Author:William Somerset Maugham

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William Somerset Maugham
(1874–1965)

British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. Notable works include Of Human Bondage (1915), The Letter (1924), and The Razor's Edge (1944). [Excerpted from Wikipedia]

William Somerset Maugham

Open book Scans

Works

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Novels

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Short Story Collections

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  • Orientations (1899)
  • The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)

Individual short stories

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  • "Fear" in Century Magazine, 103 (1922), pp. 712–715
  • The Man with a Scar (1925)

Non-fiction

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  • The Land of the Blessed Virgin (1905)
  • On a Chinese Screen (1922)
  • The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930)
  • Don Fernando (1935)
  • My South Sea Island (1936)
  • The Summing Up (1938)
  • France at War (1940)
  • Books and You (1940)
  • Strictly Personal (1941)
  • Of Human Bondage (1946)
  • Great Novelists and Their Novels (1948)
  • A Writer's Notebook (1949)
  • Maugham, William Somerset (1949). The Pocket Book of Old Masters (in English). Pocket Books. 
  • The Writer's Point of View (1951)
  • The Vagrant Mood (1952)
  • Points of View (1958)

His bibliography on Wikipedia

Works about Maugham

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1965, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 58 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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