W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
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Writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874. He attended St. Thomas's Medical School in London. A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short mehr anzeigen stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Cakes and Ale / The Painted Veil / Liza of Lambeth / The Razor's Edge / Theatre / The Moon and Sixpence (1979) 100 Exemplare
W. Somerset Maugham erzählt, Die Unvergleichliche und neun andere unvergleichliche Geschichten (1940) 59 Exemplare
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Vol. 2 [II]): The Letter and Other Stories (1967) 24 Exemplare
Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works by… (2015) 23 Exemplare
Maugham Plays: Two: For Services Rendered, The Letter, Home and Beauty, and Lady Frederick (World Classics) (Vol 2) (1991) 22 Exemplare
The Great Novels & Short Stories of Somerset Maugham: Three Novels and Five Shor (2014) 19 Exemplare
Far and Wide: Nine Novels by W. Somerset Maugham. Selected by the Author. Volume One (1951) 17 Exemplare
Delphi Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 5) (2017) 14 Exemplare
Mirage: A Selection of Short Stories 14 Exemplare
The Selected Novels Of W. Somerset Maugham Vol II: The Moon and Sixpence; The Narrow Corner; The Painted Veil (1953) 12 Exemplare
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham IV. The Human Element and Other Stories (1967) 12 Exemplare
The Collected Plays of Somerset Maugham, Vol. 2 Our Betters, The Unattainable, Home and Beauty, The (1949) 11 Exemplare
Far and Wide (Liza of Lambeth; Cakes and Ale; Theatre; The Moon and Sixpence; The Narrow Corner, Volume 1) 9 Exemplare
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: III. The Book-Bag & Other Stories (1967) 9 Exemplare
THE SELECTED NOVELS OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM VOLUME ONE: LIZA OF LAMBETH; CAKES AND ALE; THEATRE (1953) 9 Exemplare
The Lion's Skin [short story] 8 Exemplare
[TO DO: Research best book] 7 Exemplare
Inte bara för nöjes skull : noveller 6 Exemplare
The Unconquered 6 Exemplare
Woman of the World [Theatre] 6 Exemplare
The Best Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham 6 Exemplare
Romans, tome 2 : L'Envoûté - La Passe dangereuse - La Ronde de l'amour - Le Fugitif - La Comédienne - Le Magicien (1996) 5 Exemplare
Mr. Know-All 4 Exemplare
Obras completas. Tomo III 4 Exemplare
Veitsen terällä 1 nide 4 Exemplare
Veitsen terällä 2 4 Exemplare
The Hairless Mexican (Macmillan Heinemann Simplified ELT Readers: 1600 Headwords: Intermediate Level) (1974) 4 Exemplare
Egy távoli gyarmaton 4 Exemplare
Elämän kahle. 3 nide [luvut 82-122] 4 Exemplare
Looking Back 4 Exemplare
Mina favoritnoveller 4 Exemplare
Red [short story] 4 Exemplare
The Door of Opportunity 4 Exemplare
Jane [short story] 4 Exemplare
The Treasure 4 Exemplare
The Verger [short story] 4 Exemplare
A Man From Glasgow 4 Exemplare
The bum 3 Exemplare
Superbia 3 Exemplare
NOVELLER II 3 Exemplare
NOVELLER I 3 Exemplare
GREAT SHORT STORIES: The Book Bag; Guilty; The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (Quick Reader 106) (1945) 3 Exemplare
The Facts of Life 3 Exemplare
Mabel 3 Exemplare
The Hairless Mexican [short story] 3 Exemplare
Cuentos 3 Exemplare
Giulia Lazzari 3 Exemplare
Tales of East and West 3 Exemplare
Der eigenartige Ehrbegriff des Herrn Sebastian und sechzehn andere eigenartige Geschichten. Aus d. Englischen v.… (1969) 3 Exemplare
The Buried Talent 2 Exemplare
Oggi e allora 2 Exemplare
Ashenden (edited) -- BBC radio play 2 Exemplare
The Sacred Flame -- BBC radio play 2 Exemplare
The Painted Veil -- BBC radio play 2 Exemplare
The Moon and Sixpence -- BBC radio play 2 Exemplare
Plays II: Our Betters; The Unattainable; Home and Beauty; The Circle; The Constant Wife; The Bread-Winner (1969) 2 Exemplare
Footprints in the Jungle [short story] 2 Exemplare
Les nouvelles completes de somerset maugham, madame la colonelle et 23 autres nouvelles (1981) 2 Exemplare
Obras Completas. Tomos I,II,III,IV 2 Exemplare
Луна и грош. Театр 2 Exemplare
Histórias dos mares do sul 2 Exemplare
Complete Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage Moon and Sixpence Trembling of a Leaf Magician Liza of Lambeth Circle… (2015) 2 Exemplare
Cloak and Dagger 2 Exemplare
Nouvelles bilingue t2 2 Exemplare
De brief, en andere verhalen 2 Exemplare
Kogutud novelle ja jutustusi. II 2 Exemplare
Kogutud novelle ja jutustusi. III 2 Exemplare
Obras completas. Liza de Lambeth, Cautiva de amor, Soberbia, El velo pintado, Servidumbre Humana. 2 Exemplare
Short Stories Vol 4. Somerset Maugham 2 Exemplare
A Man with a Conscience [short story] 2 Exemplare
The Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, vol 2 2 Exemplare
Sadie Thompson 2 Exemplare
Mackintosh 2 Exemplare
The Taipan 2 Exemplare
Masterson 2 Exemplare
A String of Beads 2 Exemplare
In A Strange Land 2 Exemplare
The Happy Couple 2 Exemplare
The Pool 2 Exemplare
The Ant and the Grasshopper 2 Exemplare
The Luncheon 2 Exemplare
Soberbia. El velo pintado 2 Exemplare
The Alien Corn 2 Exemplare
The Creative Impulse 2 Exemplare
Virtue 2 Exemplare
Sanatorium 2 Exemplare
A Woman Of Fifty 2 Exemplare
The Social Sense 2 Exemplare
ROUVA CRADDOCK 2 2 Exemplare
The Judgment Seat 2 Exemplare
ROUVA CRADDOCK 1 2 Exemplare
Olosuhteiden oikkuja 2 2 Exemplare
Olosuhteiden oikkuja 1 2 Exemplare
A Night in June 2 Exemplare
A Friend in Need 2 Exemplare
Omständigheternas makt : en novellantologi 2 Exemplare
German Harry [short story] 2 Exemplare
Maugham 6 Volume Set (Christmas Holiday (1939) Theatre (37), Of Human Bondage (1915) The Narrow Corner (1932) The Moon… (1930) 2 Exemplare
P. & O. 2 Exemplare
cakes and ale, up at the villa 2 Exemplare
Salvatore 2 Exemplare
Neil MacAdam 2 Exemplare
The End Of the Flight 2 Exemplare
Mr. Harrington's Washing 2 Exemplare
Louise 2 Exemplare
The Yellow Streak 2 Exemplare
The Vessel Of Wrath 2 Exemplare
Glasul porumbitei 1 Exemplar
The verdict & other stories 1 Exemplar
The Perfect Gentleman 1 Exemplar
The Human Element 1 Exemplar
Kangelane 1 Exemplar
Magikern 1 Exemplar
The Hero 1 Exemplar
Lo scandalo Mackenzie 1 Exemplar
Gran Mondo, Commedia in tre atti 1 Exemplar
Nari 1 Exemplar
Portretul unui gentleman si alte povestiri 1 Exemplar
Vittoria 1 Exemplar
Complete Works of W. Somerset Maugham 1 Exemplar
Los Clásicos del Siglo XX 1 Exemplar
Verdes Moradas 1 Exemplar
The Complete Short Stories Volume III 1 Exemplar
Don Segundo Sombra 1 Exemplar
Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham 1 Exemplar
The Avon Book of Modern Short Stories 1 Exemplar
Servidumbre humana parte 1 1 Exemplar
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAN COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED 1 Exemplar
French Joe 1 Exemplar
Liza of lambeth, cakes and ale, theatre 1 Exemplar
Oyun 1 Exemplar
W.S. Maugham - La moglie del Colonnello | Charlotte Perkins Gilman - La carta da parati gialla — Autor — 1 Exemplar
Trio 1 Exemplar
Encore 1 Exemplar
The hairless mexican and the traitor 1 Exemplar
W niewoli uczuć. T. 1 1 Exemplar
a outra comedia 1 Exemplar
OBRAS COMPLETAS. Tomo III. Novelas. 1 Exemplar
A Man From Glasgow and Mackintosh 1 Exemplar
W. S. Maugham Collected Short Stories 1 Exemplar
Cakes and Ale and Other Stories 1 Exemplar
The Consul 1 Exemplar
Obras completas : W. Somerset Maugham (VI) 1 Exemplar
Omnibus 2 1 Exemplar
Regen - Fünf Meistererzählungen [6CD-Box] 1 Exemplar
Summing Up 1 Exemplar
VACANZE DI NATALE ("Christmas holiday") 1 Exemplar
Constant Wife, The ; Act 1-3 1 Exemplar
Hjälten 1 Exemplar
The decline and fall of the detective story 1 Exemplar
Lo stagno (in Meticci) 1 Exemplar
A Casual Affair 1 Exemplar
Una goccia di sangue giallo (in Meticci) 1 Exemplar
Рассказы 1 Exemplar
Женское постоянство 1 Exemplar
Straight Flush 1 Exemplar
Raw Material 1 Exemplar
כתבי סומרטס מוהאם 1 Exemplar
La luna e sei soldi 1 Exemplar
Selected Masterpieces 1 Exemplar
The Noble Spaniard: A comedy in three acts (adapted from the French of Grenet-Dancourt) (1961) 1 Exemplar
Antologia do conto moderno: Somerset Maugham 1 Exemplar
أنماط غريبة من الحب 1 Exemplar
A Rehearsal 1 Exemplar
TALUA KIRALI 1 Exemplar
Episode 1 Exemplar
The Essential Works of Somerset Maugham 1 Exemplar
Sämtliche Erzählungen II 1 Exemplar
Murder Most Foul 1 Exemplar
Mayhew 1 Exemplar
Somerset Maughams bedste 1 Exemplar
Somerset Maugham 5 Volume Set (Christmas Holiday (1939) Of Human Bondage (1915) The Narrow Corner (1932) Cakes and Ale… (1932) 1 Exemplar
BUYULU ADALAR 1 Exemplar
ISPANYOL HAVASI 1 Exemplar
OYUN 1 Exemplar
Obra Escolhida - 2 volumes 1 Exemplar
Últimos Puntos de Vista 1 Exemplar
El Santo y el Arzobispo 1 Exemplar
Em Terras Estranhas 1 Exemplar
Malezya Tılsımı 1 Exemplar
Chuva e outras novelas 1 Exemplar
The Wash-Tub 1 Exemplar
The Back Of Beyond 1 Exemplar
Obras completas / Vol. 3, Novelas 1 Exemplar
Der bunte Schleier Roman 1 Exemplar
W. Somerset Maugham MR. MAUGHAM HIMSELF 1954 Doubleday & Co., NY Early Printing [Hardcover] unknown 1 Exemplar
Maugham: The Complete Short Stories Vol 1 1 Exemplar
Glödande liv 1 Exemplar
La tentazione di Adamo e altri racconti. 1 Exemplar
Gigolo And Gigolette 1 Exemplar
W. Somerset Maugham collection 1 Exemplar
Of Human Bondage, a Novel 1 Exemplar
東大名誉教授と名作・モームの『赤毛』を読む 英文精読術 1 Exemplar
W. Somerset Maugham Stories 1 Exemplar
Il filo del rasoio: romanzo 1 Exemplar
Collected Short Stories 1 Exemplar
The Best Mysteries of All Time Book Set : A Great Deliverance / Ashenden or The British Agent / The Tiger in the Smoke (2005) 1 Exemplar
Stories 1 Exemplar
An Official Position 1 Exemplar
Selected prose 1 Exemplar
The Closed Shop 1 Exemplar
Fools and their folly 1 Exemplar
Soberbia i Rosie 1 Exemplar
On Style: After Reading Burke 1 Exemplar
The Mother 1 Exemplar
The Poet 1 Exemplar
Fyra världar 1 Exemplar
Med alla medel 1 Exemplar
The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection: Eight Full-Cast Dramatisations and Readings (2020) 1 Exemplar
Plays Volume I 1 Exemplar
The Romantic Young Lady 1 Exemplar
The Happy Man 1 Exemplar
The Short Stories. The World Over. volume 2 1 Exemplar
The Making Of A Millionaire 1 Exemplar
Extremo oriente [Relatos] 1 Exemplar
Tras una noche de espanto 1 Exemplar
קרן-זווית 1 Exemplar
A orillas del Támesis 1 Exemplar
“After the Party” 1 Exemplar
“Back of Beyond” 1 Exemplar
The Spanish Priest 1 Exemplar
The Voice of the Turtle 1 Exemplar
The Escape 1 Exemplar
Appearance And Reality 1 Exemplar
Short stories 1 Exemplar
W. Somerset Maugham: Short Stories 1 Exemplar
Robie 1 Exemplar
Rain (Modern English Short Stories) 1 Exemplar
Il meglio 1 Exemplar
Az ördög sarkantyúja 1 Exemplar
Elämän kahle I-III 1 Exemplar
Obras completas : novelas 1 Exemplar
Der Menschen Hörigkeit : Roman Teil 1 [...] 1 Exemplar
Passioni: racconti 1 Exemplar
වනයේ තිබූ පා සයහන් 1 Exemplar
The Colonel's Lady 1 Exemplar
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (East and West, Vol. 1 / The World Over, Vol. 2) by W. Somerset… (1673) 1 Exemplar
Home 1 Exemplar
The Promise 1 Exemplar
Rzzonti orientali (Mackintosh - L'avanposto) 1 Exemplar
La tentazione di Adamo 1 Exemplar
La Carta Y Otras Narraciones 1 Exemplar
Loaves and Fishes 1 Exemplar
The Colonel's Lady and Other Stories 1 Exemplar
Plays VI 1 Exemplar
Flotsam And Jetsam 1 Exemplar
Elämän kahle. II nide 1 Exemplar
The Man with the Scar 1 Exemplar
The luncheon and three other stories 1 Exemplar
The beachcomber [Motion picture] 1 Exemplar
more great stories 1 Exemplar
The Dream 1 Exemplar
Five short stories / by W. Somerset Maugham; [editor, Severo Figarola; producer, Marta Irigoyen] (1981) 1 Exemplar
Elämän kahle. I nide 1 Exemplar
His Excellency 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Sämtliche Romane und Erzählungen: Die Brüder Karamasow (1880) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 29,585 Exemplare
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 926 Exemplare
Noa Noa. Nach dem Urmanuskript von 1893. ( Galerie). (1901) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 405 Exemplare
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Mitwirkender — 367 Exemplare
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Mitwirkender — 147 Exemplare
(Outstanding Short Stories: Level 5) By Edgar Allan Poe (Author) Paperback on (Apr , 2008) (1982) — Mitwirkender — 99 Exemplare
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Mitwirkender — 97 Exemplare
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Mitwirkender — 54 Exemplare
Mehr Spionagegeschichten von John Buchan bis Ian Fleming (1964) — Mitwirkender; Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 46 Exemplare
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2012) — Mitwirkender — 38 Exemplare
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels: Twelve Espionage Masterpieces (1986) — Mitwirkender — 31 Exemplare
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare
To the Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years' Entertainment; Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the… (1946) — Mitwirkender — 24 Exemplare
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
The Ghouls Book One - The Stories Behind The Classic Horror Films (1974) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
The Best Plays of 1926-1927: and the Year Book of the Drama in America (1927) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Moon and Sixpence [1942 film] — Original story — 5 Exemplare
Best-In-Books, Volume 48: Dodsworth / Great Impersonation / Green Hat / Along With Other Short Stories and Excerpts (1961) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Up At The Villa [2000 film] — Original story — 5 Exemplare
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Modern Short Stories — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Cakes and ale; or, The skeleton in the cupboard (Macmillan Student Series) [Abridged] (1973) — einige Ausgaben — 3 Exemplare
Start Counting; Three In Hand (The Facts Of Life, The Letter, Lord Mountdrago); Winston Churchill: The Struggle For… (1929) 3 Exemplare
An Anthology of English humor : short stories by various authors — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Modern Short Stories — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Great tales of adventure: A selection of condensed novels and full-length short stories (1982) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
50 seltsame Geschichten — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Our Betters [1933 film] — Original play — 1 Exemplar
Club del Misterio volum 10 -Conferencia sobre la habitación cerrada- (1982) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Mystery and Suspense — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Best Legal Stories — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Argosy (UK) [Vol. IV No. 5, June 1943] — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Maugham, William Somerset
- Geburtstag
- 1874-01-25
- Todestag
- 1965-12-16
- Begräbnisort
- Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England, UK (ashes buried outside the Maugham Library)
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- England
- Land (für Karte)
- England, UK
- Geburtsort
- UK Embassy, Paris, France
- Sterbeort
- Nice, France
- Wohnorte
- Paris, France
Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
Heidelberg, Germany
London, England, UK
Hollywood, California, USA
Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat, Côte d'Azur, France - Ausbildung
- Arzt
- Berufe
- novelist
playwright
spy
surgeon
ambulance driver - Beziehungen
- Maugham, Robin (nephew)
Maugham, Henry Neville (brother)
Maugham, Frederic Herbert (brother)
Maugham, Robert (grandfather)
Marr-Johnson, Diana (niece) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Order of the Companions of Honour (1954)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1950)
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Die titelgebende Hörigkeit empfindet Philip gegenüber dem Mädchen Mildred, der er völlig verfällt. Immer wieder rettet er sie und hilft ihr, obwohl sie ihn nur ausnutzt und verachtet.
Der Autor hat ein wunderbares Talent Personen zu beschreiben, ob das nun Hauptfiguren sind wie Philip oder Mildred oder Nebenfiguren. Jeder Lehrer im Internat stand mir deutlich vor Augen. So wird man sehr nah in Philips Geschichte hineingezogen und am Ende hätte ich gern noch gewusst, wie es weitergeht mit ihm.
Was mir immer gut gefällt an älteren Büchern, wenn über die damals aktuelle Kunst (Goethe, Ibsen, Wagner, Manet, Degas) geurteilt wird. Hundert Jahre später weiß man ja, wen die Geschichte wie bewertet.
Ausserdem hat das Buch oft auch ein kleines Augenzwinkern, was mir bei all der Tragik auch gut gefiel.… (mehr)