William Somerset Maugham

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....

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....

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

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

Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self....

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....

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river....

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

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....

Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy....