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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....

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....

A parallel story to the life of Paul Gauguin leaving everything for Tahiti and his separation from the rest of the world, with remarkable portraits of those along the way....

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

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

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers...

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

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was....

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....

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

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Four is the fourth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Four features 12 timeless works that largely focuses on the greats of American and British literature.

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....

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

El gran novelista ingles Sumerset Maugham se aparto de sus acostumbradas obras de exploracion psicologica en La Luna y Seis Peniques....

A rich widow finds that the man she wishes to marry is already engaged. He has just suddenly become a peer and cannot, he thinks, break his promise....

The Painted Veil is the story of Kitty Garstin, a young socialite who amuses herself with the pursuit of various men until settling into a marriage with a physician, who takes her to Hong Kong to begin his work....

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

La historia gira en torno a un enigmático retrato que capta la atención y la curiosidad de todos los que lo ven. Este no es un retrato ordinario; en él se...

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

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...