The secret lives of Somerset Maugham : a biography / Selina Hastings.
2010
PR6025.A86 Z6123 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
The secret lives of Somerset Maugham : a biography / Selina Hastings.
Author
Hastings, Selina.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
ISBN
9781400061419 (acid-free paper)
1400061415 (acid-free paper)
1400061415 (acid-free paper)
Imprint
New York : Random House, c2010.
Language
English
Description
626 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PR6025.A86 Z6123 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.912 B
Summary
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham's own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham's personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor's Edge and Of Human Bondage.
Note
"This work was originally published in the United Kingdom by John Murray Publishers, London, in 2009, in a slightly different form"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
A Blackstable boyhood
At St. Thomas's Hospital
A writer by instinct
Le chat blanc
England's dramatist
Syrie
Code name "Somerville"
Behind The painted veil
A world of veranda and prahu
Separation
The Villa Mauresque
Master Hacky
The teller of tales
An exercise in propaganda
The Bronzino boy
Betrayal.
At St. Thomas's Hospital
A writer by instinct
Le chat blanc
England's dramatist
Syrie
Code name "Somerville"
Behind The painted veil
A world of veranda and prahu
Separation
The Villa Mauresque
Master Hacky
The teller of tales
An exercise in propaganda
The Bronzino boy
Betrayal.