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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there."

Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage...

One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham’s reputation as a literary master

The Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to...

“There is something bracing about the sincerity of [Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well as the cancerous sore beneath.” —Leslie A. Marchand...

Maugham’s enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction

The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham’s most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siecle Paris...

When time itself begins to resist ending, a single city becomes trapped inside a year that refuses to let go.

Elias Vorn, a temporal systems engineer, discovers that the current year has developed an impossible weight-accumulating events, memories, and unfinished outcomes faster than they can be...

What do you get when you take a pinch of revolution, a dash of drugs, monsters, and tales of childhood warning and wrap them up in a pretty bow? A beautiful collection of ugly stories sure to inspire, repulse, and enlighten.

The Lard Is My Shepherd is a collection of nail-biting stories from...

William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century—and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more than five decades, adaptations of his plays, stories, and novels dominated movie theaters and...

A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucat n Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jer nimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hern n Cort's in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as...