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Somerset maugham short stories pdf William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and educated at the Kings. Although Maugham had written short stories early in his career. Short stories by somerset maugham pdf William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and educated at the Kings. Although Maugham had written short stories early in his. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten.^[1] He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson; Maugham instead trained as a doctor, although he never practised professionally, as his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, was published the same year he qualified.^[2]

A year after his first novel was published Maugham began contributing to magazines and periodicals; initially these were short stories, but he also wrote opinion pieces, non-fictional and autobiographical work, and letters. Much of his non-fictional writing was published in book form, and covered a range of topics, including travel, current affairs, autobiography and belles lettres.^[3][4] Maugham was also editor on a number of works, which often included adding a preface or introductory chapter to the work of other writers. In 1903 his first play was performed, A Man of Honour at the Imperial Theatre, London. It was the first of many of his works that were produced for the stage, and with the later development of cinema, his novels and stories were also adapted for the big screen.^[5][6]

By the time of his death in 1965 Maugham was one of the most commercially successful and gifted writers of the twentieth century, according to Bryan Connon, his biographer;^[1]The Times Espier screen locker 7. obituarist called Maugham 'the most assured English writer of his time', and wrote that 'no writer of his generation .. graced the world of English letters with more complete or more polished assurance'.^[3]

Novels and story collections[edit]

Publications in periodicals[edit]

Collected editions[edit]

Editor[edit]

Plays[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Notes and references[edit]

Notes

1. ^Later published as 'P & O'.^[47]
2. ^The UK edition was published in 1954 under the name Ten Novels and Their Authors.^[123]

References

1. ^ ^abConnon 2004.
2. ^Raphael 1976, pp. 16–20.
3. ^ ^ab'Mr. Somerset Maugham'. The Times (56507). London. 17 December 1965. p. 17.
4. ^Simpkins 1985, p. 162.
5. ^Sanders 1982, p. 22.
6. ^Ashley 2008, pp. 62–63.
7. ^Occhiogrosso 1989, pp. 214–16.
8. ^ ^abcd'W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 1874–1965'. Contemporary Authors. Gale. Retrieved 7 July 2014.(subscription required)
9. ^Thomas 1990, pp. 40–41.
10. ^'Liza of Lambeth. [A novel.]'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
11. ^'The Making of a Saint. [A tale.]'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
12. ^'Orientations. [Short stories.]'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
13. ^'The Hero'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
14. ^'Mrs. Craddock'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
15. ^'The Merry-go-round'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
16. ^'The Bishop's Apron: a study in the origins of a great family'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
17. ^'The Explorer'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
18. ^'The Magician'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
19. ^'Of Human Bondage'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
20. ^'The Moon and Sixpence. A novel'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
21. ^'The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
22. ^'The Painted Veil'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
23. ^'The Casuarina Tree: Six Stories'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
24. ^'Ashenden; or, the British Agent'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
25. ^'Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
26. ^'Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
27. ^'The Book-Bag'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
28. ^'The Narrow Corner'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
29. ^'Ah King. Six stories'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
30. ^'The Judgement Seat, etc'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
31. ^'Cosmopolitans'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
32. ^'Theatre'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
33. ^'Christmas Holiday'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
34. ^'Princess September and the Nightingale'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
35. ^'The Mixture as Before'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
36. ^'Up at the Villa'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
37. ^'The Hour Before the Dawn'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
38. ^'The Unconquered'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
39. ^'The Razor's Edge'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
40. ^'Then and Now : a novel'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
41. ^'Creatures of Circumstance'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
42. ^Calder 1990, p. 193.
43. ^'Quartet / stories by W. Somerset Maugham; screen plays by R.C. Sherriff'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
44. ^'Trio: stories / by W.Somerset Maugham. Screen adaptation by W.Somerset Maugham, R.C. Sherrif and Noel Langley'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
45. ^'Encore. Stories by W. Somerset Maugham. Screen adaptation by T. E. B. Clarke, Arthur Macrae and Eric Ambler'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
46. ^Stott 1973, pp. 198–215.
47. ^Stott 1973, p. 202.
48. ^Ashley 2008, pp. 66–71.
49. ^'East and West'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
50. ^'Altogether'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
51. ^'The Favorite Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
52. ^'The Round Dozen'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
53. ^'The Somerset Maugham Sampler'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
54. ^ ^abStott 1973, p. 173.
55. ^'The Maugham Reader'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
56. ^'The Complete Short Stories'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
57. ^'The Collected Plays'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
58. ^'The World Over'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
59. ^'The Selected Novels of W. Somerset Maugham'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
60. ^'The Partial View'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
61. ^'The Travel Books of W. Somerset Maugham'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
62. ^Stott 1973, pp. 177–78.
63. ^Stott 1973, p. 1738.
64. ^'Selected Prefaces and Introductions'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
65. ^'A Maugham Twelve'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
66. ^'Seventeen Lost Stories'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
67. ^'Maugham's Malaysian Stories'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
68. ^'A Traveller in Romance'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
69. ^ ^ab'The Venture. An annual of art and literature. Edited by Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham. [Illustrated.] [no. 1, 2.]'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
70. ^'The truth at last from Charles Hawtrey'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
71. ^'Traveller's Library'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
72. ^Stott 1973, p. 188.
73. ^'The House with the Green Shutters, etc'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
74. ^'Tellers of Tales; 100 Short Stories'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
75. ^'Great Modern Reading; W. Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Modern English'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
76. ^'David Copperfield'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
77. ^'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
78. ^'Pride and Prejudice'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
79. ^'Old man Goriot'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
80. ^'Wuthering Heights'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
81. ^'The Brothers Karamazov'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
82. ^'Madame Bovary'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
83. ^'Moby Dick; or, The white whale'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
84. ^'Stendhal's The red and the Black'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
85. ^'War and Peace'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
86. ^'A choice of Kipling's prose'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
87. ^ ^abSanders 1982, pp. 22–23.
88. ^Stott 1973, p. 35.
89. ^Stott 1973, p. 55.
90. ^ ^abStott 1973, p. 56.
91. ^Stott 1973, p. 57.
92. ^Stott 1973, p. 58.
93. ^ ^abStott 1973, p. 59.
94. ^Stott 1973, p. 60.
95. ^Stott 1973, p. 61.
96. ^Stott 1973, p. 71.
97. ^Stott 1973, p. 72.
98. ^Stott 1973, p. 78.
99. ^Stott 1973, p. 79.
100. ^Stott 1973, p. 82.
101. ^Stott 1973, p. 83.
102. ^Stott 1973, pp. 84 & 280.
103. ^Stott 1973, p. 84.
104. ^Stott 1973, pp. 93–94.
105. ^Stott 1973, p. 94.
106. ^Stott 1973, pp. 97–98.
107. ^Stott 1973, pp. 103–04.
108. ^Stott 1973, p. 109.
109. ^Stott 1973, p. 113.
110. ^Stott 1973, pp. 158–59.
111. ^Stott 1973, pp. 307–08.
112. ^Thomas 1990, p. 41.
113. ^'The Land of the Blessed Virgin: sketches and impressions in Andalusia, etc'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
114. ^'On a Chinese Screen'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
115. ^'The Gentleman in the Parlour'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
116. ^'Don Fernando : or Variations on some Spanish themes'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
117. ^'My South Sea Island'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
118. ^'The Summing Up. [Autobiographical reminiscences.]'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
119. ^'France at War'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
120. ^'Books and You'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
121. ^'Strictly Personal'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
122. ^'Of Human Bondage, With a Digression on the Art of Fiction'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
123. ^Stott 1973, pp. 148–49.
124. ^'Great Novelists and Their Novels'. Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
125. ^'A Writer's Notebook'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
126. ^'The Writer's Point of View'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
127. ^'The Vagrant Mood. Six essays'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
128. ^'Points of View. [Essays.]'. British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

Sources[edit]

• Ashley, Mike (September 2008). 'W. Somerset Maugham'. The Book and Magazine Collector. Metropolis International (98).
• Calder, Robert L. (1990). 'W. Somerset Maugham'. In Beum, Robert (ed.). Modern British Essayists. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN978-0-8103-4580-5.
• Connon, Bryan (2004). 'Maugham, (William) Somerset (1874–1965)'. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34947. Retrieved 6 August 2014.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Occhiogrosso, Frank (1989). 'W. Somerset Maugham'. In Benstock, Bernard; Staley, Thomas (eds.). British Mystery Writers, 1920–1939. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN978-0-7876-3072-0.
• Raphael, Frederic (1976). Somerset Maugham and His World. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd. ISBN978-0-500-13059-9.
• Sanders, Charles (1982). 'W. Somerset Maugham'. In Weintraub, Stanley (ed.). Modern British Dramatists, 1900–1945. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN978-0-8103-0937-1.
• Simpkins, Scott (1985). 'W. Somerset Maugham'. In Staley, Thomas F. (ed.). British Novelists, 1890–1929. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN978-0-8103-1714-7.
• Stott, Raymond Toole (1973). A Bibliography of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham. London: Kaye & Ward. ISBN978-0-7182-0950-6.
• Thomas, Lew (June 1990). 'W. Somerset Maugham'. The Book and Magazine Collector. Diamond Publishing Group (75).

External links[edit]

• Works by W. Somerset Maugham at Open Library
• Works by W. Somerset Maugham at Project Gutenberg
• Works by W. Somerset Maugham at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about W. Somerset Maugham at Internet Archive

Susan Hill, CBE (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971.She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature.^[1][2]

Early life and education[edit]

Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Her home town was later referred to in her novel A Change for the Better (1969) and in some short stories like Cockles and Mussels.

She attended Scarborough Convent School, where she became interested in theatre and literature. Her family left Scarborough in 1958 and moved to Coventry where her father worked in car and aircraft factories. Hill states^[3] that she attended a girls’ grammar school, Barr's Hill. Her fellow pupils included Jennifer Page, the first Chief Executive of the Millennium Dome. At Barrs Hill, she took A levels in English, French, History, and Latin, proceeding to an English degree at King's College London.^[4] By this time, she had already written her first novel, The Enclosure, which was published by Hutchinson in her first year at the university. The novel was criticised by The Daily Mail for its sexual content, with the suggestion that writing in this style was unsuitable for a 'schoolgirl'.^[5]

Her next novel Gentleman and Ladies was published in 1968. This was followed in quick succession by A Change for the Better, I'm the King of the Castle, The Albatross and other stories, Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night, A Bit of Singing and Dancing and In the Springtime of the Year, all written and published between 1968 and 1974.

Personal life[edit]

She was engaged to David Lepine, organist at Coventry Cathedral but he died of a coronary in 1972.^[6] In 1975, she married Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, and they moved to Stratford upon Avon. Their first daughter, author Jessica Ruston, was born in 1977, and their second daughter, Clemency, was born in 1985. A middle daughter, Imogen, was born prematurely, and died at the age of five weeks.^[7] In 2013 it was reported that she had left her husband and moved in with Barbara Machin, creator of Waking The Dead, who is adapting Hill's crime fiction series Serrailler for ITV, and previously adapted another of Susan's works The Small Hand.^[8] However, she said that she was 'still married' to Wells in 2015.^[9] In 2016, Machin left Hill for comedian Rhona Cameron, prompting a friend to comment to the press, 'Susan is devastated and heart-broken. Barbara announced out of the blue that she was leaving her. It’s very sad. Susan still loves her and hopes she will see sense and come back.'^[10]

In the 1990s Hill founded her own publishing company, Long Barn Books,^[11] which has published two Simon Serrailler short stories and The Magic Apple Tree, all by Susan Hill, as well as The Dream Coat by Adele Geras, Colouring In by Angela Ruth and Counting My Chickens by Deborah Devonshire.^[12]

Published works[edit]

Hill's novels are written in a descriptive gothic style, especially her ghost story The Woman in Black, which was published in 1983. She has expressed an interest in the traditional English ghost story, which relies on suspense and atmosphere to create its impact, similar to the classic ghost stories by Montague Rhodes James and Daphne du Maurier.^[13] The novel was turned into a play in 1987 and continues to run in the West End of London, joining the group of plays that have run for over twenty years. It was also made into a television film in 1989, and a film by Hammer Film Productions in 2012. She wrote another ghost story with similar ingredients, The Mist in the Mirror in 1992, and a sequel to du Maurier's Rebecca entitled Mrs. De Winter in 1993.

In 2004, Hill began a series of crime novels featuring detective Simon Serrailler, entitled The Various Haunts of Men (2004). This was followed by The Pure in Heart (2005), The Risk of Darkness (2006), The Vows of Silence (2009), Shadows in the Street (2010), The Betrayal of Trust (2011), A Question of Identity (2013), The Soul of Discretion (2014) and A Breach of Security, a short story (2014) and Hero, another short story (2016). One of Hill's plays, On the Face of It, has been included in the Indian school curriculum for the 12th grade. Her ninth book in the Simon Serrailler series, The Comforts of Home, was published in October 2018.^[14] The tenth book in the Simon Serrailler series, The Benefit of Hindsight, will be published in October 2019^[15].

Awards[edit]

• 1971 Somerset Maugham AwardI'm the King of the Castle
• 1972 Whitbread Novel AwardThe Bird of Night also shortlisted for the Booker Prize
• 1972 John Llewellyn Rhys PrizeThe Albatross
• 1988 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Gold Award) (6–8 years category) Can It Be True?: A Christmas Story
• 2012 CBE awarded by the queen

Somerset Maugham Novels

Somerset Maugham Short Stories

References[edit]

Somerset Maugham Short Stories Pdf

1. ^'No. 60173'. The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 7.
2. ^'CBE'. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
3. ^'About Susan - Autobiography of author Susan Hill'. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
4. ^'Biography (part 2)'. www.susan-hill.com. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2013.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
5. ^Freeman, Hadley (18 October 2003). 'Cotswold chameleon'. The Guardian (UK). Guardian News and Media Ltd. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
6. ^'The author of the most celebrated ghost story of modern times talks about wickedness, her dark new novella – and why she would never read the latest Man Booker winner', The Guardian, 25 Oct 2013 Retrieved 2016-07-03.
7. ^'Husband of The Woman in Black author Susan Hill exits, stage left'. Telegraph.co.uk. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
8. ^'Husband of The Woman in Black author Susan Hill exits, stage left'. Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
9. ^Hill, Susan. 'Twitter post'. Twitter. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
10. ^Shakeskpeare, Sebastian (20 January 2016). 'Queen of the ghost story heartbroken by love split'. Daily Mail. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
11. ^Hill, Susan: The Beacon, dust jacket, Chatto & Windus, 2008.
12. ^'About Long Barn Books'. longbarnbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
13. ^'The Woman in Black'. susanhill.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
14. ^'Comforts of Home - new'. www.overlookpress.com. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
15. ^https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617653/the-benefit-of-hindsight-by-susan-hill/9781784742782

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Susan Hill at British Council: Literature
• A writer's life: Susan Hill from The Daily Telegraph
• Susan Hill at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database