This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire....

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters....

On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past....

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, 18-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street....

Crippled 16-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption....

Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England.....

A breathtaking story of a woman marrying, growing up, bravely persevering, and seeing what traditionally was a man's point of view with the insights of a woman growing up in the same way....

In this tragic-comedic play, history repeats itself in marital break-ups and proposals as exes, in-laws, and offspring spend a few days at a country manor....

Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel....

With the South Seas as a background for such stories as "The Pacific", "Red", "Rain", and "The Pool", we experience scenes of passionate love, tragedy, and violence....

Based on the life of Postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence builds on a long tradition of European writing about the South Pacific as an exotic locale....

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river....

At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a cheerful disposition....

When noted English writer William Somerset Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his health, he gathered the materials and wrote the stories represented here....

The Painted Veil is the story of Kitty Garstin, a young woman living a high social life, who marries Walter Fane, a man that’s declared his love for Kitty, just to avoid being upstaged by her younger and less attractive sister getting married first....

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art....

Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self....

Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue, and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance....

Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father's money, and promptly marries a handsome, calm, and unimaginative man....