W. Somerset Maugham

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....

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

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

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....

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art....

With the South Seas as a background for such stories as "The Pacific", "Red", "Rain", and "The Pool", we experience scenes of passionate love, tragedy, and violence....

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Scottish Literature....

Based on the life of Postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence builds on a long tradition of European writing about the South Pacific as an exotic locale....

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

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....

This classic collection includes seven life-changing stories with ironic twists of fate, which can inform the young about their choices in life and recall the choices older people have made between success and happiness, duty and pleasure, and much more....

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

In this elegant comedy of manners, Penelope O'Farrell discovers that her husband has been having an affair with an attractive married woman....

The Narrow Corner is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, published by William Heinemann in 1932.

La narrativa se desarrolla en un ambiente de conflictos políticos y luchas de poder, donde la esposa del general se convierte en una figura central, no solo...

El sacristán, un hombre de firme convicción y dedicación a su iglesia, se encuentra de repente en una encrucijada, enfrentándose a dilemas morales y...

Las Tres Gordas de Antibes es un relato corto ingenioso y divertido de Somerset Maugham, que combina humor y observación social aguda. Ambientada en la...

El protagonista de la historia es un joven audaz, hábil en el arte del engaño y la estrategia, que se encuentra en el juego de su vida. En una mesa donde se...

Terence, con su ingenio agudo y su carisma enigmático, se ve envuelto en un triángulo amoroso que desafía no solo las convenciones sociales, sino también...

Ambientada en un exótico paraje lejano, la historia sigue a cuatro amigos holandeses, cada uno con su propia personalidad y perspectiva de la vida...