William Somerset Maugham

Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England.....

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters....

Set in the time of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, Catalina is a novel both richly historical and affectingly human....

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....

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....

Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel....

On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past....

Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet....

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....