W. Somerset Maugham

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1) The Moon and Sixpence

Author

Maugham, W. Somerset

Series

iBoo Classics

Publisher

Duke Classics

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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The Moon and Sixpence (1919) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Maugham set out to capture, the disconnect between an artist's desire, to create and their obligations to their loved ones and society. Praised for its multifaceted portrayal of tortured genius and wasted talent, The Moon and Sixpence explores the distance between expectation and desire in a man whose decisions, however, hastily made,...

2) The Narrow Corner

Author

Maugham, W. Somerset

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2012

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers. Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means of transportation is hard to resist. The trip turns turbulent, however, when a vicious storm forces them to seek shelter on the...

3) Of human bondage

Author

Maugham, W. Somerset

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

4) The Razor's edge: a novel

Author

Maugham, W. Somerset

Series

Recorded Books classics library

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out...