

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter....