Written by W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage is a novel with autobiographic nature written by W. Somerset Maugham, a British dramatist remembered for his numerous novels and short stories such as The Seventh Sin, The Hour Before the Dawn, Miss Sadie Thompson and The Magician. Philip Carey born with club foot, becomes orphan at the age of nine years, find shelter with his A..

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

The Moon and Sixpence is a biographic novel inspired from the real life of Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, written by the British novelist William Somerset Maugham, remembered for his masterpiece Of Human Bondage. The Moon and Sixpence, narrates the story of Strickland, a London stockbroker who leaves his wife and children and moves to Paris aspiring..

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan."She pointed to his shoes. He tried to put them on, but his nervousn..