Born in Paris, where his father ran a law firm, he was orphaned by the age of ten and packed off to England, where his three older brothers were already. William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874- 16 December 1965) was an English novelist, short story writer and playwright. William Somerset Maugham[a]CH (/mm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Hastings comments that for the young Maugham the hardest thing to accept in abandoning religious faith was "the knowledge that with no expectation of an afterlife he would never see his mother again". Died: December 16, 1965, in Nice, France. 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. The lifelong ban followed his arrest and trial over a homosexual incident in 1915. This happens in the end to most dramatists, and they are wise to accept the warning. Namnteckning. She has often played with fellow Fortnite gamer, Clix. Maugham's British and American publishers issued and reissued various, sometimes overlapping, permutations during his lifetime and subsequently. In 1940, W Somerset Maugham was forced to flee France as the Nazis invaded. William Somerset Maugham, British playwright and novelist, was one of the most reputed and well-known writers of his era, and one of the highest-paid authors of his time. Morgan describes him: Maugham's biographers have differed considerably about Searle's character and his influence for better or worse on his employer. Updates? Like Of Human Bondage it has a strong female character at its centre, but the two are polar opposites: the malign Mildred in the earlier novel contrasts with the lovable, and much loved, Rosie in Cakes and Ale. Although he was an important influence on many well-known writers, "Maugham's critical stock has remained low". Maugham was orphaned at the age of 10; he was brought up by an uncle and educated at Kings School, Canterbury. He was selected by Sir William Wiseman of British Intelligence to go to Russia, where the overthrow of the monarchy threatened to lead to a Russian withdrawal from the war. [80] They then visited San Francisco and sailed to Honolulu and Australia before the final leg of their voyage, to Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, where they remained for six months. They are motivated by their passions or emotions and by their attempts to control their destinies, not by an ideology or set of ideals. "Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division", Coward, p. 226; and Mander and Mitchenson, pp. [22] A family friend found Maugham a position in an accountant's office in London, which he endured for a month before resigning. Item Height: 234mm. The Razor's Edge by W Somerset Maugham (Bill Murray Cover) (Paperback, Fiction) 1984. "[33], Before the publication of his next novel, The Making of a Saint (1898), Maugham travelled to Spain. [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. Many of his works were highly praised: the novels Of Human Bondage , Cakes and Ale , The Razor's Edge , and The Moon and Sixpence ; short stories such as "Rain" and "The Outstation"; and his plays Lady . Sources differ (see footnote 1) on whether Maugham died on 15 or 16 December, but it is generally agreed that to circumvent a law requiring autopsies in cases of death in hospital, he was taken by ambulance, shortly before or shortly after his death, to La Mauresque and it was announced that he had died there on 16 December. Somerset Maugham. [119] He was widely understood in literary circles to have turned down a knighthood and to have hankered after the more prestigious and exclusive British honour, the Order of Merit, saying to friends that the CH "means 'Well done, but'". An instinctive and magnificent storyteller, Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful writers of his time. He did not use them, like, There are times when one thinks that British television and radio would have to shut up shop if there were not an apparently inexhaustible supply of stories by Maugham to turn into 30-minute plays. [78] He spent much time travelling with Haxton. [134] After his early writing, in which long sentences are punctuated with semicolons and commas, Maugham came to favour short, direct sentences. 245246. [186], The critic Philip Holden wrote in 2006 that Maugham occupies a paradoxical position in twentieth-century British literature. [110] He came from Bermondsey, a poor district of London. W. Somerset Maugham (The Moon and Sixpence) " He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. Support your answer with examples from the story. [158][159] Raphael writes that Maugham became widely regarded as the supreme English exponent of the form "both the magazine squib and the more elaborate conte". [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. I saw what hope looked like, fear and relief; I saw the dark lines that despair drew on a face. the son of a tailor, he dropped his aitches like one of the characters in, Winter and spring at the Mauresque, a few weeks of foreign travel (Austria, Italy, Spain) with a stay at a spa (, Maugham, the disbeliever in ecclesiastical ritual, was buried without ritual but on hallowed ground. [40] It ran for 422 performances at five different West End theatres. Corrections? 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 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. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. [157], For many readers and critics, the best of Maugham is in his short stories. By the early 1930s Maugham had grown tired of the theatre. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. It is very natural". His lifestyle was modest: he felt that despite his considerable wealth he should not live luxuriously while Britain was enduring wartime privations. [154] He observed, "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work. [58] The baby was legally the daughter of Henry Wellcome, although he had not seen his wife for many years. . William Somerset Maugham ( Prizs, 1874. janur 25. The play was first presented in New York in 1917, running for 112 performances. Died. [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. W. Somerset Maugham. Publisher: Franklin Classics. [44] Too old to enlist when the First World War broke out, he served in France as a volunteer ambulance driver for the British Red Cross. Antonyms for Somerset Maugham. Culture; Somerset Maugham; Reuse this content. As a result, they undergo many trials and change as a result or they don't, if it's a tragedy. 6 and 9798, Mander and Mitchenson, pp. [15] Maugham's biographer Selina Hastings describes as "the first step in Maugham's loss of faith" his disillusion when the God in whom he had been taught to believe failed to answer his prayers for relief from his troubles. Peaches were not in season then. [156] The structure of the book is unusual in that the protagonist is already dead before the novel opens, and the narrator attempts to piece together his story, and particularly his final years in Tahitian exile. 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". He had an amiability of disposition that enabled him in a very short time to make friends with people in ships, clubs, bar-rooms, and hotels, so that through him I was able to get into easy contact with an immense number of persons whom otherwise I should have known only from a distance. [n 3] Robert Maugham handled the legal affairs of the British Embassy there, as his eldest surviving son, Charles, later did. The hero survives, and by the end of the book he is evidently set for a happy ending. "Mr Somerset Maugham's Library for School", Lyttelton and Hart-Davis (1984), pp. W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham was miserable, both at the vicarage and at school, where he was bullied because of his small size and his stammer. But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale. At the start of the same war William Somerset Maugham, who chronicled my mentor's life, joined a Red Cross unit in France and served as an ambulance driver, becoming one of what later became to be known as the Literary Ambulance Drivers. [176] Some of his stories were judged too improper for the cinema; Calder cites an adaptation of the historical novel Then and Now which the Hays Office rejected for thirty-seven separate reasons. [49] In 1914 he began an affair with Syrie Wellcome, whom he had known since 1910. "[98] He visited the Hindu sage Ramana Maharishi at his ashram, and later used him as the model for the spiritual guru of his 1944 novel The Razor's Edge. Somerset Maugham (1874 -- 1965) grew to fit Brady's bill as a writer. [13] Two and a half years after his mother's death his father died, and Maugham was sent to England to live with his paternal uncle Henry MacDonald Maugham, the vicar of Whitstable in Kent. [138] Raphael remarks about Maugham as a playwright, "His wit was sharp but rarely distressing; his plots abounded in amusing situations, his characters were usually drawn from the same class as his audiences and managed at once to satirize and delight their originals". She began posting to Twitch in June 2019. E.M. Forster. [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". [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. Last edit on Apr 05, 2021. 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. The length of his literary career alone makes him a special case. [108] Maugham was distraught; he told his nephew, Robin, "You'll never know how great a grief this has been to me. [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. [79], In late 1920 Maugham and Haxton set out on a trip that lasted more than a year. [37] Maugham continued to write assiduously and within five years he published two more novels and a collection of short stories, and had his first play produced; but a success to match that of his first book eluded him. "[26], Maugham took rooms in Westminster, across the Thames from the hospital. [189] Some biographers have doubted Maugham's claim to be unresentful at being overlooked or dismissed by literary critics, but there is little doubt that he was right about it. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, France (legally considered British soil), Maugham endured a traumatic childhood, orphaned at ten when his mother died from tuberculosis and his father died from cancer. Gosselyn was a tall, stoutish, elderly woman, much taller than her husband, who gave you the impression that she was always trying to diminish her height. If you like W. Somerset Maugham, you might also like: E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and John Fowles. It was written in 1915 and staged in New York in 1917, for a satisfactory but not unusual 112 performances, but when produced in the West End in 1923 it was played 548 times. Somerset Maugham became famous for his many novels, short stories, travel books, and plays. Somerset Maugham ? The first volume, Orientations, came out in 1898 and his last, Creatures of Circumstance, in 1947, with seven others between the two. Omissions? It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it . [73] He saw little of Haxton, who undertook war work in Washington DC. [73] He was a prolific writer: between 1902 and 1933 he had 32 plays staged, and between 1897 and 1962 he published 19 novels, nine volumes of short stories, and non-fiction books covering travel, reminiscences, essays and extracts from his notebooks. The new vicar dismisses the verger for being illiterate. Although Maugham's former reputation has become somewhat eclipsed. [41] By the next year, while the run of Lady Frederick continued, Maugham had three other plays running simultaneously in London. "Mr. Maugham Himself". [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". [146] In London, the National Theatre has presented two Maugham plays since its inception in 1963: Home and Beauty in 1968 and For Services Rendered in 1979. [149], Liza of Lambeth caused outrage in some quarters, not only because its heroine sleeps with a married man, but also for its graphic depiction of the deprivation and squalor of the London slums, of which most people from Maugham's social class preferred to remain ignorant. [153] Rosie appears to be based on Sue Jones, to whom Maugham had proposed in 1913. [190] L. A. G. Strong acknowledged his craftsmanship, but described his writing as having an effect like "that of music expertly played in an expensive restaurant at dinner". I did so with relief. Part one of two of four stories from Somerset's Quartet film. William Somerset Maugham[n 2] CH (/mm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 16 December 1965)[n 1] was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. [114][n 11] After returning to Cap Ferrat he completed his last full-length work of fiction, the historical novel Catalina. [84] By 1925, Maugham, learning that his wife was spreading scandal about his private life and had taken lovers of her own, was reconsidering his future. In The Summing Up (1938) and A Writers Notebook (1949) Maugham explains his philosophy of life as a resigned atheism and a certain skepticism about the extent of mans innate goodness and intelligence; it is this that gives his work its astringent cynicism. He entered the marriage from a sense of duty rather than from personal inclination, and the two quickly began to grow apart. His style is without a trace of imaginative beauty. [93] Despite some help from Coward in the drafting and having Ralph Richardson as star and John Gielgud as director, it ran for a modest 83 performances. [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 later said that for him her loss was "a wound that never entirely healed" and even in old age he kept her photograph at his bedside. Summary []. 3 synonyms for Somerset Maugham: Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham, William Somerset Maugham. 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. 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. "[155], The Moon and Sixpence is the story of a man rejecting a conventional lifestyle, family obligations and social responsibility to indulge his ambition to be a painter. [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. [66] In addition to his intelligence work, Maugham gathered material for his fiction wherever he went. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. While there he wrote a farce, Home and Beauty, which was presented at the Playhouse Theatre in August 1919 starring Gladys Cooper and Charles Hawtrey. [97] During a visit to India in 1938 he found his interest prompted less by the British expatriates than by Indian philosophers and ascetics: "As soon as the Maharajas realized that I didn't want to go on tiger hunts but that I was interested in seeing poets and philosophers they were very helpful. We will try to find the right answer to this particular crossword clue. 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. Nice. He qualified as a doctor in 1897, but pursued his passion for writing following the publication of his . 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. Although primarily homosexual, he attempted to conform to some extent with the norms of his day. 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. [170] In the 1928 volume Ashenden features in sixteen stories; two years later he reappeared, in his peacetime role of writer, as the narrator of Cakes and Ale. The Internet Broadway Database in 2022 records three productions since the author's death: The Constant Wife directed by Gielgud and starring Ingrid Bergman in 1975; The Circle, starring Rex Harrison, Stewart Granger and Glynis Johns in 198990; and another production of The Constant Wife, with Kate Burton in the title role. He was the highest paid author of the 1930s. In addition, Carey has a. [31] The first print run sold out within three weeks and a reprint was quickly arranged. Find The Judgment Seat by W. Somerset Maugham - 1934. [73], As in his novels and short stories, Maugham's plots are clear and his dialogue naturalistic. Raphael comments that there is no firm evidence for this,[5][53] and Meyers suggests that she is based on Harry Phillips, a young man whom Maugham had taken to Paris as, nominally, his secretary for a prolonged stay in 1905. The protagonist of the story, Salvatore who is a usual fisherman's son, is intensely in love with a beautiful girl who lives on the Grande Marina. In November 1916 Maugham was asked by the intelligence service to go to the South Seas. View interactive tab. William ('W.') Somerset Maugham. 191, 205 and 210, Mander and Mitchenson, pp. [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. William Somerset Maugham, bedst kendt som bare W. Somerset Maugham, (fdt 25. januar 1874 i Paris, dd 16. december 1965 i Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat nr Nice) var en betydningsfuld engelsk forfatter.. (1874-1965), Novelist, playwright and spy. By Jeffrey Meyers. Leonard Nimoy has said that when he was creating a voice for Star Trek's Mr. Spock, he listened to hours of recordings of the English writer reading his works. Incidentally, W. Somerset Maugham inspired some mimesis of his own. Maka. 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. [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. In Somerset Maugham's novel "The Moon and Sixpence," there is a scene in which Dirk Stroeve, a painter, visits an art dealer to inquire after the work of . [50], By 1914 Maugham was famous, with thirteen plays and eight novels completed. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. - Nizza, 1965. december 16.) RAIN VIII. [5][n 6], After the birth of his daughter, Maugham moved to Switzerland. 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. He was acquitted, but was nonetheless registered as an "undesirable alien". William Somerset Maugham came from a family of lawyers. As a result, he developed a talent for applying a wounding remark to those who displeased him. [191] Virginia Woolf was friendly though a little patronising;[192] Lytton Strachey disparaged one of his books as "Class II, Division I". Maugham was a well-known English playwright, novelist and short story writer. There are but two important critics in my own country who have troubled to take me seriously and when clever young men write essays about contemporary fiction they never think of considering me. He did not wish to follow his brothers to Cambridge University,[23] and his stammer precluded a career in the church or the law even if either had attracted him. ]' t.r. 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, by his own account, not a particularly imaginative or inventive person, but he studied people and places and used them, sometimes with minimal alteration or disguise, in his stories. [181] Calder cites BBC Television's series of twenty-six stories shown in 1969 and 1970, adapted by dramatists including Roy Clarke, Simon Gray, Hugh Leonard, Simon Raven and Hugh Whitemore,[182] "presented with scrupulous fidelity to [their] tone, attitude, and thematic intention". It drew its details from his obstetric duties in South London slums. For the next year and a half he studied literature, philosophy and German. [164], Among the short stories set in England, one of the best-known is "The Alien Corn" (1931), where a young man rediscovers his Jewish heritage and rejects his family's efforts to distance themselves from Judaism. Together they made extended visits to Asia, the South Seas and other destinations; Maugham gathered material for his fiction wherever they went. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Somerset Maugham . Before Fame. THE LUNCHEON - Famous Short Story by William Somerset Maugham Ur Learning Bucket 9.1K subscribers Subscribe 898 55K views 1 year ago UNITED STATES The Luncheon' is a famous short english story of. Maugham wrote that he followed no master, and acknowledged none, but he named Guy de Maupassant as an early influence. Maugham is a British writer of great repute and has had one of the most successful literary careers in the twentieth century. [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. Two days later his ashes were interred in the grounds of The King's School, Canterbury, beside the wall of the Maugham Library, which he had endowed in 1961. Childhood and education. His grandfather, Robert Maugham (17881862), was a prominent solicitor and co-founder of the Law Society of England and Wales. 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