Points Of View

Vintage Classics

By: William Somerset Maugham

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Paperback | 2 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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Another wide-ranging volume of essays from the prose master.

Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story - they present the enduring views and opinions of this eminent writer.

About the Author

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas’ Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer’s Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965

Industry Reviews

"One of the greatest yet least fashionable of all British writers" * Mirror * "One of the finest (though now frequently overlooked) novelists and dramatists of the 20th century" * Glasgow Herald * "One of my favourite writers" -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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