[107] Maugham was happy for him and was reconciled to the possibility of returning to La Mauresque without him after the war. This happens in the end to most dramatists, and they are wise to accept the warning. [65] He was reunited with Haxton, who joined him as secretary-companion. [31] The first print run sold out within three weeks and a reprint was quickly arranged. The protagonist of the story is Roger Charing, a tall, handsome, rich, experienced middle-aged man. 3 synonyms for Somerset Maugham: Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham, William Somerset Maugham. [85] They divorced in 1929. William ('W.') Somerset Maugham. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. The new vicar dismisses the verger for being illiterate. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. [106], Haxton was holding down a responsible job in Washington and enjoying his new independence and self-reliance. 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 . He was acquitted, but was nonetheless registered as an "undesirable alien". While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. [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. 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]. [36], The Making of a Saint, a historical novel, attracted less attention than Liza of Lambeth and its sales were unremarkable. He drew upon his experiences as an obstetrician in his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), and its success, though small, encouraged him to abandon medicine. The early death of his parents and his consequent exile from home and country gave Somerset Maugham a wretched start in life. Maugham, (William) Somerset (1874-1965) British novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist, b. France. Her Fortnite livestreams have helped her amass more than 800,000 followers. He had a slight limp, and he walked slowly, leant on a stick. His aunt, who was German, arranged accommodation for him, and aged sixteen he travelled to Germany. [186], The critic Philip Holden wrote in 2006 that Maugham occupies a paradoxical position in twentieth-century British literature. In May 1917 they married at a ceremony in New Jersey. [70] He arrived in Petrograd in August, too late to influence the outcome: in November, Kerensky was supplanted by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who took Russia out of the war. W. Somerset Maugham (1954). Maugham's novels after Liza of Lambeth include Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), The Painted Veil (1925), Cakes and Ale (1930) and The Razor's Edge (1944). Incidentally, W. Somerset Maugham inspired some mimesis of his own. Namnteckning. W. Somerset Maugham (The Moon and Sixpence) " He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. If you like W. Somerset Maugham, you might also like: E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and John Fowles. [20] A modest legacy from his father enabled him to go to Heidelberg University to study. [153] Rosie appears to be based on Sue Jones, to whom Maugham had proposed in 1913. And in one way or another however indirectly all I've written during the last twenty years has something to do with him".[109]. Part one of two of four stories from Somerset's Quartet film. [150] Unlike many of Maugham's later novels it has an unequivocally tragic ending. 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". Summary []. Syrie Wellcome. I saw what hope looked like, fear and relief; I saw the dark lines that despair drew on a face. I saw how they bore pain. He was the son of a British diplomat. [123] Nonetheless, his final years, according to Connon, were marred by increasing senility, misguided legal disputes and a memoir, published in 1962, Looking Back, in which "he denigrated his late former wife, was dismissive of Haxton, and made a clumsy attempt to deny his homosexuality by claiming he was a red-blooded heterosexual". Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. [73], As in his novels and short stories, Maugham's plots are clear and his dialogue naturalistic. [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. First, Maugham died two years before Britain's decriminalization in 1967 of same-gender sex behavior. [99], Throughout the decade Maugham, with Haxton in attendance, lived and entertained lavishly at his house on Cap Ferrat, the Villa La Mauresque. 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! Part 2 also available on my channel as well as all parts from his other films Trio and Encore. What are synonyms for Somerset Maugham? W. Somerset Maugham. Julia came in. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. [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. I did so with relief. Second, Maugham was what Northrop Frye. She has often played with fellow Fortnite gamer, Clix. To order The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham for 23 with free UK p&p call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846. 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. [96], Maugham's days of lengthy trips to distant places were mostly behind him, but at Kipling's suggestion he sailed to the West Indies in 1936. He traveled in Spain and Italy and in 1908 achieved a theatrical triumphfour plays running in London at oncethat brought him financial security. [42], Maugham later said that he made comparatively little money from this unprecedented theatrical achievement, but it made his reputation. 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. Antonyms for Somerset Maugham. The Maharshi was of average height for an Indian, of a dark honey colour with close-cropped white hair and a close-cropped white beard. He was born at the British Embassy in Paris. [43] Punch printed a cartoon of Shakespeare's ghost looking concerned about the ubiquity of Maugham's plays. But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale. [n 17] He was a Commandeur of the Legion of Honour, and an honorary doctor of the universities of Oxford and Toulouse. The length of his literary career alone makes him a special case. 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). [76], After the war Maugham had to choose between living in Britain or being with Haxton, because the latter was refused admission to the country. He made himself comfortable there, filled many notebooks with literary ideas, and continued writing nightly, while studying for his medical degree. [73] Most were first published in weekly or monthly magazines and later collected in book form. Entdecke Where to Watch Birds in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire by Ken Hall (Eng in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Maugham usually published his works under the name of W. Somerset Maugham. Author dvdnt [pro] 132. While there, he established and endowed the Somerset Maugham Award, to be administered by the Society of Authors and given annually for a work of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry written by a British subject under the age of thirty-five. [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). Publisher: Franklin Classics. As a result, they undergo many trials and change as a result or they don't, if it's a tragedy. Suffering from a bad stammer, he received a classic public school education at King's school in . 25 and 68, Sternlicht, p. 72; Innes p. 254; Rogal, p. 247 and Curtis, p. 398, Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 08:19, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, W. Somerset Maugham on stage and screen Plays, List of works by W. Somerset Maugham Novels and story collections, W. Somerset Maugham on stage and screen Film adaptations, " In Fine Society, Infidelity and Its Consequences", "The 100 best novels: No 44 Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915)", "Somerset Maugham's Ethically Earnest Fiction", "W. Somerset Maugham's apocryphal second-rate status: setting the record straight", "W. Somerset Maugham: Theme and Variations", Works by W. Somerset Maugham in eBook form, Works by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham, National Theatre, Maugham's Theatrical Collection, National Theatre, Shakespearean Characters, William Somerset Maugham's stories on Malaya, Borneo and Singapore, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W._Somerset_Maugham&oldid=1140893483, This page was last edited on 22 February 2023, at 08:19. [5][n 6], After the birth of his daughter, Maugham moved to Switzerland. The hero survives, and by the end of the book he is evidently set for a happy ending. [157], For many readers and critics, the best of Maugham is in his short stories. He became a father and husband, marrying Syrie Wellcome in 1917, three years into an affair that produced their daughter, Liza. 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. [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. After another long trip to the Far East, he agreed with Syrie that they would live separately, she in London and he at Cap Ferrat in the south of France. During his time in Heidelberg he had his first sexual affair; it was with John Ellingham Brooks, an Englishman ten years his senior. He was an English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work is characterized by a clear unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human nature. Authors. [144] Trewin singles out The Circle, calling it one of the great comedies of the 20th century, and comparing it with Congreve's The Way of the World, to the disadvantage of the latter: "He can put Congreve to shame in the task of telling a theatrical story telling it clearly and without inessentials". Although primarily homosexual, he attempted to conform to some extent with the norms of his day. Item Weight: 717g. Of their seven children, three died in infancy. His short stories were published in collections such as The Casuarina Tree (1926) and The Mixture as Before (1940); many of them have been adapted for radio, cinema and television. William Somerset Maugham ( Prizs, 1874. janur 25. RAIN VIII. Postscript on 5/13 : I thought the name Joo Cezar de Castro Rocha sounded familiar - he's one of Ren Girard . They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. - Nizza, 1965. december 16.) Some of the short stories will undoubtedly prove immortal". William Somerset Maugham was an English author and playwright. She began posting to Twitch in June 2019. 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. [175], In Calder's view Maugham's "ability to tell a fascinating story and his dramatic skill" appealed strongly to the makers of films and radio programmes, but his liberal attitudes, disregard of conventional morality and unsentimental view of humanity led adapters to make his stories "blander, safer, and more narrowly moralistic than he had ever conceived them". [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. For the next year and a half he studied literature, philosophy and German. W. Somerset Maugham. [193] Lee Wilson Dodd wrote, "Mr Maugham knows how to plan a story and carry it through. He found Mediterranean lands much to his liking, for what his biographer Frederic Raphael calls their "douceur de vivre missing under grim English skies". Alternate titles: William Somerset Maugham. He told Nol Coward in 1933: Maugham's thirty-second and last play was Sheppey (1933). [5] Maugham wrote his first book while in Heidelberg, a biography of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, but it was not accepted for publication and the author destroyed the manuscript. We will update W. Somerset Maugham's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. [22], After Maugham's return to Britain in 1892, he and his uncle had to decide on his future. Maugham was orphaned at the age of 10; he was brought up by an uncle and educated at Kings School, Canterbury. One recalls, too, the long list of movies that have been made from his novels . [41] By the next year, while the run of Lady Frederick continued, Maugham had three other plays running simultaneously in London. 1 Childhood and education; 2 Career. [62] His covert job, which was in violation of Switzerland's neutrality laws,[n 7] was to coordinate the work of British agents in enemy territory and dispatch their information to London. Last edit on Apr 05, 2021. Maugham believed that "it is the impressions of a man's first twenty years which form him", and at the age of 53 - and extracted from his turbulent marriage to Syrie Wellcome - he had chosen to look back at his boyhood on the Kentish coast and at his early adulthood as a medical student in London. Somerset Maugham (1874 -- 1965) grew to fit Brady's bill as a writer. 27, 59, 143 and 295, Mander and Mitchenson, p. 15; and Richards, pp. [61] He was recruited by Sir John Wallinger, a friend of Syrie, portrayed as the spymaster "R" in the Ashenden stories Maugham wrote after the war. [191] Virginia Woolf was friendly though a little patronising;[192] Lytton Strachey disparaged one of his books as "Class II, Division I". Peaches were not in season then. [154] He observed, "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work. [47] In 1913 he proposed to the actress Sue Jones, daughter of the playwright Henry Arthur Jones;[48] she declined his offer. Number of Pages: In November 1916 Maugham was asked by the intelligence service to go to the South Seas. [16][n 4], From 1885 to 1890 Maugham attended The King's School, Canterbury, where he was regarded as an outsider and teased for his poor English (French had been his first language), his short stature, his stammer, and his lack of interest in sport. His work was popular for his simple style of writing, as well as his sharp and accurate understanding and judgment of human nature. [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". In the US they spent time in Hollywood, which Maugham despised from the first, but found highly remunerative. Under 1. verdenskrig var han hemmelig agent i Rusland; hans spionroman Ashenden: Or the British Agent (1928; "Ashenden: Den hemmelige agent") bygger p denne erfaring. In addition, Carey has a. [21] Brooks encouraged Maugham's ambitions to be a writer and introduced him to the works of Schopenhauer and Spinoza. Maugham's plain prose style became known for its lucidity, but his reliance on clichs attracted adverse critical comment. William Somerset Maugham Theatre I THE door opened and Michael Gosselyn looked up. By the early 1930s Maugham had grown tired of the theatre. They lived together in the French Riviera, where Maugham entertained lavishly. . [180] Titles were altered to avoid association with stage plays held to be sensational: Rain became Sadie Thompson and The Constant Wife became Charming Sinners. He remained covert in his life and in his writings. [82] In 192223 Maugham's next extended trip was in south and east Asia, with stops at Colombo, Rangoon, Mandalay, Bangkok and Hanoi. 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". [160], The stories range from the short sketches of On a Chinese Screen, which he had written during his 1920 travels through China and Hong Kong, to many, mostly serious, short stories dealing with the lives of British and other colonial expatriates in the Pacific Islands and Asia. Rodie ale brzy zemeli, take se vrtil do Anglie k pbuznm. Item Height: 234mm. 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. Between 1903 and 1906 he wrote two more plays, a travel book and two novels, but his next big commercial and critical success did not come until October 1907, when his comedy Lady Frederick opened at the Court Theatre in London. 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. W. Somerset Maugham; April 1948 Issue; The Brothers Karamazov. [n 13] He was cremated in Marseille on 20 December. [71], By that time Maugham was ill with tuberculosis. [103], Maugham spent most of the war years in the US, based for much of the time at a comfortable house on the estate of his American publisher, Nelson Doubleday. . Childhood and education. [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. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Maugham wrote of Haxton: After the South Seas trip Maugham visited the US and was joined by Syrie. [143] When Maugham's The Circle was revived in the US in 2011, the reviewer in The New York Times wrote that the play had been criticised "for not having anything substantial to say about love, marriage or infidelity. His stories the first in the genre of spy fiction continued by Ian Fleming, John le Carr and many others[169] are based so closely on Maugham's experiences that it was not until ten years after the war ended that the security services permitted their publication. [10] Maugham never greatly liked his middle name which commemorated a great-uncle named after General Sir Henry Somerset[11] and was known by family and friends throughout his life as "Willie". [139] The critic J. C. Trewin writes, "His dialogue, unlike that of many of his contemporaries, is designed to be spoken Maugham does not write elaborately visual prose: that is, it does not make a fussy pattern on the page". [5], In 1915 Syrie Wellcome became pregnant, and in September, while Maugham was on leave to be with her, she gave birth to their only child, Mary Elizabeth, known as Liza. Maugham died in the Anglo-American Hospital in Nice on the night of 1516 December 1965 at the age of 91, of complications following a fall. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. After all, he has only one life. [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". W. Somerset Maugham, in full William Somerset Maugham, (born Jan. 25, 1874, Paris, Francedied Dec. 16, 1965, Nice), English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work is characterized by a clear unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human nature. Maugham's first successful novel was the semi-autobiographical Of Human Bondage (1915). He studied in Dune and qualified as a doctor, but found his calling in writing. 6 and 9798, Mander and Mitchenson, pp. MR. KNOW-ALL / Somerset Maugham () Bridging Text and Context: Write 80 - 100 words. Gamer who has gained fame for her Sommerset Twitch channel. He is never boring or clumsy, he never gives a false impression; he is never shocking; but this very diplomatic polish makes impossible for him any of those sudden transcendent flashes of passion and beauty which less competent novelists occasionally attain. [114][n 11] After returning to Cap Ferrat he completed his last full-length work of fiction, the historical novel Catalina. [116] He did the same on American television, introducing the Somerset Maugham Theater series, which a reviewer said enjoyed "tremendous popularity and has won for him an audience of millions of enthusiastic fans". 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. Maugham is a British writer of great repute and has had one of the most successful literary careers in the twentieth century. His grandfather, Robert Maugham (17881862), was a prominent solicitor and co-founder of the Law Society of England and Wales. [120] Morgan observes: Although most of Maugham's early successes were as a dramatist, it is for his novels and short stories that he has been best known since the 1930s. [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. 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). What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. Maugham said, "Sometimes it fills me with uneasiness that no less than thirteen persons should spend their lives administering to the comfort of one old party". [1] Maugham trained as a medical doctor at St. Thomas's hospital's medical school, London, but then decided to become a full-time writer. 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. [65] Samoa was regarded as crucial to Britain's strategic interests, and Maugham's task was to gather information about the island's powerful radio transmitter and the threat from German military and naval forces in the region. Size 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall; Keywords Limited edition; Size 8vo - over 7 - 9\" tall; Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different. 'Mr. Know-All' is a heart-rending story of a big talker who saved the marriage of a modest woman. 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 . [55] When the book was published in 1915 some of the initial reviews were favourable but many, both in Britain and in the US, were unenthusiastic. Mary Elizabeth Maugham. [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. Maugham's British and American publishers issued and reissued various, sometimes overlapping, permutations during his lifetime and subsequently. He moved to the United States where he led a very quiet life and went back after the war in 1944. Maugham's alienation started in childhood. Maugham further damaged his own reputation by denying that another character, Alroy Kear a superficial novelist of more pushy ambition than literary talent was a caricature of Hugh Walpole. [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". [56] The tide of opinion was turned by the influential American novelist and critic Theodore Dreiser, who called Maugham a great artist and the book a work of genius, of the utmost importance, comparable to a Beethoven symphony. The marriage lasted for twelve years, but before, during and after it, Maugham's principal partner was a younger man, Gerald Haxton. [72] In the same year Maugham published one of his best-known novels,[73] The Moon and Sixpence, about a respectable stockbroker who rebels against conformity, abandons his wife and children, flees to Tahiti and becomes a painter. [108] Maugham was distraught; he told his nephew, Robin, "You'll never know how great a grief this has been to me. [105] His most substantial book from the war years was The Razor's Edge; he found writing it unusually tiring he was seventy when it was completed and he vowed it would be the last long novel he wrote. [77] When in Britain, Maugham lived with his wife at their house in Marylebone, but the couple were temperamentally incompatible, and their relationship grew increasingly fractious. [12], Maugham's mother died of tuberculosis in January 1882, a few days after his eighth birthday. Between 1908 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Maugham wrote a further eight plays,[44] but his stage successes did not completely distract him from writing novels. [n 3] Robert Maugham handled the legal affairs of the British Embassy there, as his eldest surviving son, Charles, later did. [78] He spent much time travelling with Haxton. William Somerset Maugham CH was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. Incidentally, W. 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