英语词汇“Maugham”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

It's a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn't want to call Somerset Maugham up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In his small library were works of poetry and philosophy and novels by such writers as Somerset Maugham. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He read newer authors as well, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, all purchased from his favorite stall on College Street with pujo money. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fridge was just next to the manservant's room in the basement, the door of which was open; Maugham glanced in and saw a naked teenage boy on the bed. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z

Maugham’s verdict on Bangkok would make a brutal TripAdvisor review today. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Somerset Maugham, sitting upright on a vast grey couch and looking sideways out of the frame, fares less well under Kar's uncharacteristically stern gaze. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z

She served on several literary prize committees including the Somerset Maugham, Whitbread and Booker. Obituary: Elizabeth Jane Howard 2014-01-02T19:26:16Z

She should be good value in Philip Wilson's revival of Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, a play that is the epitome of the old-fashioned drawing room comedy. This week's new theatre 2011-02-05T00:05:41Z

He had some luck landing acting jobs in commercials and finally won a tiny part on the 1950-51 anthology series “Somerset Maugham TV Theater.” Richard Donner, Director of ‘Superman’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ Films, Dies at 91 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

The narrator of the title story, a Montana transplant from Back East, contends that Somerset Maugham, Buster Keaton and the Replacements are “the things that matter.” The Moral of These Stories? ‘You Are Not as Special as You Think’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

That quotation from W. Somerset Maugham is the motto of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band. Dance Review: Carolina Chocolate Drops and Twyla Tharp’s ‘Cornbread Duet’ 2014-04-13T21:17:32Z

This entirely bizarre but captivating noir melodrama, which takes place over one Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, is directed by Robert Siodmak and written by Herman Mankiewicz, adapted from the novel by Somerset Maugham. My favourite Christmas film: Christmas Holiday 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Among those who saw the Manet sell for the then huge sum of £65,000 were Kirk Douglas, Somerset Maugham and Margot Fonteyn. Records set at art auctions 2010-06-23T23:01:00Z

One character says of another, “He’ll get old quite suddenly and look like Somerset Maugham.” Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Maugham had no reason to go any further, nor did I want him to. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

I read Maugham's story only after seeing the show. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

In Maugham’s “The Moon and Sixpence,” the stockbroker-turned-artist Strickland is posthumously recognized as a genius. Photos, Perhaps, Show a Rare Glimpse of Gauguin in Tahiti 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

In 1959, for a TV movie of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence, he altered the dashing Laurence Olivier into a victim of leprosy. Remembering Dick Smith, the Godfather of Movie Makeup 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

Rebecca West on Somerset Maugham: “He couldn’t write for toffee, bless his heart.” Critic?s Notebook: Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths 2010-10-22T23:00:00Z

The Servant has its spark in an extraordinary event in Maugham's own life, to be treasured by connoisseurs of British sex and class. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z

The storytelling has a choppy rhythm that leaves the impression that the authors are still wrestling with their vision — still searching for a modern entry point into Maugham's century-old world. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

That is the premise of Somerset Maugham's whiplash 1920s comedy, revived by Philip Wilson with an eye and ear for its brittle, sometimes savage wit. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z

In 1984, he agreed to do “Ghostbusters” only if the studio paid for him to remake “The Razor’s Edge,” a drama set in World War I and based on W. Somerset Maugham’s book. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

In Maugham's original story, Borneo is described and the miscreant drunk vividly sketched. Smack Family Robinson; Before the Party; A Doll's House – review 2013-04-06T23:05:36Z

Predictably, the newspapers at the time called it the "sale of the century", and among those wearing dinner jackets and posh frocks in the audience were Kirk Douglas, Somerset Maugham and Margot Fonteyn. Manet self-portrait fetches record ?22m at Sotheby's auction 2010-06-23T09:35:00Z

But the presence of Petronius and Somerset Maugham might catch some readers by surprise. Flash mob 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Freya Stark described him as "a Hellenistic lesser sea-god of a rather low period", Somerset Maugham as "a middle-class gigolo for upper-class women", and Fermor admitted his own occasional "rhinoceros-hide obtuseness". Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z

While not in the least like a James Bond thriller, Maugham’s golden-age classic is equally compelling in its own way, just right for late summer escape reading. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Feeling the onset of malaria, Maugham checked into the Oriental Hotel, where verandas overlooked the busy waterfront. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Those groaning shelves of research books have earned her a reputation as the go-to designer for period costumes, with revivals of Shaw, Maugham, Williams, O’Neill and Molière taking up a large chunk of her biography. A Lifetime Tony for the Costume Designer Jane Greenwood 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The show, which is having its world premiere here at the Old Globe Theatre, has kept Maugham's title and the basic pressure-cooker story line. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Maugham’s book is about the power of spirituality to heal. Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

If you would write perfectly, Maugham once declared, you should write as clearly, as urbanely as Voltaire, which is just what he himself tries to do. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

I studied psychology as an undergrad, enrolled in numerous philosophy courses to satiate my ever-curious soul, read Dostoevsky and Maugham fervently, but I’ve not the least bit of interest in pursuing a career … in anything! How to become a writer? 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z

One evening, Maugham went on a date with Mary Soames, the daughter of Winston Churchill. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z

Banned in Spain during the Franco era, it won the prestigious Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962 and is regarded as a classic, remaining in print, with several revisions, to this day. Hugh Thomas, Prodigious Author of Spanish History, Dies at 85 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

On land, villas once owned by literary stars like Jules Verne and W. Somerset Maugham are now inhabited by wealthy Arabs and Russians. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Was it Somerset Maugham who once said there was no more reliable pleasure in life than reading the catalogues of secondhand booksellers? Review | Miss going to the bookstore? Here are some books about books to help get you through. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

No one, however, subjected him to ridicule and humiliation of the kind Somerset Maugham and Aneurin Bevan, the stammering heroes of my childhood, endured. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z

Bulgakov’s “The Embroidered Towel” finds an inexperienced doctor unsure if he’s up to the task; the doctor in Maugham’s “Lord Mountdrago” questions his role in the decline of an officious British minister. Perspective | Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Other famous literary names published in the London version of the Strand included HG Wells, Somerset Maugham, GK Chesterton and PG Wodehouse, who contributed 150 stories over a period of 30 years. Unseen Joseph Heller story out this week 2013-07-22T14:19:31Z

Her Mrs. St. Maugham was “at once imperious, funny and spiteful,” Mr. Spencer wrote. Margaret Tyzack, Award-Winning Actress, Dies at 79 2011-06-28T02:45:50Z

An early American review of “Chocolat” compared its “intertwined themes of colonialism and forbidden love” to one of Somerset Maugham’s steamy Malaysian melodramas. ‘Chocolat’: What France Knew 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Despite all this personal drama, Maugham never stopped writing and reporting. A year of magical biographies 2010-11-19T22:09:00Z

It's set in the 1920s and reads like Somerset Maugham. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z

It won the Somerset Maugham award when it was published in 2008. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z

As the backdrops for dramas by writers like W. Somerset Maugham and S. N. Behrman, such rooms figured prominently on Broadway during the first half of the 20th century. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z

There's a whole sub-category of writers who were shaped by medical studies, from Keats to Somerset Maugham. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z

To locate the gay gene in , you have to go back to its source, the 1948 novella written by Robin Maugham, the nephew of W Somerset Maugham. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z

It doesn’t get more Somerset Maugham than this. Probably the best bar in the world: readers' travel tips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

The colonial-era edifice where Maugham stayed is now called the Author’s Wing. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

While no one denies Maugham’s gifts as a storyteller, his prose has regularly been dismissed as pedestrian. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

But once he recovered, Maugham experienced a rush of euphoria at the waterside setting. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

That line, taken almost verbatim from Maugham, prompted a collective nod from the audience. Review: Falling Hard for a Master Manipulator in ‘Of Human Bondage’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

World-premiere musical adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham short story about a woman of ill repute who upends the lives of a missionary and others in 1920s Samoa. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

I also had a brief encounter with Maugham in 1960, recording a radio interview at a literary prize-giving in London, when he began by politely apologising for his stammer. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z

For the writer on your list â€” Maugham was one of those people who couldn't not write. A year of magical biographies 2010-11-19T22:09:00Z

Parker got what might have been a big break when she was cast as the Machiavellian Mildred in a 1946 remake of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage. Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z

I loved the stories in “Ashenden: Or the British Agent” by W. Somerset Maugham. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Joshua Spassky, her third, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2008. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z

A production of Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival theatre in 1976 was so successful that it went to the West End, Canada and on tour in Britain. Googie Withers obituary 2011-07-16T09:19:52Z

And then we have this, from Somerset Maugham: "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life." Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z

Maugham signed up to serve in Switzerland then revolutionary Russia, where he narrowly escaped extermination by the Bolsheviks. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z

Eliot was famous, and he was a man, and she turned him, as she did Somerset Maugham and Bertrand Russell, into a leathery old lizard. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z

When she received the Somerset Maugham Award, which is to be used for foreign travel, she decided to visit Japan. The unconventional life of Angela Carter — prolific author, reluctant feminist 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

I am on a somewhat leisurely around-the-world journey and would like some suggestions for books with travel and self-discovery as a theme, like “The Razor’s Edge,” by W. Somerset Maugham. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

One day, I happened to notice a collection of W. Somerset Maugham’s stories. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

The film, though unnamed in the novel, is the 1934 production of W. Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage” starring Bette Davis. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

Somerset Maugham's seldom-read The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong is a quick, interesting and, above all, sinuously written travelogue of the author's time in the region. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z

Maugham pretended he hadn't heard and simply went away without replying. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z

For the cold-eyed Maugham, that meeting and its disastrous consequences offered an occasion to attest cynically to human hypocrisy. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z

“I’ve always been obsessed with anything French,” Ms. Bryant said, but she struggled with learning the language, instead spending wistful afternoons sitting in the Place des Vosges, reading W. Somerset Maugham and Tennessee Williams. As ‘Mad Men’ Ends, the Woman Behind the Costumes Is Just Getting Started 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

There was a lot of herself invested in Mrs St Maugham - a lack of sentimentality, a great pragmatism, incredible loyalty and a huge heart. Forsyte Saga actress Tyzack dies 2011-06-28T15:04:27Z

“To eat well in England, you should have breakfast three times a day,” W. Somerset Maugham once said. T Magazine: Welsh Rarebit Redux 2011-03-23T16:09:23Z

A woman he was dating was acting in a stage version of W. Somerset Maugham’s “Home and Beauty,” and he began hanging out at the theater. Hugh O’Brian, square-jawed actor who played Wyatt Earp on TV, dies at 91 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Pearson supplies the character with a Dickensian back story, but Maugham's tale is what is. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

That, along with an overextended final act in which Maugham repeats himself, takes the shine off what is otherwise a shamelessly old-fashioned but entertaining comedy of manners. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z

It’s been rumored that Maugham wrote as many as 14 additional stories about Ashenden’s war service, but that Winston Churchill told him they violated the Official Secrets Act. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

I had written seven novels including Mr Wroe's Virgins and Island, and had won prizes ranging from the Somerset Maugham award to the Writers Guild best fiction book, but that was no help now. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z

A Somerset Maugham story is always a story, not a literary experiment or tendentious social document. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

I started reading “Of Human Bondage” by W. Somerset Maugham when I was 26 — about 10 years ago — while on vacation in the Dominican Republic with my then-fiance. From ‘Game of Thrones’ to a Subaru ad, here’s what makes Washington Post readers cry 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

The Somerset Maugham award is more refreshing: not only is the list of winners disarmingly freer of the usual suspects, but the comparatively modest prize must be spent on foreign travel. I've got chronic prize fatigue 2010-10-09T10:00:00Z

Maugham was a stylistic master at letting his characters tell stories within the story, getting around the problems inherent in a first-person point of view or third-person stream of consciousness narration. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Long overshadowed by William Wyler’s 1940 remake starring Bette Davis, the first filming, from 1929, of W. Somerset Maugham’s stage play “The Letter” has re-emerged, thanks to a new DVD edition from Warner Archive. Video: A Tragic Actress?s Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming 2011-07-17T01:23:02Z

“In the Castle of My Skin” was a critical success, winning the Somerset Maugham Award and earning Mr. Lamming a Guggenheim fellowship. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

It was accepted, and it went on to win the Somerset Maugham prize. A life in writing: Tim Parks 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z

The countryside, the landscape of thick river and dense forest that is commemorated in the fiction of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, still feels close. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z

Plenty of authors suffer a precipitous decline after they die, of course: Somerset Maugham was once ubiquitous; now he isn't. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z

But which director initially bought the rights to Robin Maugham’s novella and commissioned a script from Pinter? Harold Pinter, by Michael Billington ? quiz 2011-08-04T15:56:00Z

But at its core, Maugham’s story is a call for compassion for ourselves, and a plea for forgiveness for the mistakes of our youth. Review: Falling Hard for a Master Manipulator in ‘Of Human Bondage’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife is revived at Salisbury Playhouse by Philip Wilson, a director with a knack for mining beneath the surface. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-01-28T16:50:48Z

Monaco is known, of course, as one of Europe’s most gossipy playpens for the rich and a tax haven for the yachting class — a “sunny place for shady people,” as Somerset Maugham famously put it. Prince Albert II of Monaco Charges Forth as Eco-Warrior 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Her life changed when she went to live in Tokyo for two years on prize money from a Somerset Maugham Award. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The novel’s electric prose established Mr. Amis as an important young English writer and won the Somerset Maugham Award for writers under 30. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

At age 15, I thought W. Somerset Maugham was the most phenomenal writer who ever lived. Sloane Crosley: By the Book 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

But neither Maugham nor Ackland is interested in criminal psychology, offering only alcoholism as explanation. Smack Family Robinson; Before the Party; A Doll's House – review 2013-04-06T23:05:36Z

Maugham’s relationship with Searle had already shocked society when the writer tried to legally adopt his much younger lover and disinherit his daughter, Liza. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

One of my first ideas was to read “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, alongside “Mr. Know-All” by W. Somerset Maugham. Works of Fiction That Are Best Read Together 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

And now here we have it, elegantly related by Selina Hastings, the author of finely wrought, literate biographies of Somerset Maugham, Nancy Mitford and Waugh himself. A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

God knows what Maugham would say about that. Why books need literary prizes 2013-01-29T07:00:00Z

And they stay in and read a lot: recent recommendations to each other include David Foster Wallace and Somerset Maugham. Keira Knightley: ‘I used to try to be sensible and good and professional’ 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Yet it was as a novelist that he first gained notice, with “This Sporting Life,” published in 1960, which won the Somerset Maugham Fiction Award. David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

At first the novel struck me as a kind of sibling to W. Somerset Maugham’s “Razor’s Edge,” or “The Moon and Sixpence,” novels whose narrators are only ancillary characters in the tales they deliver. ‘In a World That Shouts, This Book Is a Song Played Softly,’ Ethan Hawke Writes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Maugham's book is far more candid about the homosexual act. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z

When Tynan read it, he remarked that he couldn't understand how Somerset Maugham, who'd died the previous year at the age of 91, could have become a millionaire and still stammered. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z

Reading his books has led me to admire Somerset Maugham, whom I was too snobbish to look at when I was young. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Not that you get the impression Maugham really likes the calculating Constance – or indeed any of the other women – very much. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z

I had read so little that I didn't know how to … I would look at that experience and try to Joseph Conrad-ise it; or Somerset Maugham it. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z

And Maugham’s cosmopolitan sensibility, his feel for the personal and social dramas provoked by clashing cultures. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Our oldest extant awards – the James Tait Black; the Somerset Maugham – don't have the selling power of the Pulitzer or the Goncourt. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z

Her third novel, The Distance Between Us, won the Somerset Maugham award and most recently The Hand That First Held Mine was awarded the 2010 Costa novel prize. Live webchat: Maggie O'Farrell 2011-08-16T09:38:00Z

New Yorkers that fall enjoyed a new play by W. Somerset Maugham and a new novel by P. G. Wodehouse. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Maugham’s particular strength as a writer lies in his establishment of a close intimacy between his viewpoint character — typically a version of himself — and the reader. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

A latecomer to English – he only mastered it in his 20s – Conrad reads like he taught Greene and Maugham how to write. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z

Maugham's play begins as smart Wildean comedy and turns into a Shavian expose of the economic position of woman within marriage. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z

Somerset Maugham, in Points of View, writes that Henry James never knew how ordinary people behaved. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z

Supreme Court to intervene, if it felt Scotland had overreached, said Maugham, the lawyer. What U.K. veto of Scottish gender bill means for secession, LGBT rights 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

"How many times do corporates need to give money to Tory MPs after getting help winning vast public contracts before concluding we have a cash for contracts problem," the Project's executive director Jolyon Maugham said. Ex-minister Liam Fox gets donation from Covid test firm he recommended 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Maugham said the government hadn’t done everything perfectly but had done a good job overall. Anti-mandate protesters converge on New Zealand Parliament 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Mr Maugham said his group intended to take the case to the Supreme Court. Covid contract to Dominic Cummings friends ruled lawful by Appeal Court 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

After the ruling Jolyon Maugham, the founder of the Good Law Project, said "never again should any government treat a public health crisis as an opportunity to enrich its associates and donors at public expense". UK acted unlawfully with 'VIP' COVID contract lane, court rules 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

"Government has to tell us what happened, because otherwise we can't know," Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, said. PPE for health service that cost taxpayer £1k sold on for £5 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The director of the Good Law Project, barrister Jolyon Maugham, called the government's replacement amendment a "cruel trick on those of us who want to be able safely to swim in our rivers and beaches". Campaigners want tougher action from MPs on sewage 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

The only way to restore trust, Mr. Maugham said, was to recognize systemic police problems through a public inquiry and the government’s handling of broader failings within the system — and its response to such violence. London Police, Under Fire on Everard Murder, Respond With Safety Tips 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

After Tuesday’s ruling, Jolyon Maugham, founder of the Good Law Project, said the government should look into proposals to improve procurement and stop wasting taxpayers’ money. UK acted unlawfully over contract linked to PM's ex-aide, court rules 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

“This is not government for the public good. It is government for the good of friends of the Conservative Party,” Good Law Project director Jo Maugham said. UK court rules government acted unlawfully in contract award 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

A picture of the essay hanging on a hallway wall at Maugham Elementary School was posted on Facebook Sunday evening. Fifth-grader’s first-person Hitler essay listing ‘accomplishments’ taken out of context, school says 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Jo Maugham, a tax QC and the founder of the campaigning group the Good Law Project, said the number of companies File on 4 discovered were set up in this way was "staggering". Mini umbrella firms costing UK taxpayer millions 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z

Jolyon Maugham, the executive director of the Good Law Project, a governance watchdog, said people had lost trust in the police and the criminal justice system. London Police, Under Fire on Everard Murder, Respond With Safety Tips 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a maxim that has been kicked around for years, but may have been best said by the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. The Bills Won the Stefon Diggs Trade. Right? 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

The letter was sent by the food charity Sustain and the Good Law Centre, led by the campaigning lawyer Jolyon Maugham. Court action threatened over school meal vouchers 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mr Maugham said he "welcomed" the RSPCA's decision not to bring charges against him and said there was "competing" advice on how to act in such situations. Lawyer will not be charged for killing fox - RSPCA 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

“Wasn’t a great deal of fun. Got caught up in the protective netting around the chickens and I wasn’t sure what else to do. Not looking forward to untangling it,” Maugham wrote. A British barrister was famous for battling Brexit. Then he beat a fox to death, while wearing a kimono. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Now that I’ve grown old, I realize that for most of us it is not enough to have achieved personal success,” Maugham said. The Bills Won the Stefon Diggs Trade. Right? 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Giving further details, Maugham said he was nursing a hangover and wearing his wife’s “too small green kimono” when the fox got into his backyard and threatened chickens he keeps. British lawyer claims he killed fox with baseball bat while wearing wife's kimono, sparks backlash, investigation 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

The campaigners, led by barrister Jo Maugham QC, argued that the deal contravened legislation preventing Northern Ireland forming part of a separate customs territory to Great Britain. Tariffs on 'most' GB to NI goods under Brexit deal 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

“We will review this decision carefully but my instinct is that we are unlikely to proceed to a full hearing ..,” said lawyer Jolyon Maugham who brought the case. Scottish court rejects bid to declare Johnson's Brexit deal unlawful 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Not sure guns are a great idea in Central London,” Maugham answered. A British barrister was famous for battling Brexit. Then he beat a fox to death, while wearing a kimono. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Mr Maugham wants an interdict effectively suspending the deal. Scottish court to review bid to stop Brexit 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Replying to several tweets, Maugham said killing the fox was “not a great deal of fun” and that he didn’t “enjoy killing it.” British lawyer claims he killed fox with baseball bat while wearing wife's kimono, sparks backlash, investigation 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Mr Maugham was involved in the legal fight against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament for five weeks - a move that was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court. Legal bid to stop MPs debating Brexit deal 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

And here is a blog from the Good Law Project, run by Maugham, explaining his case in more detail. Brexit: Boris Johnson claims EU has not explained in detail why it objects to his alternative backstop plan - live news 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Maugham told The Washington Post that he was not commenting to the press but would probably offer a detailed statement later this week. A British barrister was famous for battling Brexit. Then he beat a fox to death, while wearing a kimono. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

It was tweeted by Jo Maugham, a lawyer who successfully brought a challenge in Scotland over the suspension. If he loses court case, UK PM Johnson could suspend parliament... 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s a fight almost to the death between the executive and the legislature,” said Jo Maugham, a lawyer and one of the driving forces in the Scotland case brought by 78 lawmakers. U.K. Supreme Court weighs whether Boris Johnson broke the law in suspending Parliament 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Mr Maugham claims that if the court finds the proposed agreement is unlawful the government would be obliged to request an extension to Brexit negotiations, under the terms of the Benn Act. Legal bid to stop MPs debating Brexit deal 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The lawyer Jolyon Maugham says he does not know what time the Scottish court judgment will be issued. Brexit: Boris Johnson claims EU has not explained in detail why it objects to his alternative backstop plan - live news 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Maugham eventually seemed to accept that he wasn’t going to win the public’s backing on this one. A British barrister was famous for battling Brexit. Then he beat a fox to death, while wearing a kimono. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

The document tweeted by Maugham was their response, he said. If he loses court case, UK PM Johnson could suspend parliament... 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Maugham voiced fears about another possible suspension shortly after Parliament returns on Oct. U.K. Supreme Court weighs whether Boris Johnson broke the law in suspending Parliament 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Jo Maugham, a lawyer involved in the Scottish case, said the government’s appeal would begin next Tuesday. Blow for UK PM Johnson as Scottish court rules suspension of... 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Jolyon Maugham, a lawyer who is part of the claim, said: “We believe that the effect of the decision is that Parliament is no longer prorogued.” UK court rules Johnson’s suspension of Parliament unlawful 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Jo Maugham, a lawyer involved in the Scottish case, said an appeal to the Supreme Court in their challenge would begin on Tuesday. Scottish court rules PM Johnson's decision to suspend parliament is... 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

They are being assisted by Jo Maugham of the Good Law Project, who tweeted that the group "presently plan to seek an interim order to prevent Parliament being suspended". Bid to speed up court case to halt Brexit shutdown 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

In their hunger for expertise, remainists have gravitated towards lawyers, such as David Allen Green and Jolyon Maugham, who have become celebrities in their corner of Twitter. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

The legal bid, led by Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project, will be placed before the court of session in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning. Court hears fresh challenge to Johnson's no-deal Brexit 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

As Mr Maugham says: "These are waters we haven't had to swim in as lawyers for centuries." What is a judicial review and can it stop no deal? 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

Maugham was an acute observer of both people and landscapes and, today, the book reads almost as an elegy for a long-gone culture. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

Despite the islands' history of autonomy, Jolyon Maugham QC, a barrister who has advised both the Labour Party and Conservative government, says the UK does have the right to intervene. Can MPs force laws on the Crown dependencies? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Maugham has given up most of his legal work. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

The hotel, one block east of Hoan Kiem Lake, has suites named after prominent past guests — Charlie Chaplin, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham. After Day of Compliments, Trump and Kim Jong-un Will Negotiate Face to Face 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Somerset Maugham wrote some of his 1935 travelogue, The Gentleman in the Parlour, there, and Charlie Chaplin honeymooned at the hotel with his third wife, Paulette Godard, the following year. Hanoi's Metropole opens its doors to the unquiet American 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

He has always said Florida suited him because “it was a sunny place for shady people,” borrowing a Somerset Maugham line. Opinion | Stone-Cold Loser 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

The Good Law Project, founded by Jolyon Maugham QC, is a campaign group which works to uphold the rule of law. Brexit donation not reported to watchdog 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

When Theresa May called a snap general election in April 2017, “it felt like a particularly bleak moment,” says Jolyon Maugham. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

“That puts the decision about our future back into the hands of our own elected representatives,” said Jo Maugham, one of the lawyers involved in the case. Britain can revoke Brexit unilaterally, EU court adviser says 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Jo Maugham, a lawyer funding the judicial appeal, described the Scottish court’s decision to refer the issue to the European court as an “absolute bombshell” for the government. 'Bombshell'? EU court to hear case on halting Brexit 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

But Jolyon Maugham QC of the Good Law Project, which brought the High Court challenge, said the ruling proved the watchdog "unlawfully tilted the playing field in favour of Leave" in the 2016 referendum. Brexit vote watchdog 'got law wrong' 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

“Everyone talks about the Hemingway thing, but he loves Somerset Maugham,” Salter said. John McCain and the End of Romantic Conservatism 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

In the end, Maugham decided he didn’t have enough time to go ahead with it. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

In 1976, his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later. Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

He thinks “Of Human Bondage” is pretty good, but he has no impulse to put in a call to Maugham. Reading “The Catcher in the Rye” in 1951 1951-08-04T04:00:00Z

But I also remember our capacity to take decent middlebrow novels such as HG Wells’s Ann Veronica or Somerset Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth and turn them into dismal shows full of thumbs-in-waistcoat choreography. Andrew Lloyd Webber at 70: how a ruthless perfectionist became Mr Musical 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

The Good Law Project, run by Jo Maugham QC, is attempting to secure a judicial review of the Commission's decision in the High Court. Watchdog attacked over Vote Leave ruling 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

“We spent our days as if we were Somerset Maugham characters, sunbathing or playing croquet on the manicured lawn,” said a friend of his. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

At Somerset Maugham’s house on the French Riviera, Maugham’s secretary pleaded: “Bruce, do let Willy play with your hair.” ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

Several hours later, prominent barrister Jolyon Maugham added his voice to concerns about the group. Mistrust and anger deepen as Grenfell death toll is still unknown 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Among the books are collections of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene as well as detective fiction. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Among the books are collections of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene novels as well as detective fiction. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Then she won Britain’s Somerset Maugham prize, which stipulated that a writer use the money to travel. New biographies writers who lived outside the lines 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Campaigning lawyer Jo Maugham made the point that much has changed already since the referendum. Nick Clegg tells EU march there is a 'perpetual sense of anger' over Brexit 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

In 1969, Carter received a Somerset Maugham Award, worth five hundred pounds, to be used for foreign travel. Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

LONDON—Jolyon Maugham woke up early the morning after Britain’s European Union referendum and listened to the radio in shock: With most of the votes in, the odds favored leaving. Brexit Disruptors Challenge Government’s Plans in Court 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

In the pages of the Maugham collection, there are letters, written itineraries and plane tickets. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

He would go on to open Ingram’s world with “grown-up books” like W. Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage” and the works of Salinger. Bookseller retires from Prairie Lights 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

“Anyone who says they know what the popular mood is and we should give up is lying to you,” added Maugham. Nick Clegg tells EU march there is a 'perpetual sense of anger' over Brexit 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

Addicted by then, I continued through the centuries to Evelyn Waugh, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and on and on into France and America, Germany and Ireland. A new year that changed me: I gave up weed – and became a book addict instead | Kit de Waal 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

“With a referendum, it’s a one-off event” and there is no chance to vote again, said Mr. Maugham, a tax lawyer in London. Brexit Disruptors Challenge Government’s Plans in Court 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Mr Maugham says he anticipates that UK MEPs will be the plaintiffs in the court action against the Irish government and EU institutions for alleged breaches of Article 50. Funds sought for Brexit court case in Ireland - BBC News 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Somerset Maugham said, “To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” 7 Ways to Improve Your Writing, According to Experts 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

In 1969 she received the Somerset Maugham award for her third novel, Several Perceptions. Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

In 1938, when Maugham wrote about uncertain times, the Nazis were inflicting devastation throughout Europe, and the U.S. was mired in depression. When it Comes to Your Portfolio, Cash Is Not King 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

He is the author of five critically acclaimed books, including What Price Liberty?, which won the Somerset Maugham Award. The Forgotten Material That Changed the World 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

W. Somerset Maugham once described the Côte d’Azur as “a sunny place for shady people,” and Falciani, who was now a fugitive, hunkered down in Castellar. The Great Swiss Bank Heist 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Instances in the lives of Max Beerbohm, the caricaturist and notable man of letters, and W. Somerset Maugham, the novelist, inspired Coward to write “A Song at Twilight” as a starring vehicle for himself. Review: ‘A Song at Twilight’ at Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

"There is no such thing as a good tax haven," Jolyon Maugham, a barrister who specialises in tax, told BBC 5 Live. Panama Papers: How did Panama become a tax haven? - BBC News 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward both wrote about it. The Beau Rivage Palace: Swiss Hotel Hosted Victor Hugo, Coco Chanel, and Negotiations with Iran 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

One quirky factoid is that the writer Somerset Maugham was born in an upstairs room. Scandalous tales from the British embassy in Paris 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

"Many wine producers will be doing a considerable amount of R&D activity so the tax credits are giving them an opportunity to expand their businesses in other areas," Mr Maugham said. Number of UK wine producers grows 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

W. Somerset Maugham refused to work in a room with a view. How to create order like creative people 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

Curran, who has an old-fashioned touch for the intimate adventure, is at his best finding the slower rhythms of exotic locales, like the colonial Far East of his W. Somerset Maugham adaptation, “The Painted Veil.” Review: ‘Tracks’ leaves a mark 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

But our favorite is the stunning Somerset Maugham Suite, named for the Of Human Bondage author. Why You Should Visit Thailand Right Now 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Well-connected Brits like Maugham's parents could have babies delivered at the embassy so as to avoid the dreadful fate of being forcibly made French. Scandalous tales from the British embassy in Paris 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

The first two - William Conrad, and The Malay Spell - were named in deliberate homage to his two literary inspirations: Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. The French spy who wrote Planet of the Apes 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

A few of the authors remain familiar, such as Wodehouse and Somerset Maugham. The Italian town with an English secret 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Despite being revered and celebrated around the world, the name Somerset Maugham is largely greeted with ambivalence in the town he once called home. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z

Barrister and tax expert Jolyon Maugham said this was a "pretty substantial" loss of tax. Ecclestone avoids potential £1bn tax 2014-04-28T00:30:59Z

Somerset Maugham wrote about that in a short story. Schumpeter Got Innovation Wrong, And Other Myth-Busting Ideas From A Nobel Prize Economist 2014-01-20T15:27:00Z

Let us go back to the days even before Maugham had his detective Ashenden looking at the photograph of a dark-skinned male. India Ink: On Being Brown in America 2013-04-25T13:24:27Z

Roy Maugham, tax partner, at accountants UHY Hacker Young, warned that the unification of the corporation tax rate could have implications for small businesses. Budget 2013: 450,000 small firms exempt from national insurance 2013-03-20T20:43:31Z

Maugham was then sent to live with his uncle, the Reverend Henry Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, and his wife. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z

The novelist Somerset Maugham described Monaco as a sunny place for shady people but on Friday, as the rain tumbled, it was a shady place for sunny people. Jenson Button hopes 'geniuses' can solve tyre problem at Monaco GP 2012-05-25T21:30:16Z

Another early English law book was Robert Maugham's "Treatise on the laws of literary property, comprising the statutes and cases; with an historical view and disquisitions," published by Longmans in 1828. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z

Consider, for instance, W. Somerset Maugham’s famous short story from the 1920s about an Englishman, a detective named Ashenden, charged with the responsibility of catching a dark-skinned male named Chandra. India Ink: On Being Brown in America 2013-04-25T13:24:27Z

It is suspenseful, droll and crisply ironic in the manner of W. Somerset Maugham’s short stories about well-bred people who commit unspeakable acts. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Trade-Offs From Page To Stage 2012-03-15T14:25:23Z

His father Robert Ormond Maugham, a solicitor who worked for the embassy, died of cancer three years later. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z

There is the Realistic novel, of which Mr Maugham's "Liza of Lambeth" and Mr Morrison's "A Child of the Jago" may be taken as recent examples. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z

Altogether, after what Mr. Maugham has done to my illusions, I have given up any thought of going to God's Own Country in search of a larger existence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-11T03:03:44.993Z

But theirs was a love story 15 years in the future when Maugham wrote “The Circle.” | Connecticut: In Fine Society, Infidelity and Its Consequences 2011-06-18T01:21:35Z

The book will confirm Mr. Maugham's reputation as a strong and original writer. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z

With French as his first language, Maugham was taunted at King's School in Canterbury for his English and developed a stammer. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z

Nor is it better for us to laugh with Messrs. Barrie and Maugham than to accept the proffered hand, leap out, and walk forward with the preachers. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z

Finally I must compliment Mr. Maugham on his ironical title. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-11T03:03:44.993Z

There were books about, many books; sevenpenny editions of novels that hadn’t fallen quite stillborn from the press, and one or two by Wells and Lawrence and Somerset Maugham. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z

Claire Maugham, Centre for Cities' deputy chief executive, said it was not a surprise to see some of the cities in the top five. Cities report reveals mixed picture of economic recovery 2011-01-24T05:59:01Z

Born William Somerset Maugham at the British Embassy in Paris in January 1874, Maugham's mother Edith died of tuberculosis when he was eight. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z

He had struck me as slightly forlorn, verging on seedy, when I was his patient, like a character out of a W. Somerset Maugham novel. My Life in Therapy 2010-08-06T12:00:00Z

It is easy to sneer at Monaco, so memorably summed up by Somerset Maugham as "a sunny place for shady people". Monaco grand prix: The race where heroes are made 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

"Paying criminals for data stolen from banks is highly questionable," said the firm's tax partner, Roy Maugham. HSBC in huge Swiss data theft 2010-03-11T18:02:00Z

A cigarette, please, waiter—and debit it to the account of my honourable friend Mr Maugham, here. H.M.S. ——

Maugham: plays planned to succeed; lightness and wit; quantity of product; readings from Jack Straw, and Lady Frederick. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women

Mr Maugham is evidently a gentleman very deeply experienced in feminine hearts, and I daresay he knows what he is talking of. Modern marriage and how to bear it

The book will confirm Mr. Maugham’s reputation as a strong and original writer. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778

Her image of the brittle coral branches was a mild personality directed 282 at Maugham’s stutter, which seldom escapes the most sophisticated observer. When Winter Comes to Main Street

Maugham had written a play called "Mrs. Dot," in which Marie Tempest was to appear. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

"I was thinking of Maugham the British Agent, rather than Maugham the novelist, but it's the same man." Revolution

The Marriage of Passion.—One of Mr 58 Somerset Maugham’s characters in The Merry-Go-Round says: ‘I’m convinced that marriage is the most terrible thing in the world, unless passion makes it absolutely inevitable.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it

That, roughly, is Mr. Maugham's idea in Caroline. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916

Which only goes to prove my own opinion that Maugham, as an observer, refuses to have his own vision clogged by prying eyes at himself. When Winter Comes to Main Street

Frohman produced all of Maugham's plays in America, and most of them were great successes. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

Supposedly the Germans were successful, and Maugham failed. Revolution

Although a profound admirer of Mr Maugham’s work, here I find myself entirely at variance with him. Modern marriage and how to bear it

Caroline is learning—is beginning to understand the dark philosophy of Mr. Somerset Maugham. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916

Here is the genesis of Maugham’s first serious work, Liza of Lambeth. When Winter Comes to Main Street

The result was Maugham's play "The Land of Promise," which was really built around Frohman's idea. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

The ideal woman does not require to be "many women" to a man of the right kind in the sense suggested in Mr. Maugham's play. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles

Lady Tree made a beautiful thing of the character of Mrs. Wharton, whose simple unselfishness was the best of all Mr. Maugham's arguments for the defence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920

In this remarkable book Mr. W. Somerset Maugham surpasses by a long distance the average novels of recent appearance. One Hundred Best Books

Yet in writing of Somerset Maugham one must gaze along all lines of vision. When Winter Comes to Main Street

Maugham waxed so prosperous that he was able to buy a charming old residence in Chesterfield Street which he remodeled in elaborate fashion. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

Mr. Somerset Maugham succeeded in shocking Broadway so that the sidewalks were filled with blushing ticket-speculators. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories

I am not convinced that Mr. Maugham's experiment has succeeded. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920

A small, but quite noticeable, example of a scene thus rightly left to the imagination occurred in Mr. Somerset Maugham's first play, A Man of Honour. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship

Mr. Maugham’s father was a comparatively prominent solicitor, responsible for the foundation of the Incorporated Society of Solicitors in England. When Winter Comes to Main Street

When Maugham sent him the invitation it read: Will you come and see the house that Frohman built? Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

The circumstances in which Caroline was written give an interesting reflex on Maugham as an artist. When Winter Comes to Main Street

Tahiti, as a whole, seemed unaware of Maugham’s visit. When Winter Comes to Main Street

I am tempted to, because so many people think of W. Somerset Maugham as the author of The Moon and Sixpence. When Winter Comes to Main Street

Mr. Maugham’s play will be published when it has been produced, or, if the theatre plans suffer one of those changes to which all theatres are subject, will be published anyhow! When Winter Comes to Main Street

At one o'clock in the morning he called up Maugham at his house and accepted the play, which was probably the quickest reading and acceptance on record in England. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

M’sieur Maugham may be regarded as beau, but he is not an elderly waiter of forty-seven, therefore we may not call him a gar�on.’ When Winter Comes to Main Street

The first book launched by Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, could hardly have been, considering its slight dimensions, a clearer indication of the line he was to follow. When Winter Comes to Main Street

Mr. Maugham ... has suffered for the joy of the many who are to read after him. When Winter Comes to Main Street

Knowing Somerset Maugham as a dramatist, the author of that kind of play which never bored one, but rather sent one home suffused with pleasantness, I opened the book with happy anticipation. When Winter Comes to Main Street

Somerset Maugham’s next study in female portraiture showed how far he could travel towards perfection. When Winter Comes to Main Street

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例句	Maugham It's a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn't want to call Somerset Maugham up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z In his small library were works of poetry and philosophy and novels by such writers as Somerset Maugham. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He read newer authors as well, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, all purchased from his favorite stall on College Street with pujo money. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The fridge was just next to the manservant's room in the basement, the door of which was open; Maugham glanced in and saw a naked teenage boy on the bed. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z Maugham’s verdict on Bangkok would make a brutal TripAdvisor review today. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Somerset Maugham, sitting upright on a vast grey couch and looking sideways out of the frame, fares less well under Kar's uncharacteristically stern gaze. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z She served on several literary prize committees including the Somerset Maugham, Whitbread and Booker. Obituary: Elizabeth Jane Howard 2014-01-02T19:26:16Z She should be good value in Philip Wilson's revival of Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, a play that is the epitome of the old-fashioned drawing room comedy. This week's new theatre 2011-02-05T00:05:41Z He had some luck landing acting jobs in commercials and finally won a tiny part on the 1950-51 anthology series “Somerset Maugham TV Theater.” Richard Donner, Director of ‘Superman’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ Films, Dies at 91 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The narrator of the title story, a Montana transplant from Back East, contends that Somerset Maugham, Buster Keaton and the Replacements are “the things that matter.” The Moral of These Stories? ‘You Are Not as Special as You Think’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z That quotation from W. Somerset Maugham is the motto of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band. Dance Review: Carolina Chocolate Drops and Twyla Tharp’s ‘Cornbread Duet’ 2014-04-13T21:17:32Z This entirely bizarre but captivating noir melodrama, which takes place over one Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, is directed by Robert Siodmak and written by Herman Mankiewicz, adapted from the novel by Somerset Maugham. My favourite Christmas film: Christmas Holiday 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Among those who saw the Manet sell for the then huge sum of £65,000 were Kirk Douglas, Somerset Maugham and Margot Fonteyn. Records set at art auctions 2010-06-23T23:01:00Z One character says of another, “He’ll get old quite suddenly and look like Somerset Maugham.” Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Maugham had no reason to go any further, nor did I want him to. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z I read Maugham's story only after seeing the show. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z In Maugham’s “The Moon and Sixpence,” the stockbroker-turned-artist Strickland is posthumously recognized as a genius. Photos, Perhaps, Show a Rare Glimpse of Gauguin in Tahiti 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z In 1959, for a TV movie of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence, he altered the dashing Laurence Olivier into a victim of leprosy. Remembering Dick Smith, the Godfather of Movie Makeup 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Rebecca West on Somerset Maugham: “He couldn’t write for toffee, bless his heart.” Critic?s Notebook: Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths 2010-10-22T23:00:00Z The Servant has its spark in an extraordinary event in Maugham's own life, to be treasured by connoisseurs of British sex and class. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z The storytelling has a choppy rhythm that leaves the impression that the authors are still wrestling with their vision — still searching for a modern entry point into Maugham's century-old world. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z That is the premise of Somerset Maugham's whiplash 1920s comedy, revived by Philip Wilson with an eye and ear for its brittle, sometimes savage wit. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z In 1984, he agreed to do “Ghostbusters” only if the studio paid for him to remake “The Razor’s Edge,” a drama set in World War I and based on W. Somerset Maugham’s book. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z In Maugham's original story, Borneo is described and the miscreant drunk vividly sketched. Smack Family Robinson; Before the Party; A Doll's House – review 2013-04-06T23:05:36Z Predictably, the newspapers at the time called it the "sale of the century", and among those wearing dinner jackets and posh frocks in the audience were Kirk Douglas, Somerset Maugham and Margot Fonteyn. Manet self-portrait fetches record ?22m at Sotheby's auction 2010-06-23T09:35:00Z But the presence of Petronius and Somerset Maugham might catch some readers by surprise. Flash mob 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Freya Stark described him as "a Hellenistic lesser sea-god of a rather low period", Somerset Maugham as "a middle-class gigolo for upper-class women", and Fermor admitted his own occasional "rhinoceros-hide obtuseness". Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z While not in the least like a James Bond thriller, Maugham’s golden-age classic is equally compelling in its own way, just right for late summer escape reading. Review \| ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Feeling the onset of malaria, Maugham checked into the Oriental Hotel, where verandas overlooked the busy waterfront. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Those groaning shelves of research books have earned her a reputation as the go-to designer for period costumes, with revivals of Shaw, Maugham, Williams, O’Neill and Molière taking up a large chunk of her biography. A Lifetime Tony for the Costume Designer Jane Greenwood 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The show, which is having its world premiere here at the Old Globe Theatre, has kept Maugham's title and the basic pressure-cooker story line. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Maugham’s book is about the power of spirituality to heal. Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z If you would write perfectly, Maugham once declared, you should write as clearly, as urbanely as Voltaire, which is just what he himself tries to do. Review \| ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z I studied psychology as an undergrad, enrolled in numerous philosophy courses to satiate my ever-curious soul, read Dostoevsky and Maugham fervently, but I’ve not the least bit of interest in pursuing a career … in anything! How to become a writer? 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z One evening, Maugham went on a date with Mary Soames, the daughter of Winston Churchill. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z Banned in Spain during the Franco era, it won the prestigious Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962 and is regarded as a classic, remaining in print, with several revisions, to this day. Hugh Thomas, Prodigious Author of Spanish History, Dies at 85 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z On land, villas once owned by literary stars like Jules Verne and W. Somerset Maugham are now inhabited by wealthy Arabs and Russians. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Was it Somerset Maugham who once said there was no more reliable pleasure in life than reading the catalogues of secondhand booksellers? Review \| Miss going to the bookstore? Here are some books about books to help get you through. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z No one, however, subjected him to ridicule and humiliation of the kind Somerset Maugham and Aneurin Bevan, the stammering heroes of my childhood, endured. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z Bulgakov’s “The Embroidered Towel” finds an inexperienced doctor unsure if he’s up to the task; the doctor in Maugham’s “Lord Mountdrago” questions his role in the decline of an officious British minister. Perspective \| Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Other famous literary names published in the London version of the Strand included HG Wells, Somerset Maugham, GK Chesterton and PG Wodehouse, who contributed 150 stories over a period of 30 years. Unseen Joseph Heller story out this week 2013-07-22T14:19:31Z Her Mrs. St. Maugham was “at once imperious, funny and spiteful,” Mr. Spencer wrote. Margaret Tyzack, Award-Winning Actress, Dies at 79 2011-06-28T02:45:50Z An early American review of “Chocolat” compared its “intertwined themes of colonialism and forbidden love” to one of Somerset Maugham’s steamy Malaysian melodramas. ‘Chocolat’: What France Knew 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Despite all this personal drama, Maugham never stopped writing and reporting. A year of magical biographies 2010-11-19T22:09:00Z It's set in the 1920s and reads like Somerset Maugham. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z It won the Somerset Maugham award when it was published in 2008. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z As the backdrops for dramas by writers like W. Somerset Maugham and S. N. Behrman, such rooms figured prominently on Broadway during the first half of the 20th century. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z There's a whole sub-category of writers who were shaped by medical studies, from Keats to Somerset Maugham. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z To locate the gay gene in , you have to go back to its source, the 1948 novella written by Robin Maugham, the nephew of W Somerset Maugham. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z It doesn’t get more Somerset Maugham than this. Probably the best bar in the world: readers' travel tips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The colonial-era edifice where Maugham stayed is now called the Author’s Wing. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z While no one denies Maugham’s gifts as a storyteller, his prose has regularly been dismissed as pedestrian. Review \| ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z But once he recovered, Maugham experienced a rush of euphoria at the waterside setting. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z That line, taken almost verbatim from Maugham, prompted a collective nod from the audience. Review: Falling Hard for a Master Manipulator in ‘Of Human Bondage’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z World-premiere musical adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham short story about a woman of ill repute who upends the lives of a missionary and others in 1920s Samoa. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z I also had a brief encounter with Maugham in 1960, recording a radio interview at a literary prize-giving in London, when he began by politely apologising for his stammer. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z For the writer on your list â€” Maugham was one of those people who couldn't not write. A year of magical biographies 2010-11-19T22:09:00Z Parker got what might have been a big break when she was cast as the Machiavellian Mildred in a 1946 remake of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage. Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z I loved the stories in “Ashenden: Or the British Agent” by W. Somerset Maugham. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Joshua Spassky, her third, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2008. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z A production of Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival theatre in 1976 was so successful that it went to the West End, Canada and on tour in Britain. Googie Withers obituary 2011-07-16T09:19:52Z And then we have this, from Somerset Maugham: "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life." Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z Maugham signed up to serve in Switzerland then revolutionary Russia, where he narrowly escaped extermination by the Bolsheviks. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z Eliot was famous, and he was a man, and she turned him, as she did Somerset Maugham and Bertrand Russell, into a leathery old lizard. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z When she received the Somerset Maugham Award, which is to be used for foreign travel, she decided to visit Japan. The unconventional life of Angela Carter — prolific author, reluctant feminist 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z I am on a somewhat leisurely around-the-world journey and would like some suggestions for books with travel and self-discovery as a theme, like “The Razor’s Edge,” by W. Somerset Maugham. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z One day, I happened to notice a collection of W. Somerset Maugham’s stories. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z The film, though unnamed in the novel, is the 1934 production of W. Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage” starring Bette Davis. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Somerset Maugham's seldom-read The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong is a quick, interesting and, above all, sinuously written travelogue of the author's time in the region. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z Maugham pretended he hadn't heard and simply went away without replying. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z For the cold-eyed Maugham, that meeting and its disastrous consequences offered an occasion to attest cynically to human hypocrisy. \| 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z “I’ve always been obsessed with anything French,” Ms. Bryant said, but she struggled with learning the language, instead spending wistful afternoons sitting in the Place des Vosges, reading W. Somerset Maugham and Tennessee Williams. As ‘Mad Men’ Ends, the Woman Behind the Costumes Is Just Getting Started 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z There was a lot of herself invested in Mrs St Maugham - a lack of sentimentality, a great pragmatism, incredible loyalty and a huge heart. Forsyte Saga actress Tyzack dies 2011-06-28T15:04:27Z “To eat well in England, you should have breakfast three times a day,” W. Somerset Maugham once said. T Magazine: Welsh Rarebit Redux 2011-03-23T16:09:23Z A woman he was dating was acting in a stage version of W. Somerset Maugham’s “Home and Beauty,” and he began hanging out at the theater. Hugh O’Brian, square-jawed actor who played Wyatt Earp on TV, dies at 91 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Pearson supplies the character with a Dickensian back story, but Maugham's tale is what is. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z That, along with an overextended final act in which Maugham repeats himself, takes the shine off what is otherwise a shamelessly old-fashioned but entertaining comedy of manners. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z It’s been rumored that Maugham wrote as many as 14 additional stories about Ashenden’s war service, but that Winston Churchill told him they violated the Official Secrets Act. Review \| ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z I had written seven novels including Mr Wroe's Virgins and Island, and had won prizes ranging from the Somerset Maugham award to the Writers Guild best fiction book, but that was no help now. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z A Somerset Maugham story is always a story, not a literary experiment or tendentious social document. Review \| ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z I started reading “Of Human Bondage” by W. Somerset Maugham when I was 26 — about 10 years ago — while on vacation in the Dominican Republic with my then-fiance. From ‘Game of Thrones’ to a Subaru ad, here’s what makes Washington Post readers cry 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The Somerset Maugham award is more refreshing: not only is the list of winners disarmingly freer of the usual suspects, but the comparatively modest prize must be spent on foreign travel. I've got chronic prize fatigue 2010-10-09T10:00:00Z Maugham was a stylistic master at letting his characters tell stories within the story, getting around the problems inherent in a first-person point of view or third-person stream of consciousness narration. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Long overshadowed by William Wyler’s 1940 remake starring Bette Davis, the first filming, from 1929, of W. Somerset Maugham’s stage play “The Letter” has re-emerged, thanks to a new DVD edition from Warner Archive. Video: A Tragic Actress?s Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming 2011-07-17T01:23:02Z “In the Castle of My Skin” was a critical success, winning the Somerset Maugham Award and earning Mr. Lamming a Guggenheim fellowship. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z It was accepted, and it went on to win the Somerset Maugham prize. A life in writing: Tim Parks 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z The countryside, the landscape of thick river and dense forest that is commemorated in the fiction of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, still feels close. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z Plenty of authors suffer a precipitous decline after they die, of course: Somerset Maugham was once ubiquitous; now he isn't. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z But which director initially bought the rights to Robin Maugham’s novella and commissioned a script from Pinter? Harold Pinter, by Michael Billington ? quiz 2011-08-04T15:56:00Z But at its core, Maugham’s story is a call for compassion for ourselves, and a plea for forgiveness for the mistakes of our youth. Review: Falling Hard for a Master Manipulator in ‘Of Human Bondage’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife is revived at Salisbury Playhouse by Philip Wilson, a director with a knack for mining beneath the surface. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-01-28T16:50:48Z Monaco is known, of course, as one of Europe’s most gossipy playpens for the rich and a tax haven for the yachting class — a “sunny place for shady people,” as Somerset Maugham famously put it. Prince Albert II of Monaco Charges Forth as Eco-Warrior 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Her life changed when she went to live in Tokyo for two years on prize money from a Somerset Maugham Award. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The novel’s electric prose established Mr. Amis as an important young English writer and won the Somerset Maugham Award for writers under 30. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z At age 15, I thought W. Somerset Maugham was the most phenomenal writer who ever lived. Sloane Crosley: By the Book 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But neither Maugham nor Ackland is interested in criminal psychology, offering only alcoholism as explanation. Smack Family Robinson; Before the Party; A Doll's House – review 2013-04-06T23:05:36Z Maugham’s relationship with Searle had already shocked society when the writer tried to legally adopt his much younger lover and disinherit his daughter, Liza. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z One of my first ideas was to read “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, alongside “Mr. Know-All” by W. Somerset Maugham. Works of Fiction That Are Best Read Together 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z And now here we have it, elegantly related by Selina Hastings, the author of finely wrought, literate biographies of Somerset Maugham, Nancy Mitford and Waugh himself. A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z God knows what Maugham would say about that. Why books need literary prizes 2013-01-29T07:00:00Z And they stay in and read a lot: recent recommendations to each other include David Foster Wallace and Somerset Maugham. Keira Knightley: ‘I used to try to be sensible and good and professional’ 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet it was as a novelist that he first gained notice, with “This Sporting Life,” published in 1960, which won the Somerset Maugham Fiction Award. David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z At first the novel struck me as a kind of sibling to W. Somerset Maugham’s “Razor’s Edge,” or “The Moon and Sixpence,” novels whose narrators are only ancillary characters in the tales they deliver. ‘In a World That Shouts, This Book Is a Song Played Softly,’ Ethan Hawke Writes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Maugham's book is far more candid about the homosexual act. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z When Tynan read it, he remarked that he couldn't understand how Somerset Maugham, who'd died the previous year at the age of 91, could have become a millionaire and still stammered. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z Reading his books has led me to admire Somerset Maugham, whom I was too snobbish to look at when I was young. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Not that you get the impression Maugham really likes the calculating Constance – or indeed any of the other women – very much. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z I had read so little that I didn't know how to … I would look at that experience and try to Joseph Conrad-ise it; or Somerset Maugham it. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z And Maugham’s cosmopolitan sensibility, his feel for the personal and social dramas provoked by clashing cultures. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Our oldest extant awards – the James Tait Black; the Somerset Maugham – don't have the selling power of the Pulitzer or the Goncourt. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z Her third novel, The Distance Between Us, won the Somerset Maugham award and most recently The Hand That First Held Mine was awarded the 2010 Costa novel prize. Live webchat: Maggie O'Farrell 2011-08-16T09:38:00Z New Yorkers that fall enjoyed a new play by W. Somerset Maugham and a new novel by P. G. Wodehouse. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Maugham’s particular strength as a writer lies in his establishment of a close intimacy between his viewpoint character — typically a version of himself — and the reader. Review \| ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z A latecomer to English – he only mastered it in his 20s – Conrad reads like he taught Greene and Maugham how to write. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z Maugham's play begins as smart Wildean comedy and turns into a Shavian expose of the economic position of woman within marriage. The Constant Wife ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:18Z Somerset Maugham, in Points of View, writes that Henry James never knew how ordinary people behaved. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z Supreme Court to intervene, if it felt Scotland had overreached, said Maugham, the lawyer. What U.K. veto of Scottish gender bill means for secession, LGBT rights 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z "How many times do corporates need to give money to Tory MPs after getting help winning vast public contracts before concluding we have a cash for contracts problem," the Project's executive director Jolyon Maugham said. Ex-minister Liam Fox gets donation from Covid test firm he recommended 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Maugham said the government hadn’t done everything perfectly but had done a good job overall. Anti-mandate protesters converge on New Zealand Parliament 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Mr Maugham said his group intended to take the case to the Supreme Court. Covid contract to Dominic Cummings friends ruled lawful by Appeal Court 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z After the ruling Jolyon Maugham, the founder of the Good Law Project, said "never again should any government treat a public health crisis as an opportunity to enrich its associates and donors at public expense". UK acted unlawfully with 'VIP' COVID contract lane, court rules 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z "Government has to tell us what happened, because otherwise we can't know," Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, said. PPE for health service that cost taxpayer £1k sold on for £5 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The director of the Good Law Project, barrister Jolyon Maugham, called the government's replacement amendment a "cruel trick on those of us who want to be able safely to swim in our rivers and beaches". Campaigners want tougher action from MPs on sewage 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z The only way to restore trust, Mr. Maugham said, was to recognize systemic police problems through a public inquiry and the government’s handling of broader failings within the system — and its response to such violence. London Police, Under Fire on Everard Murder, Respond With Safety Tips 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z After Tuesday’s ruling, Jolyon Maugham, founder of the Good Law Project, said the government should look into proposals to improve procurement and stop wasting taxpayers’ money. UK acted unlawfully over contract linked to PM's ex-aide, court rules 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z “This is not government for the public good. It is government for the good of friends of the Conservative Party,” Good Law Project director Jo Maugham said. UK court rules government acted unlawfully in contract award 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z A picture of the essay hanging on a hallway wall at Maugham Elementary School was posted on Facebook Sunday evening. Fifth-grader’s first-person Hitler essay listing ‘accomplishments’ taken out of context, school says 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Jo Maugham, a tax QC and the founder of the campaigning group the Good Law Project, said the number of companies File on 4 discovered were set up in this way was "staggering". Mini umbrella firms costing UK taxpayer millions 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Jolyon Maugham, the executive director of the Good Law Project, a governance watchdog, said people had lost trust in the police and the criminal justice system. London Police, Under Fire on Everard Murder, Respond With Safety Tips 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s a maxim that has been kicked around for years, but may have been best said by the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. The Bills Won the Stefon Diggs Trade. Right? 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The letter was sent by the food charity Sustain and the Good Law Centre, led by the campaigning lawyer Jolyon Maugham. Court action threatened over school meal vouchers 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Mr Maugham said he "welcomed" the RSPCA's decision not to bring charges against him and said there was "competing" advice on how to act in such situations. Lawyer will not be charged for killing fox - RSPCA 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z “Wasn’t a great deal of fun. Got caught up in the protective netting around the chickens and I wasn’t sure what else to do. Not looking forward to untangling it,” Maugham wrote. A British barrister was famous for battling Brexit. Then he beat a fox to death, while wearing a kimono. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “Now that I’ve grown old, I realize that for most of us it is not enough to have achieved personal success,” Maugham said. The Bills Won the Stefon Diggs Trade. Right? 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Giving further details, Maugham said he was nursing a hangover and wearing his wife’s “too small green kimono” when the fox got into his backyard and threatened chickens he keeps. British lawyer claims he killed fox with baseball bat while wearing wife's kimono, sparks backlash, investigation 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The campaigners, led by barrister Jo Maugham QC, argued that the deal contravened legislation preventing Northern Ireland forming part of a separate customs territory to Great Britain. Tariffs on 'most' GB to NI goods under Brexit deal 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z “We will review this decision carefully but my instinct is that we are unlikely to proceed to a full hearing ..,” said lawyer Jolyon Maugham who brought the case. Scottish court rejects bid to declare Johnson's Brexit deal unlawful 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “Not sure guns are a great idea in Central London,” Maugham answered. A British barrister was famous for battling Brexit. Then he beat a fox to death, while wearing a kimono. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Mr Maugham wants an interdict effectively suspending the deal. Scottish court to review bid to stop Brexit 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Replying to several tweets, Maugham said killing the fox was “not a great deal of fun” and that he didn’t “enjoy killing it.” British lawyer claims he killed fox with baseball bat while wearing wife's kimono, sparks backlash, investigation 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Mr Maugham was involved in the legal fight against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament for five weeks - a move that was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court. Legal bid to stop MPs debating Brexit deal 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z And here is a blog from the Good Law Project, run by Maugham, explaining his case in more detail. Brexit: Boris Johnson claims EU has not explained in detail why it objects to his alternative backstop plan - live news 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Maugham told The Washington Post that he was not commenting to the press but would probably offer a detailed statement later this week. A British barrister was famous for battling Brexit. Then he beat a fox to death, while wearing a kimono. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z It was tweeted by Jo Maugham, a lawyer who successfully brought a challenge in Scotland over the suspension. If he loses court case, UK PM Johnson could suspend parliament... 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “It’s a fight almost to the death between the executive and the legislature,” said Jo Maugham, a lawyer and one of the driving forces in the Scotland case brought by 78 lawmakers. U.K. Supreme Court weighs whether Boris Johnson broke the law in suspending Parliament 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr Maugham claims that if the court finds the proposed agreement is unlawful the government would be obliged to request an extension to Brexit negotiations, under the terms of the Benn Act. Legal bid to stop MPs debating Brexit deal 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The lawyer Jolyon Maugham says he does not know what time the Scottish court judgment will be issued. Brexit: Boris Johnson claims EU has not explained in detail why it objects to his alternative backstop plan - live news 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Maugham eventually seemed to accept that he wasn’t going to win the public’s backing on this one. A British barrister was famous for battling Brexit. Then he beat a fox to death, while wearing a kimono. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The document tweeted by Maugham was their response, he said. If he loses court case, UK PM Johnson could suspend parliament... 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Maugham voiced fears about another possible suspension shortly after Parliament returns on Oct. U.K. Supreme Court weighs whether Boris Johnson broke the law in suspending Parliament 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Jo Maugham, a lawyer involved in the Scottish case, said the government’s appeal would begin next Tuesday. Blow for UK PM Johnson as Scottish court rules suspension of... 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Jolyon Maugham, a lawyer who is part of the claim, said: “We believe that the effect of the decision is that Parliament is no longer prorogued.” UK court rules Johnson’s suspension of Parliament unlawful 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Jo Maugham, a lawyer involved in the Scottish case, said an appeal to the Supreme Court in their challenge would begin on Tuesday. Scottish court rules PM Johnson's decision to suspend parliament is... 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z They are being assisted by Jo Maugham of the Good Law Project, who tweeted that the group "presently plan to seek an interim order to prevent Parliament being suspended". Bid to speed up court case to halt Brexit shutdown 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In their hunger for expertise, remainists have gravitated towards lawyers, such as David Allen Green and Jolyon Maugham, who have become celebrities in their corner of Twitter. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The legal bid, led by Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project, will be placed before the court of session in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning. Court hears fresh challenge to Johnson's no-deal Brexit 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z As Mr Maugham says: "These are waters we haven't had to swim in as lawyers for centuries." What is a judicial review and can it stop no deal? 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Maugham was an acute observer of both people and landscapes and, today, the book reads almost as an elegy for a long-gone culture. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Despite the islands' history of autonomy, Jolyon Maugham QC, a barrister who has advised both the Labour Party and Conservative government, says the UK does have the right to intervene. Can MPs force laws on the Crown dependencies? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Maugham has given up most of his legal work. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The hotel, one block east of Hoan Kiem Lake, has suites named after prominent past guests — Charlie Chaplin, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham. After Day of Compliments, Trump and Kim Jong-un Will Negotiate Face to Face 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Somerset Maugham wrote some of his 1935 travelogue, The Gentleman in the Parlour, there, and Charlie Chaplin honeymooned at the hotel with his third wife, Paulette Godard, the following year. Hanoi's Metropole opens its doors to the unquiet American 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z He has always said Florida suited him because “it was a sunny place for shady people,” borrowing a Somerset Maugham line. Opinion \| Stone-Cold Loser 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The Good Law Project, founded by Jolyon Maugham QC, is a campaign group which works to uphold the rule of law. Brexit donation not reported to watchdog 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z When Theresa May called a snap general election in April 2017, “it felt like a particularly bleak moment,” says Jolyon Maugham. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z “That puts the decision about our future back into the hands of our own elected representatives,” said Jo Maugham, one of the lawyers involved in the case. Britain can revoke Brexit unilaterally, EU court adviser says 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Jo Maugham, a lawyer funding the judicial appeal, described the Scottish court’s decision to refer the issue to the European court as an “absolute bombshell” for the government. 'Bombshell'? EU court to hear case on halting Brexit 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z But Jolyon Maugham QC of the Good Law Project, which brought the High Court challenge, said the ruling proved the watchdog "unlawfully tilted the playing field in favour of Leave" in the 2016 referendum. Brexit vote watchdog 'got law wrong' 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z “Everyone talks about the Hemingway thing, but he loves Somerset Maugham,” Salter said. John McCain and the End of Romantic Conservatism 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z In the end, Maugham decided he didn’t have enough time to go ahead with it. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z In 1976, his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later. Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z He thinks “Of Human Bondage” is pretty good, but he has no impulse to put in a call to Maugham. Reading “The Catcher in the Rye” in 1951 1951-08-04T04:00:00Z But I also remember our capacity to take decent middlebrow novels such as HG Wells’s Ann Veronica or Somerset Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth and turn them into dismal shows full of thumbs-in-waistcoat choreography. Andrew Lloyd Webber at 70: how a ruthless perfectionist became Mr Musical 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The Good Law Project, run by Jo Maugham QC, is attempting to secure a judicial review of the Commission's decision in the High Court. Watchdog attacked over Vote Leave ruling 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “We spent our days as if we were Somerset Maugham characters, sunbathing or playing croquet on the manicured lawn,” said a friend of his. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z At Somerset Maugham’s house on the French Riviera, Maugham’s secretary pleaded: “Bruce, do let Willy play with your hair.” ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Several hours later, prominent barrister Jolyon Maugham added his voice to concerns about the group. Mistrust and anger deepen as Grenfell death toll is still unknown 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Among the books are collections of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene as well as detective fiction. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Among the books are collections of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene novels as well as detective fiction. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Then she won Britain’s Somerset Maugham prize, which stipulated that a writer use the money to travel. New biographies writers who lived outside the lines 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Campaigning lawyer Jo Maugham made the point that much has changed already since the referendum. Nick Clegg tells EU march there is a 'perpetual sense of anger' over Brexit 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z In 1969, Carter received a Somerset Maugham Award, worth five hundred pounds, to be used for foreign travel. Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z LONDON—Jolyon Maugham woke up early the morning after Britain’s European Union referendum and listened to the radio in shock: With most of the votes in, the odds favored leaving. Brexit Disruptors Challenge Government’s Plans in Court 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z In the pages of the Maugham collection, there are letters, written itineraries and plane tickets. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z He would go on to open Ingram’s world with “grown-up books” like W. Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage” and the works of Salinger. Bookseller retires from Prairie Lights 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z “Anyone who says they know what the popular mood is and we should give up is lying to you,” added Maugham. Nick Clegg tells EU march there is a 'perpetual sense of anger' over Brexit 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Addicted by then, I continued through the centuries to Evelyn Waugh, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and on and on into France and America, Germany and Ireland. A new year that changed me: I gave up weed – and became a book addict instead \| Kit de Waal 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z “With a referendum, it’s a one-off event” and there is no chance to vote again, said Mr. Maugham, a tax lawyer in London. Brexit Disruptors Challenge Government’s Plans in Court 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr Maugham says he anticipates that UK MEPs will be the plaintiffs in the court action against the Irish government and EU institutions for alleged breaches of Article 50. Funds sought for Brexit court case in Ireland - BBC News 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Somerset Maugham said, “To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” 7 Ways to Improve Your Writing, According to Experts 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z In 1969 she received the Somerset Maugham award for her third novel, Several Perceptions. Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z In 1938, when Maugham wrote about uncertain times, the Nazis were inflicting devastation throughout Europe, and the U.S. was mired in depression. When it Comes to Your Portfolio, Cash Is Not King 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z He is the author of five critically acclaimed books, including What Price Liberty?, which won the Somerset Maugham Award. The Forgotten Material That Changed the World 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z W. Somerset Maugham once described the Côte d’Azur as “a sunny place for shady people,” and Falciani, who was now a fugitive, hunkered down in Castellar. The Great Swiss Bank Heist 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Instances in the lives of Max Beerbohm, the caricaturist and notable man of letters, and W. Somerset Maugham, the novelist, inspired Coward to write “A Song at Twilight” as a starring vehicle for himself. Review: ‘A Song at Twilight’ at Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z "There is no such thing as a good tax haven," Jolyon Maugham, a barrister who specialises in tax, told BBC 5 Live. Panama Papers: How did Panama become a tax haven? - BBC News 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward both wrote about it. The Beau Rivage Palace: Swiss Hotel Hosted Victor Hugo, Coco Chanel, and Negotiations with Iran 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z One quirky factoid is that the writer Somerset Maugham was born in an upstairs room. Scandalous tales from the British embassy in Paris 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z "Many wine producers will be doing a considerable amount of R&D activity so the tax credits are giving them an opportunity to expand their businesses in other areas," Mr Maugham said. Number of UK wine producers grows 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z W. Somerset Maugham refused to work in a room with a view. How to create order like creative people 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Curran, who has an old-fashioned touch for the intimate adventure, is at his best finding the slower rhythms of exotic locales, like the colonial Far East of his W. Somerset Maugham adaptation, “The Painted Veil.” Review: ‘Tracks’ leaves a mark 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z But our favorite is the stunning Somerset Maugham Suite, named for the Of Human Bondage author. Why You Should Visit Thailand Right Now 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Well-connected Brits like Maugham's parents could have babies delivered at the embassy so as to avoid the dreadful fate of being forcibly made French. Scandalous tales from the British embassy in Paris 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The first two - William Conrad, and The Malay Spell - were named in deliberate homage to his two literary inspirations: Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. The French spy who wrote Planet of the Apes 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z A few of the authors remain familiar, such as Wodehouse and Somerset Maugham. The Italian town with an English secret 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Despite being revered and celebrated around the world, the name Somerset Maugham is largely greeted with ambivalence in the town he once called home. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z Barrister and tax expert Jolyon Maugham said this was a "pretty substantial" loss of tax. Ecclestone avoids potential £1bn tax 2014-04-28T00:30:59Z Somerset Maugham wrote about that in a short story. Schumpeter Got Innovation Wrong, And Other Myth-Busting Ideas From A Nobel Prize Economist 2014-01-20T15:27:00Z Let us go back to the days even before Maugham had his detective Ashenden looking at the photograph of a dark-skinned male. India Ink: On Being Brown in America 2013-04-25T13:24:27Z Roy Maugham, tax partner, at accountants UHY Hacker Young, warned that the unification of the corporation tax rate could have implications for small businesses. Budget 2013: 450,000 small firms exempt from national insurance 2013-03-20T20:43:31Z Maugham was then sent to live with his uncle, the Reverend Henry Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, and his wife. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z The novelist Somerset Maugham described Monaco as a sunny place for shady people but on Friday, as the rain tumbled, it was a shady place for sunny people. Jenson Button hopes 'geniuses' can solve tyre problem at Monaco GP 2012-05-25T21:30:16Z Another early English law book was Robert Maugham's "Treatise on the laws of literary property, comprising the statutes and cases; with an historical view and disquisitions," published by Longmans in 1828. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z Consider, for instance, W. Somerset Maugham’s famous short story from the 1920s about an Englishman, a detective named Ashenden, charged with the responsibility of catching a dark-skinned male named Chandra. India Ink: On Being Brown in America 2013-04-25T13:24:27Z It is suspenseful, droll and crisply ironic in the manner of W. Somerset Maugham’s short stories about well-bred people who commit unspeakable acts. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Trade-Offs From Page To Stage 2012-03-15T14:25:23Z His father Robert Ormond Maugham, a solicitor who worked for the embassy, died of cancer three years later. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z There is the Realistic novel, of which Mr Maugham's "Liza of Lambeth" and Mr Morrison's "A Child of the Jago" may be taken as recent examples. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z Altogether, after what Mr. Maugham has done to my illusions, I have given up any thought of going to God's Own Country in search of a larger existence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-11T03:03:44.993Z But theirs was a love story 15 years in the future when Maugham wrote “The Circle.” \| Connecticut: In Fine Society, Infidelity and Its Consequences 2011-06-18T01:21:35Z The book will confirm Mr. Maugham's reputation as a strong and original writer. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z With French as his first language, Maugham was taunted at King's School in Canterbury for his English and developed a stammer. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z Nor is it better for us to laugh with Messrs. Barrie and Maugham than to accept the proffered hand, leap out, and walk forward with the preachers. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Finally I must compliment Mr. Maugham on his ironical title. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-11T03:03:44.993Z There were books about, many books; sevenpenny editions of novels that hadn’t fallen quite stillborn from the press, and one or two by Wells and Lawrence and Somerset Maugham. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Claire Maugham, Centre for Cities' deputy chief executive, said it was not a surprise to see some of the cities in the top five. Cities report reveals mixed picture of economic recovery 2011-01-24T05:59:01Z Born William Somerset Maugham at the British Embassy in Paris in January 1874, Maugham's mother Edith died of tuberculosis when he was eight. Town's 'forgotten son' remembered 2014-05-08T04:38:56Z He had struck me as slightly forlorn, verging on seedy, when I was his patient, like a character out of a W. Somerset Maugham novel. My Life in Therapy 2010-08-06T12:00:00Z It is easy to sneer at Monaco, so memorably summed up by Somerset Maugham as "a sunny place for shady people". Monaco grand prix: The race where heroes are made 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z "Paying criminals for data stolen from banks is highly questionable," said the firm's tax partner, Roy Maugham. HSBC in huge Swiss data theft 2010-03-11T18:02:00Z A cigarette, please, waiter—and debit it to the account of my honourable friend Mr Maugham, here. H.M.S. —— Maugham: plays planned to succeed; lightness and wit; quantity of product; readings from Jack Straw, and Lady Frederick. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Mr Maugham is evidently a gentleman very deeply experienced in feminine hearts, and I daresay he knows what he is talking of. Modern marriage and how to bear it The book will confirm Mr. Maugham’s reputation as a strong and original writer. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 Her image of the brittle coral branches was a mild personality directed 282 at Maugham’s stutter, which seldom escapes the most sophisticated observer. When Winter Comes to Main Street Maugham had written a play called "Mrs. Dot," in which Marie Tempest was to appear. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man "I was thinking of Maugham the British Agent, rather than Maugham the novelist, but it's the same man." Revolution The Marriage of Passion.—One of Mr 58 Somerset Maugham’s characters in The Merry-Go-Round says: ‘I’m convinced that marriage is the most terrible thing in the world, unless passion makes it absolutely inevitable.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it That, roughly, is Mr. Maugham's idea in Caroline. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 Which only goes to prove my own opinion that Maugham, as an observer, refuses to have his own vision clogged by prying eyes at himself. When Winter Comes to Main Street Frohman produced all of Maugham's plays in America, and most of them were great successes. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Supposedly the Germans were successful, and Maugham failed. Revolution Although a profound admirer of Mr Maugham’s work, here I find myself entirely at variance with him. Modern marriage and how to bear it Caroline is learning—is beginning to understand the dark philosophy of Mr. Somerset Maugham. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 Here is the genesis of Maugham’s first serious work, Liza of Lambeth. When Winter Comes to Main Street The result was Maugham's play "The Land of Promise," which was really built around Frohman's idea. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The ideal woman does not require to be "many women" to a man of the right kind in the sense suggested in Mr. Maugham's play. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Lady Tree made a beautiful thing of the character of Mrs. Wharton, whose simple unselfishness was the best of all Mr. Maugham's arguments for the defence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 In this remarkable book Mr. W. Somerset Maugham surpasses by a long distance the average novels of recent appearance. One Hundred Best Books Yet in writing of Somerset Maugham one must gaze along all lines of vision. When Winter Comes to Main Street Maugham waxed so prosperous that he was able to buy a charming old residence in Chesterfield Street which he remodeled in elaborate fashion. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Mr. Somerset Maugham succeeded in shocking Broadway so that the sidewalks were filled with blushing ticket-speculators. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories I am not convinced that Mr. Maugham's experiment has succeeded. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 A small, but quite noticeable, example of a scene thus rightly left to the imagination occurred in Mr. Somerset Maugham's first play, A Man of Honour. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Mr. Maugham’s father was a comparatively prominent solicitor, responsible for the foundation of the Incorporated Society of Solicitors in England. When Winter Comes to Main Street When Maugham sent him the invitation it read: Will you come and see the house that Frohman built? Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The circumstances in which Caroline was written give an interesting reflex on Maugham as an artist. When Winter Comes to Main Street Tahiti, as a whole, seemed unaware of Maugham’s visit. When Winter Comes to Main Street I am tempted to, because so many people think of W. Somerset Maugham as the author of The Moon and Sixpence. When Winter Comes to Main Street Mr. Maugham’s play will be published when it has been produced, or, if the theatre plans suffer one of those changes to which all theatres are subject, will be published anyhow! When Winter Comes to Main Street At one o'clock in the morning he called up Maugham at his house and accepted the play, which was probably the quickest reading and acceptance on record in England. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man M’sieur Maugham may be regarded as beau, but he is not an elderly waiter of forty-seven, therefore we may not call him a gar�on.’ When Winter Comes to Main Street The first book launched by Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, could hardly have been, considering its slight dimensions, a clearer indication of the line he was to follow. When Winter Comes to Main Street Mr. Maugham ... has suffered for the joy of the many who are to read after him. When Winter Comes to Main Street Knowing Somerset Maugham as a dramatist, the author of that kind of play which never bored one, but rather sent one home suffused with pleasantness, I opened the book with happy anticipation. When Winter Comes to Main Street Somerset Maugham’s next study in female portraiture showed how far he could travel towards perfection. When Winter Comes to Main Street
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