Bibliography Books 16 Novels 20 Articles 189 Collections 16 Plays 25 Books edited 19 Unpublished plays 11 Collected editions 22 (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten.
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He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson; Maugham instead trained as a doctor, although he never practised professionally, as his first novel, was published the same year he qualified. A year after his first novel was published Maugham began contributing to magazines and periodicals; initially these were short stories, but he also wrote opinion pieces, non-fictional and autobiographical work, and letters.
Much of his non-fictional writing was published in book form, and covered a range of topics, including travel, current affairs, autobiography. Maugham was also editor on a number of works, which often included adding a preface or introductory chapter to the work of other writers. In 1903 his first play was performed, A Man of Honour at the. It was the first of many of his works that were produced for the stage, and with the later development of cinema, his novels and stories were also adapted for the big screen. By the time of his death in 1965 Maugham was one of the most commercially successful and gifted writers of the twentieth century, according to Bryan Connon, his biographer; obituarist called Maugham 'the most assured English writer of his time', and wrote that 'no writer of his generation. Graced the world of English letters with more complete or more polished assurance'. Frontispiece for The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921 Novels and story collections of W.
Somerset Maugham Title Year of first publication First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) Notes Ref. Cover and frontispiece for The Venture (1903) Works which W. Somerset Maugham edited Title Year of first publication Author First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) Notes Ref. The Venture Annual of Art and Literature 1903 Baillie, London Co-edited with The Venture Annual of Art and Literature, 1905 1905 Simpkin Marshall, London Co-edited with The Truth at Last 1924 Little, New York Traveller's Library 1933 New York Reissued the same year as Fifty Modern English Writers Wisdom of Life: An Anthology of Noble Thoughts 1938 Watts, London With The House with the Green Shutters 1938 George Douglas, Oxford With introduction Tellers of Tales: One Hundred Short Stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany 1939, New York Great Modern Reading: W. Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Modern English and American Literature 1943, New York 1948 Winston, New York 1948 Winston, New York 1949 Winston, New York 1949 Winston, New York 1949 Winston, New York 1949 Winston, New York 1949 Winston, New York 1949 Winston, New York 1949 Winston, New York 1949 Winston, New York A Choice of Kipling's Prose 1952, New York Plays.
And in a 1953 staging of The Constant Wife The published plays of W. Somerset Maugham Title Date of first performance Location of first performance Publisher Date of publication Notes Ref. Caricature of Maugham, unknown date Unpublished plays by W. Somerset Maugham Title Date of first performance Location of first performance Notes Mademoiselle Zampa 1904 Ran for 20 performances only A Trip to Brighton 1911 London Adaptation of a play by Mrs. Beamish Not performed A comedy in three acts; written in 1917 Under the Circumstances Not performed A comedy in three acts The Keys to Heaven Not performed A comedy in three acts; written in 1917 Love in a Cottage 27 January 1918 A comedy in three acts; written in 1917 Not To-Night, Josephine!
Not performed A farce; written in 1919 The Camel's Back 29 October 1923 Worcester Theatre, Worcester, MA A play in three acts; written in 1924 The Road Uphill Not performed A play in three acts; written in 1924 The Force of Nature Not performed A play in three acts; written in 1928 The Mask and the Face May 1933 Adaptation of a play by Non-fiction. Maugham in his early career Title Year of first publication First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) Topic Ref., pp. 16–20.
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