It is high time for them then to retire. angol regnyr, elbeszl s drmar; munkit a vilgos stlus, a vltozatos helysznek s az emberi termszet alapos ismerete jellemzi. More like this. [187] Nonetheless, Maugham is recognised as an influence on Coward, Lawrence, Kingsley Amis, Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, V. S. Naipaul and George Orwell. William Somerset Maugham came from a family of lawyers. Synonyms for Somerset Maugham in Free Thesaurus. [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. His grandfather, Robert Maugham (17881862), was a prominent solicitor and co-founder of the Law Society of England and Wales. Entdecke Where to Watch Birds in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire by Ken Hall (Eng in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! [132] Morgan comments: In his 1926 short story "The Creative Impulse" Maugham made fun of self-conscious stylists whose books appealed only to a literary clique: "It was indeed a scandal that so distinguished an author, with an imagination so delicate and a style so exquisite, should remain neglected of the vulgar". His domestic staff there comprised thirteen servants. Of Human Bondage is certainly one; Cakes and Ale probably; The Moon and Sixpence possibly. Under 1. verdenskrig var han hemmelig agent i Rusland; hans spionroman Ashenden: Or the British Agent (1928; "Ashenden: Den hemmelige agent") bygger p denne erfaring. [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. His fellow author Cyril Connolly wrote, "there will remain a story-teller's world from Singapore to the Marquesas that is exclusively and forever Maugham". [5] He attempted to disinherit his daughter and to make Searle his adopted son, but the courts prevented it.[124]. [158] The tribute continued, "Best sellers that appeal to the mass reader are seldom good literature, but there are exceptions. I do not resent it. [81] Maugham, as always, observed closely and collected material for his stories wherever they went. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English playwright and author wrote Of Human Bondage (1915); He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of reality. Between 1908 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Maugham wrote a further eight plays,[44] but his stage successes did not completely distract him from writing novels. [25] The local physician in Whitstable suggested the medical profession, and Maugham's uncle agreed. This website uses cookies. He qualified as a doctor in 1897, but pursued his passion for writing following the publication of his . [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. Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and the orphaned boy was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. The first volume, Orientations, came out in 1898 and his last, Creatures of Circumstance, in 1947, with seven others between the two. [117], Maugham made many subsequent visits to London, including one for his daughter's second marriage in July 1948, where, in Hastings's words, "with professional ease he acted the part of proud father, managed to be civil to Syrie, and made a creditable speech at the reception at Claridge's afterwards". [62] His covert job, which was in violation of Switzerland's neutrality laws,[n 7] was to coordinate the work of British agents in enemy territory and dispatch their information to London. He was not only a novelist, but also a one of the most successful dramatist and short-story writers. Biography of William Somerset Maugham (excerpt) William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and theatre writer. After one has got over the glamour of the stage and the excitement, I do not myself think the theatre has much to offer the writer compared with the other mediums in which he has complete independence and need consider no one. 75 Copy quote. [103], Maugham spent most of the war years in the US, based for much of the time at a comfortable house on the estate of his American publisher, Nelson Doubleday. In a 2004 biography of Maugham, Jeffrey Meyers comments, "His stammer, a psychological and physical handicap, and his gradual awareness of his homosexuality made him furtive and secretive". He became a medical student in London and . If you like W. Somerset Maugham, you might also like: E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and John Fowles. [65] He was reunited with Haxton, who joined him as secretary-companion. Crowley took offence and wrote a critique of the novel in Vanity Fair, charging Maugham with "varied, shameless and extensive" plagiarism. ivot [ editovat | editovat zdroj] Narodil se v Pai, kde jeho otec pracoval jako prvnk na britsk ambasd. [65] Samoa was regarded as crucial to Britain's strategic interests, and Maugham's task was to gather information about the island's powerful radio transmitter and the threat from German military and naval forces in the region. [73] He saw little of Haxton, who undertook war work in Washington DC. [87] His longest-running play of the decade, and of his whole career, was Our Betters. [89] The majority of his original plays were comedies, but of his serious dramas East of Suez (1922), The Letter (1927) and The Sacred Flame (1929) ran for more than 200 performances. [41] By the next year, while the run of Lady Frederick continued, Maugham had three other plays running simultaneously in London. He wrote near the opening of the novel: "it is impossible always to give the exact unexpurgated words of Liza and the other personages of the story; the reader is therefore entreated with his thoughts to piece out the necessary imperfections of the dialogue". 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". 1965. 1 Childhood and education; 2 Career. [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". [22], After Maugham's return to Britain in 1892, he and his uncle had to decide on his future. [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". 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. [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. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it . After a year at Heidelberg, he entered St. Thomas medical school, London, and qualified as a doctor in 1897. [5], Shortly before the birth of the Maughams' fourth son the government of France proposed a new law under which all boys born on French soil to foreign parents would automatically be French citizens and liable to conscription for military service. Maugham was miserable, both at the vicarage and at school, where he was bullied because of his small size and his stammer. Maugham was orphaned at the age of 10; he was brought up by an uncle and educated at Kings School, Canterbury. Born into a professional, bourgeois family, the youngest of four brothers, he. And in one way or another however indirectly all I've written during the last twenty years has something to do with him".[109]. "[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. [5][n 6], After the birth of his daughter, Maugham moved to Switzerland. About. IndigoMistBooks. Part 2 also available on my channel as well as all parts from his other films Trio and Encore. By Jeffrey Meyers. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced mawm), was an English novelist, playwright and a short story writer. [20] A modest legacy from his father enabled him to go to Heidelberg University to study. He told Nol Coward in 1933: Maugham's thirty-second and last play was Sheppey (1933). [5] Nevertheless he had a wish to marry, which he later greatly regretted. He became a father and husband, marrying Syrie Wellcome in 1917, three years into an affair that produced their daughter, Liza. Maugham usually published his works under the name of W. Somerset Maugham. William Somerset Maugham [mm] ( 25. tammikuuta 1874 Pariisi, Ranska - 16. joulukuuta 1965 Nizza, Ranska) oli englantilainen nytelmkirjailija, kirjailija ja novellisti, 1930-luvun tunnetuimpia lnsimaisia kirjailijoita ja tiettvsti mys suurituloisimpia. 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. 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. [184], Maugham was appointed Companion of Honour in 1954, on the recommendation of the British prime minister, Winston Churchill,[119] and six years later along with Churchill he was one of the first five writers to be made a Companion of Literature. "Mr Somerset Maugham's Library for School", Lyttelton and Hart-Davis (1984), pp. [157], For many readers and critics, the best of Maugham is in his short stories. Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and commercially successful authors of the twentieth century. 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. She began posting to Twitch in June 2019. His work was popular for his simple style of writing, as well as his sharp and accurate understanding and judgment of human nature. After another long trip to the Far East, he agreed with Syrie that they would live separately, she in London and he at Cap Ferrat in the south of France. Most viewed. [83], In Maugham's absence his wife found an occupation, becoming a sought-after interior designer. [28], The book received mixed reviews. After the war he resumed his interrupted travels and, in 1928, bought a villa on Cape Ferrat in the south of France, which became his permanent home. Used; Condition Used - Good ISBN 13 9780140185232 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. Syrie Wellcome. Maugham wrote that he followed no master, and acknowledged none, but he named Guy de Maupassant as an early influence. He achieved fame initially as a dramatist with plays such as Lady Frederick (1912) and The Circle (1921). 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. W. Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965) first claimed fame as a playwright and novelist, but he became best known in the 1920's and 1930's the world over as an international traveler and short-story writer. , both at the age of 10 ; he was brought up by an uncle and at... 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