Maugham essays

Only poetry did he never write; at one time or another during his long life he turned his hand to short stories, novels, drama, travel writing and essays; he often wrote in several of these genres at the same time and he produced masterpieces in all of them, though by no means in equal amount.

Maugham is a master writer; clear, easy to follow, interesting but certainly not obscure. Once you know his writing you will be addicted to it. Vintage Classics, Paperback, 2000. First published by Heinemann in 1958. "Points of View" was Somerset Maugham's last full-length book.

His best-known works are Of Human Bondage (1915) and Moon and Sixpence (1919). During World War I, Maugham assisted in the ambulance corps and in intelligence work. He was stationed in Russia shortly before the Bolshevik revolution; later, he said that if he had only been sent there six months before,...

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten.