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The secret lives of Somerset Maugham : a biography / Selina Hastings
Bib ID 5447986
Format BookBook
Author
Hastings, Selina
 
Edition 1st U.S. ed. 
Description New York : Random House, c2009, 2010. 
626 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 9781400061419 (hbk.)  1400061415 (acid-free paper) 
Summary

He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham's own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham's personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor's Edge and Of Human Bondage.

Full contents
  • A Blackstable boyhood
  • At St. Thomas's Hospital
  • A writer by instinct
  • Le chat blanc
  • England's dramatist
  • Syrie
  • Code name "Somerville"
  • Behind The painted veil
  • A world of veranda and prahu
  • Separation
 
Notes

"This work was originally published in the United Kingdom by John Murray Publishers, London, in 2009, in a slightly different form"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-602) and index.

Subjects Maugham, W. Somerset - (William Somerset), - 1874-1965.  |  Authors, English - 20th century - Biography.

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