W. Somerset Maugham

'The Rain' Collection of short stories centres on the destructive and regenerative force of rain—physically, emotionally, psychologically and as a metaphor for life.

"El Traidor" es un relato cautivador de Somerset Maugham que se adentra en las complejidades de la lealtad y la traición. La historia se centra en...

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....

The Painted Veil is the story of Kitty Garstin, a young socialite who amuses herself with the pursuit of various men until settling into a marriage with a physician, who takes her to Hong Kong to begin his work....

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

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....

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

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

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

In this elegant comedy of manners, Penelope O'Farrell discovers that her husband has been having an affair with an attractive married woman....

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....

When beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane's husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic....

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....

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

This classic collection includes seven life-changing stories with ironic twists of fate, which can inform the young about their choices in life and recall the choices older people have made between success and happiness, duty and pleasure, and much more....

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....

Una novela en la que la experiencia femenina del amor, de la pasión, del adulterio y del afán de redención, desembocan en un mayor conocimiento de uno mismo, del otro y de las relaciones humanas....

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

A parallel story to the life of Paul Gauguin leaving everything for Tahiti and his separation from the rest of the world, with remarkable portraits of those along the way....

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