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Somerset Maugham: A Life Book
He was an instinctive and magnificent storyteller, with a talent also for success. Of Human Bondage was his masterpiece; The Razorâ??s Edge his most spectacular best-seller. He lived nearly ninety-two years, wrote seventy-eight books (forty million sold worldwide) and once had four plays running in London simultaneously. â??Rain,â? reflecting his fascination with the South Seas, is among the most widely read stories of our time. In World War I, he performed expertly and courageously as ambulance driver and as secret agent in Samoa and Russia. Eventually he knew â??everybodyâ?: Britainâ??s, Hollywoodâ??s and literatureâ??s royalty. He was seen as formidable, a cynic and the very emblem of worldliness. He wrote constantly about social and sexual entanglements but, in a closeted age, was … read more...
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