W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten.[1] He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson; Maugham instead trained as a doctor, although he never practised professionally, as his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, was published the same year he qualified.[2]
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| Books↙ | 16 |
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| Novels↙ | 20 |
| Articles↙ | 189 |
| Collections↙ | 16 |
| Plays↙ | 25 |
| Books edited↙ | 19 |
| Unpublished plays↙ | 11 |
| Collected editions↙ | 22 |
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A year after his first novel was published Maugham began contributing to magazines and periodicals; initially these were short stories, but he also wrote opinion pieces, non-fictional and autobiographical work, and letters. Much of his non-fictional writing was published in book form, and covered a range of topics, including travel, current affairs, autobiography and belles lettres.[3][4] Maugham was also editor on a number of works, which often included adding a preface or introductory chapter to the work of other writers. In 1903 his first play was performed, A Man of Honour at the Imperial Theatre, London. It was the first of many of his works that were produced for the stage, and with the later development of cinema, his novels and stories were also adapted for the big screen.[5][6]
By the time of his death in 1965 Maugham was one of the most commercially successful and gifted writers of the twentieth century, according to Bryan Connon, his biographer;[1] The Times obituarist called Maugham "the most assured English writer of his time", and wrote that "no writer of his generation ... graced the world of English letters with more complete or more polished assurance".[3]
Novels and story collections
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First edition cover of Liza of Lambeth, 1897
Frontispiece for Of Human Bondage, 1915
Frontispiece for The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921
| Title[7][8][9] | Year of first publication |
First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liza of Lambeth | 1897 | T. Fisher Unwin | Novel | [10] |
| The Making of a Saint | 1898 | T. Fisher Unwin | Novel | [11] |
| Orientations | 1899 | T. Fisher Unwin | Short story collection | [12] |
| The Hero | 1901 | Hutchinson | Novel | [13] |
| Mrs Craddock | 1902 | Heinemann | Novel | [14] |
| The Merry-Go-Round | 1904 | Heinemann | Novel | [15] |
| The Bishop's Apron | 1906 | Chapman & Hall | Novel | [16] |
| The Explorer | 1908 | Heinemann | Novel | [17] |
| The Magician | 1908 | Heinemann | Novel | [18] |
| Of Human Bondage | 1915 | George H. Doran Company, New York | Novel | [19] |
| The Moon and Sixpence | 1919 | Heinemann | Novel | [20] |
| The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands | 1921 | George H. Doran Company, New York | Short story collection | [21] |
| The Painted Veil | 1925 | Heinemann | Novel | [22] |
| The Casuarina Tree: Six Stories | 1926 | Heinemann | Short story collection; comprises six stories | [23] |
| Ashenden: Or the British Agent | 1928 | Heinemann | Short story collection | [24] |
| Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard | 1930 | Heinemann | Novel | [25] |
| Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular | 1931 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | Short story collection | [26] |
| The Book Bag | 1932 | Ray Long & Richard R Smith Inc, New York | Short story collection; comprises 20 stories | [27] |
| The Narrow Corner | 1932 | Heinemann | Novel | [28] |
| Ah King | 1933 | Heinemann | Short story collection | [29] |
| The Judgement Seat | 1934 | Centaur Press | Short story collection | [30] |
| Cosmopolitans | 1936 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | Short story collection | [31] |
| Theatre | 1937 | Heinemann | Novel | [32] |
| Christmas Holiday | 1939 | Heinemann | Novel | [33] |
| Princess September and the Nightingale | 1939 | Oxford University Press, Oxford | Short story collection | [34] |
| The Mixture as Before | 1940 | Heinemann | Short story collection | [35] |
| Up at the Villa | 1941 | Heinemann | Novel | [36] |
| The Hour Before the Dawn | 1942 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | Novel | [37] |
| The Unconquered | 1944 | House of Books Ltd, New York | Short story collection | [38] |
| The Razor's Edge | 1944 | Heinemann | Novel | [39] |
| Then and Now | 1946 | Heinemann | Novel | [40] |
| Creatures of Circumstance | 1947 | Heinemann | Short story collection | [41] |
| Catalina | 1948 | Heinemann | Novel | [42] |
| Quartet | 1948 | Heinemann | Short story collection | [43] |
| Trio | 1950 | Heinemann | Short story collection by Maugham, screen adaptation by Maugham, R.C. Sherriff and Noel Langley | [44] |
| Encore | 1951 | Heinemann | Short story collection by Maugham, screen adaptation by Maugham, T.E.B Clarke, Arthur Macrae and Eric Ambler | [45] |
Publications in periodicals
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Maugham in 1934
"An Irish Gentleman" in The Strand Magazine, September 1904
| Title[46] | Date of publication |
Periodical |
|---|---|---|
| "Don Sebastian" | October 1898 | Cosmopolis: A Literary Review |
| "Cupid and the Vicar of Swale" | 7 February 1900 | Punch |
| "Lady Habart" | 9 May 1900 | Punch |
| "Schiffbrüchig" | 1903 | The Venture |
| "Pro Patria" | February 1903 | The Pall Mall Magazine |
| "A Man of Honour" | March 1903 | The Fortnightly Review |
| "A Point of Law" | October 1903 | The Strand Magazine |
| "An Irish Gentleman" | September 1904 | The Strand Magazine |
| "A Rehearsal" | 6 December 1905 | The Sketch |
| "Flirtation" | 3 February 1906 | Daily Mail |
| "The Fortunate Painter and the Honest Jew" | 7 March 1906 | Bystander |
| "A Marriage of Convenience" | 23 June 1908 | The Illustrated London News |
| "The Making of a Millionaire" | July 1906 | The Lady's Realm |
| "Good Manners" | May 1907 | Windsor Magazine |
| "Cousin Amy" | March 1908 | The Pall Mall Magazine |
| "The Happy Couple" | May 1908 | Cassell's Magazine |
| "A Traveller in Romance" | 1909 | Printer's Pie Annual |
| "The Mother" | April 1909 | Story-Teller |
| "Pygmalion at Home and Abroad" | May 1914 | The English Review |
| "Gerald Festus Kelly: Student of Character" | January 1915 | The Studio |
| "Mackintosh" | November 1920 | Cosmopolitan |
| "Miss Thompson" | April 1921 | The Smart Set |
| "Red" | April 1921 | Asia |
| "On Writing for the Films" | May 1921 | North American Review |
| "The Pool" | September 1921 | Cosmopolitan |
| "Honolulu" | October 1921 | Everybody's Magazine |
| "My South Sea Island" | 31 January 1922 | Daily Mail |
| "Foreign Devils" | February 1922 | Asia |
| "Fear" | March 1922 | The Century Magazine |
| "A City Built on a Rock" | March 1922 | Youth |
| "Philosopher" | 18 April 1922 | McClure's Magazine |
| "Two Studies – Mr Pete; The Vice-Consul" | 8 July 1922 | Saturday Review |
| "Taipan" | October 1922 | Pearson's Magazine |
| "The Princess and the Nightingale" | December 1922 | Pearson's Magazine and Good Housekeeping |
| "Before the Party" | December 1922 | Nash's Magazine |
| "Bewitched"[a] | February 1923 | International Magazine |
| "Jane" | April 1923 | International Magazine |
| "The Imposters" | November 1923 | Cosmopolitan |
| "Mayhew" | December 1923 | Cosmopolitan |
| "German Harry" | January 1924 | Cosmopolitan |
| "The Force of Circumstance" | February 1924 | International Magazine |
| "In a Strange Land" | February 1924 | Cosmopolitan |
| "The Luncheon" | March 1924 | Nash's Magazine |
| "The Round Dozen" | March 1924 | Good Housekeeping |
| "The Woman Who Wouldn't Take a Hint" | April 1924 | Cosmopolitan |
| "The Letter" | April 1924 | International Magazine |
| "A Dream" | May 1924 | Cosmopolitan |
| "The Outstation" | June 1924 | International Magazine |
| "The Happy Man" | June 1924 | Cosmopolitan |
| "Salvatore the Fisherman" | July 1924 | Cosmopolitan |
| "Home From the Sea" | September 1924 | Cosmopolitan |
| "Mr Know-All" | September 1924 | Good Housekeeping |
| "The Ant and the Grasshopper" | October 1924 | Cosmopolitan |
| "Novelist or Bond Salesman" | February 1925 | The Bookman |
| "The Widow's Might" | February 1925 | Cosmopolitan |
| "The Man Who Wouldn't Hurt a Fly" | April 1925 | International Magazine |
| "The Code of a Gentleman" | June 1925 | International Magazine |
| "The Yellow Streak" | August 1925 | International Magazine |
| "The Most Selfish Woman I Knew" | September 1925 | International Magazine |
| "The Man with a Scar" | October 1925 | International Magazine |
| "The Great Man" | January 1926 | International Magazine |
| "The End of the Flight" | January 1926 | Harper's Bazaar |
| "Another Man without a Country" | January 1926 | International Magazine |
| "An Honest Woman" | February 1926 | International Magazine |
| "Consul" | April 1926 | The Golden Book Magazine |
| "The Creative Impulse" | August 1926 | Harper's Bazaar |
| "The Closed Shop" | September 1927 | Harper's Bazaar |
| "Footprints in the Jungle" | September 1927 | International Magazine |
| "Pearls" | February 1927 | International Magazine |
| "Advice to a Young Author" | 2 March 1927 | The New York Times |
| "The Traitor" | September 1927 | International Magazine |
| "One of Those Women" | October 1927 | International Magazine |
| "His Excellency" | November 1927 | International Magazine |
| "The Hairless Mexican" | December 1927 | International Magazine |
| "Mr Harrington's Washing" | January 1928 | International Magazine |
| "The British Agent" | February 1928 | International Magazine |
| "The Four Dutchmen" | December 1928 | International Magazine |
| "In Hiding" | January 1929 | International Magazine |
| "A Derelict" | February 1929 | International Magazine |
| "The Extraordinary Sex" | March 1929 | International Magazine |
| "Straight Flush" | June 1929 | International Magazine |
| "The Man Who Made His Mark" | June 1929 | International Magazine |
| "Through the Jungle" | July and August 1929 | Britannia and Eve |
| "Mirage" | October 1929 | International Magazine |
| "A Marriage of Convenience" | December 1929 | The Strand Magazine |
| "On the Road to Mandalay" | December 1929 | International Magazine |
| "Cakes and Ale" | March to July 1930 | Harper's Bazaar |
| "Maltreat the Dead in Fiction" | November 1930 | The Literary Digest |
| "The Human Element" | December 1930 | International Magazine |
| "Virtue" | February 1931 | International Magazine |
| "The Vessel of Wrath" | April 1931 | International Magazine |
| "Maugham Discusses Drama" | May 1931 | The Living Age |
| "Arnold Bennett" | June 1931 | Life and Letters |
| "The Right Thing is the Kind Thing" | July 1931 | International Magazine |
| "The Alien Corn" | August 1931 | International Magazine |
| "The Door of Opportunity" | October 1931 | International Magazine |
| "The Temptation of Neil MacAdam" | February 1932 | International Magazine |
| "The Narrow Corner" | October – December 1932 | International Magazine |
| "For Services Rendered" | 13 November – 18 December 1932 | Sunday Express |
| "The Three Fat Women of Antibes" | October 1933 | International Magazine |
| "The Buried Talent" | February 1934 | International Magazine |
| "The Best Ever" | May 1934 | International Magazine and Nash's Magazine |
| "How I Write Short Stories" | 28 July 1934 | Saturday Review |
| "The Short Story" | October 1934 | Nash's Magazine |
| "A Casual Affair" | November 1934 | Nash's Magazine |
| "Appearance and Reality" | November 1934 | International Magazine |
| "The Voice of the Turtle" | January 1935 | Nash's Magazine |
| "Gigolo and Gigolette" | March 1935 | Nash's Magazine |
| "The Lotus Eater" | October 1935 | Nash's Magazine |
| "An Official Position" | July 1937 | International Magazine |
| "The Lion's Skin" | November 1937 | International Magazine |
| "The Sanatorium" | December 1938 | International Magazine |
| "The Professional Writer" | 29 January 1939 | Saturday Review |
| "Doctor and Patient" | February 1939 | International Magazine |
| "You and Some More Books" | 11 March 1939 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "The Facts of Life" | April 1939 | International Magazine |
| "A Man with a Conscience" | June 1939 | International Magazine |
| "Christmas Holiday" | August – November 1939 | Redbook |
| "Proof Reading as an Avocation" | 14 October 1939 | Publishers Weekly |
| "Classic Books of America" | 6 January 1940 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "The Villa on the Hill" | February – April 1940 | Redbook |
| "Britain Views the French Navy" | July 1940 | The Living Age |
| "The Refugee Ship" | September 1940 | Redbook |
| "The Insider Story of the Collapse of France" | October 1940 | Redbook |
| "The Lion at Bay" | November 1940 | Redbook |
| "Reading under Bombing" | November 1940 | The Living Age |
| "Give me a Murder" | 28 December 1940 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "What Tomorrow Holds" | January 1941 | Redbook |
| "They are Strange People" | February 1941 | Redbook |
| "Novelist's Flight from France" | 22 March 1941 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "Little Things of no Consequence" | 29 March 1941 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "We Have Been Betrayed" | 5 April 1941 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "Escape to America" | 12 April 1941 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "Theatre" | May 1941 | Redbook |
| "Mr Tomkin's Sitter" | 7 June 1941 | The New Yorker |
| "The Culture that is to Come" | August 1941 | Redbook |
| "An Exciting Prospect" | October 1941 | Reader's Digest |
| "Paintings I Have Liked" | 1 December 1941 | Life |
| "The Hour Before Dawn" | December 1941 – April 1942 | Redbook |
| "Why Do You Dislike Us?" | 11 April 1942 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "To Know About England and the English" | 13 June 1942 | Publishers Weekly |
| "Morale Made in America" | July 1942 | Redbook |
| "The Happy Couple" | February 1943 | Redbook |
| "Virtue" | April 1943 | Redbook |
| "The Unconquered" | 10 April 1943 | Collier's |
| "The Captain and Miss Reid" | June 1943 | International Magazine |
| "Reading and Writing and You" | August 1943 | Redbook |
| "We Have a Common Heritage" | August 1943 | Redbook |
| "The Terrorist" | October 1943 | Redbook |
| "Write about What You Know" | November 1943 | Good Housekeeping |
| "The Razor's Edge" | December 1943 – May 1944 | Redbook |
| "How I Like to Play Bridge" | December 1944 | Good Housekeeping |
| "In Defence of Who-Done-Its" | 25 May 1945 | Scholastic |
| "What Reading Can Do For You" | August 1945 | Life Story |
| "The Colonel's Lady" | March 1946 | Good Housekeeping |
| "A Woman of Fifty" | May 1946 | Good Housekeeping |
| "Function of the Writer" | 25 May 1946 | Writer |
| "Then and Now" | May – June 1946 | International Magazine |
| "Behind the Story" | June 1946 | Wings |
| "Episode" | March 1947 | Good Housekeeping |
| "The Point of Honour" | March 1947 | Good Housekeeping |
| "What Should a Novel Do?" | 3 March 1947 | Scholastic |
| "The Romantic Young Lady" | 21 June 1947 | Scholastic |
| "Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary" | November 1947 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Henry Fielding and Tom Jones" | December 1947 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Honoré de Balzac and Old Man Goriot" | January 1948 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights" | February 1948 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov" | March 1948 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Stendhal and the Red and the Black" | April 1948 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice" | May 1948 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Herman Melville and Moby Dick" | June 1948 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Charles Dickens and David Copperfield" | July 1948 | The Atlantic Monthly |
| "Catalina" | March – December 1948 | The Windmill |
| "Spanish Journey" | 11 August 1948 | Continental Daily Mail |
| "Ten Best Sellers" | September 1948 | Good Housekeeping |
| "A Writer's Notebook" | June – August 1949 | International Magazine |
| "Augustus" | Winter 1949/50 | Cornhill Magazine |
| "Zurbaran" | Summer 1950 | Cornhill Magazine |
| "After Reading Burke" | Winter 1950/51 | Cornhill Magazine |
| "Somerset Maugham Tells a Story of the Lady from Poona" | 3 May 1951 | News Chronicle |
| "The Bidding Started Slowly" | June 1952 | The Connoisseur |
| Letter to the editor | 8 October 1952 | John O'London's Weekly |
| "Looking Back on Eighty Years" | 28 January 1954 | The Listener |
| "Somerset Maugham and the Greatest Novels" | June – October 1954 | The Sunday Times |
| "The Perfect Gentleman" | November 1955 | Theatre Arts Magazine |
| "On Having My Portrait Painted" | January 1959 | Horizon |
| "Credo of a Story Teller" | 21 March 1959 | The Saturday Evening Post |
| "On the Approach of Middle Age" | 15 November 1960 | Vogue |
| "Looking Back" | June – August 1962 | Show |
Collected editions
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| Title[8][48] | Year of first publication |
First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Notes | Ref. |
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| East and West | 1934 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | [49] | |
| Altogether | 1934 | Heinemann | [50] | |
| Favourite Short Stories | 1937 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | [51] | |
| The Round Dozen | 1939 | The Reprint Society | [52] | |
| The Somerset Maugham Sampler | 1943 | Garden City Publishing, Garden City, NY | [53] | |
| Here and There | 1948 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | [54] | |
| East of Suez | 1948 | Avon Publishing, New York | [54] | |
| The Maugham Reader | 1950 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | [55] | |
| The Complete Short Stories | 1951 | Heinemann | Three volumes | [56] |
| The Collected Plays | 1952 | Heinemann | Three volumes | [57] |
| The World Over | 1952 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | [58] | |
| The Selected Novels of W. Somerset Maugham | 1953 | Heinemann | Three volumes | [59] |
| The Partial View | 1954 | Heinemann | [60] | |
| The Travel Books | 1955 | Heinemann | [61] | |
| Husbands and Wives | 1963 | Pyramid Publications, New York | [62] | |
| The Sinners | 1964 | Pyramid Publications, New York | [63] | |
| Selected Prefaces and Introductions | 1964 | Heinemann | [64] | |
| A Maugham Twelve | 1966 | Heinemann | [65] | |
| Seventeen Lost Stories | 1969 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | [66] | |
| Maugham's Malaysian Stories | 1969 | Heinemann, Singapore | edited and with an introduction by Anthony Burgess. | [67] |
| A Traveller in Romance | 1984 | Anthony Blond | Uncollected writings, 1901–64 | [68] |
Editor
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Cover and frontispiece for The Venture (1903)
| Title[8] | Year of first publication |
Author | First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Notes | Ref. |
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| The Venture Annual of Art and Literature | 1903 | Baillie, London | Co-edited with Laurence Housman | [69] | |
| The Venture Annual of Art and Literature, 1905 | 1905 | Simpkin Marshall, London | Co-edited with Laurence Housman | [69] | |
| The Truth at Last | 1924 | Charles Hawtrey | Little, New York | [70] | |
| Traveller's Library | 1933 | Doubleday, Doran New York | Reissued the same year as Fifty Modern English Writers | [71] | |
| Wisdom of Life: An Anthology of Noble Thoughts | 1938 | Watts, London | With Joseph Frederick Green | [72] | |
| The House with the Green Shutters | 1938 | George Douglas | Oxford University Press, Oxford | With introduction | [73] |
| Tellers of Tales: One Hundred Short Stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany | 1939 | Doubleday, Doran, New York | [74] | ||
| Great Modern Reading: W. Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Modern English and American Literature | 1943 | Doubleday, New York | [75] | ||
| David Copperfield | 1948 | Charles Dickens | Winston, New York | [76] | |
| The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | 1948 | Henry Fielding | Winston, New York | [77] | |
| Pride and Prejudice | 1949 | Jane Austen | Winston, New York | [78] | |
| Old Man Goriot | 1949 | Honoré de Balzac | Winston, New York | [79] | |
| Wuthering Heights | 1949 | Emily Brontë | Winston, New York | [80] | |
| The Brothers Karamazov | 1949 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Winston, New York | [81] | |
| Madame Bovary | 1949 | Gustave Flaubert | Winston, New York | [82] | |
| Moby-Dick | 1949 | Herman Melville | Winston, New York | [83] | |
| The Red and the Black | 1949 | Stendhal | Winston, New York | [84] | |
| War and Peace | 1949 | Leo Tolstoy | Winston, New York | [85] | |
| A Choice of Kipling's Prose | 1952 | Rudyard Kipling | Macmillan, New York | [86] |
Plays
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Montage of photographs from the London production of Smith, starring Marie Lohr (1909)
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Billie Burke in the Broadway production of The Land of Promise (1913)
Estelle Winwood in the Broadway production of Too Many Husbands, US title of Home and Beauty (1919)
Mrs. Leslie Carter, Ernest Lawford and John Drew in the Broadway production of The Circle (1921)
| Title[87] | Date of first performance |
Location of first performance |
Publisher | Date of publication |
Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Man of Honour | 23 February 1903 | Imperial Theatre, London | Chapman & Hall, London | 1903 | A play in four acts | [88] |
| Lady Frederick | 26 October 1907 | Royal Court Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1912 | A comedy in three acts; written in 1903 | [89] |
| Jack Straw | 26 March 1908 | Vaudeville Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1912 | A farce in three acts; written in 1907 | [90] |
| Mrs Dot | 26 April 1908 | Comedy Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1912 | A farce in three acts; written in 1904 and originally titled Worthey's Estate | [90] |
| Penelope | 9 January 1909 | Comedy Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1912 | A comedy in three acts; written in 1908 and originally titled Man and Wife | [91] |
| The Explorer | 13 June 1908 | Lyric Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1912 | A melodrama in four acts; written in 1899 | [92] |
| The Tenth Man | 24 February 1910 | Globe Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1913 | A tragi-comedy in three acts; written in 1909 | [93] |
| Landed Gentry | 15 October 1910 | Duke of York's Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1913 | A comedy in four acts; written in 1910 | [93] |
| Smith | 30 September 1909 | Comedy Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1913 | A comedy in four acts; written in 1909 | [94] |
| The Land of Promise | 25 December 1913 | Lyceum Theatre, New York | Bickers & Son, London | 1913 | A comedy in four acts | [95] |
| The Unknown | 9 August 1920 | Aldwych Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1920 | A play in three acts; written in 1920 | [96] |
| The Circle | 3 March 1921 | Haymarket Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1921 | A comedy in three acts; written in 1919 | [97] |
| Caesar's Wife | 27 March 1919 | Royalty Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1922 | A comedy in three acts; written in 1918 | [98] |
| East of Suez | 2 September 1922 | Her Majesty's Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1922 | A play in seven scenes; written in 1922 | [99] |
| Our Betters | 1917 | Hudson Theatre, New York | Heinemann, London | 1923 | A comedy in three acts; written in 1915 | [100] |
| Home and Beauty | 30 August 1919 | Globe Theatre, Atlantic City | Heinemann, London | 1923 | A farce in three acts; written in 1917 | [101] |
| The Unattainable | 8 February 1916 | New Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1923 | A farce in three acts; written in 1915 | [102] |
| Loaves and Fishes | 24 February 1911 | Duke of York's Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1924 | A comedy in four acts; written in 1902 | [103] |
| The Constant Wife | 1 November 1926 | Ohio Theatre | George H. Doran Company, New York | 1927 | A comedy in three acts | [104] |
| The Letter | 24 February 1927 | Playhouse Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1927 | A play in three acts | [105] |
| The Sacred Flame | November 1928 | New York | Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York | 1928 | A play in three acts | [106] |
| The Bread-Winner | 30 September 1930 | Vaudeville Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1930 | A comedy in one act; written in 1930 | [107] |
| For Services Rendered | 1 November 1932 | Globe Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1932 | A play in three acts; written in 1932 | [108] |
| Sheppey | 14 September 1933 | Wyndham's Theatre | Heinemann, London | 1933 | A play in three acts; written in 1932 | [109] |
| The Noble Spaniard | 20 March 1909 | Royalty Theatre | Evans Brothers, London | 1953 | A comedy in three acts; written in 1908 | [110] |
| Title[8][87][111] | Date of first performance |
Location of first performance |
Notes |
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| Mademoiselle Zampa | 1904 | Avenue Theatre | Ran for 20 performances only |
| A Trip to Brighton | 1911 | London | Adaptation of a play by Abel Tarride |
| Mrs. Beamish | Not performed | A comedy in three acts; written in 1917 | |
| Under the Circumstances | Not performed | A comedy in three acts | |
| The Keys to Heaven | Not performed | A comedy in three acts; written in 1917 | |
| Love in a Cottage | 27 January 1918 | Globe Theatre | A comedy in three acts; written in 1917 |
| Not To-Night, Josephine! | Not performed | A farce; written in 1919 | |
| The Camel's Back | 29 October 1923 | Worcester Theatre, Worcester, MA | A play in three acts; written in 1924 |
| The Road Uphill | Not performed | A play in three acts; written in 1924 | |
| The Force of Nature | Not performed | A play in three acts; written in 1928 | |
| The Mask and the Face | May 1933 | Colonial Theatre | Adaptation of a play by Luigi Chiarelli |
Non-fiction
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| Title[112] | Year of first publication |
First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Topic | Ref. |
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| The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia | 1905 | Heinemann | Travel | [113] |
| On a Chinese Screen | 1922 | Heinemann | Travel | [114] |
| The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey From Rangoon to Haiphong | 1930 | Heinemann | Travel | [115] |
| Don Fernando | 1935 | Heinemann | Travel | [116] |
| My South Sea Island | 1936 | Heinemann | Travel | [117] |
| The Summing Up | 1938 | Heinemann | Autobiography | [118] |
| France at War | 1940 | Heinemann | Current affairs | [119] |
| Books and You | 1940 | Heinemann | Essays | [120] |
| Strictly Personal | 1941 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY | Autobiography | [121] |
| Of Human Bondage, With a Digression on the Art of Fiction | 1946 | US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC | Address | [122] |
| Great Novelists and Their Novels[b] | 1948 | Winston, New York | Essays | [124] |
| A Writer's Notebook | 1949 | Heinemann | Belles lettres | [125] |
| The Writer's Point of View | 1951 | Cambridge University Press | Essays | [126] |
| The Vagrant Mood | 1952 | Heinemann | Essays | [127] |
| Points of View | 1958 | Heinemann | Essays | [128] |
Notes and references
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- ^ Later published as "P & O".[47]
- ^ The UK edition was published in 1954 under the title Ten Novels and Their Authors.[123]
References
- ^ a b Connon 2004.
- ^ Raphael 1976, pp. 16–20.
- ^ a b "Mr. Somerset Maugham". The Times. No. 56507. London. 17 December 1965. p. 17.
- ^ Simpkins 1985, p. 162.
- ^ Sanders 1982, p. 22.
- ^ Ashley 2008, pp. 62–63.
- ^ Occhiogrosso 1989, pp. 214–16.
- ^ a b c d "W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 1874–1965". Contemporary Authors. Gale. Retrieved 7 July 2014. (subscription required)
- ^ Thomas 1990, pp. 40–41.
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