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What! Somerset Maugham has never written a great book! You list, I observe, his Of Human Bondage, but I fear you cannot have read it else you would not be guilty of such a statement. If Of Human Bondage is not a great book, then no great books have been written...
...Somerset Maugham writes a workman-like novel; easy to read, witty, sardonic, realistic, far from the borderline of boredom. He does not believe in "great" books; has never written, will never write one. His habitual bitterness, whether natural or acquired, has become part of his stock-in-trade. He now uses it effectively, usually cloaks it in brusque but polite irony...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...
...publishing, magazines, newspapers. In foreign contacts he will be valuable, for Mr. Doran is an international figure. Famed in London are his professional feasts. He has known how to secure such authors as Sir Arthur Gonan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Walpole, Herbert George Wells, Somerset Maugham, Frank Swinnerton. In the U. S. he has long been known as one of the very best people for very young writers to see. George Doran was never a man to turn away a novel because it was a "first." Consequently he has published even more bad books than good...
...Author Maugham has written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...