W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) · CatalogW. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham; W Somerset Maugham; WSomersetMaugham; William Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) · CatalogEnglish novelist, playwright and short-story writer, author of Of Human Bondage.
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W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965 · English novelist, playwright and short-story writer, author of Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was born in the British Embassy in Paris, orphaned young and raised by an uncle in Kent. He trained as a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital in London before turning to writing, served as a British intelligence agent in the First World War, and became one of the most popular and best-paid authors of his time, known for Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Cakes and Ale (1930), The Razor's Edge (1944) and many plays and short stories.
The Razor's Edge is narrated by Maugham himself, appearing as a character, who says that he has invented nothing and has simply set down what he knows of a man he met at long intervals over some twenty years. That man is Larry Darrell, a young American from Chicago who served as a pilot in the First World War and returned changed after a comrade died saving his life.
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