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Article History. The Razor’s Edge, philosophical novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1944. The novel is concerned in large part with the search for the meaning of life and with the dichotomy between materialism and spirituality. Set in Chicago, Paris, and India in the 1920s and ’30s, it involves characters from sharply different worlds.
Search for: 'W. Somerset Maugham' in Oxford Reference ». (1874–1965)British novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was made a CH in 1954.Maugham was born in Paris, where his father was legal adviser to the British embassy, and he spent his childhood in France, speaking French as his first language. When his parents died he was sent ...
W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists, and politicians. He died in 1965.
威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆, CH （英語： William Somerset Maugham ， IPA ： / mɔːm / ，1874年1月25日—1965年12月16日）， 英国 現代 小說家 、 劇作家 。. 他是那个时代最受欢迎的作家之一，据说是20世纪30年代收入最高的作家。. 毛姆的父母在他10岁之前就去世了，他由一个 ...
W. Somerset Maugham. Writer: Quartet. Popular British novelist, playwright, short-story writer and the highest-paid author in the world in the 1930s, Somerset Maugham graduated in 1897 from St. Thomas' Medical School and qualified as a doctor, but abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and plays.
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography; though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention." [1] Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel ...
Theatrical Companion to Maugham: A Pictorial Record of the First Performance of the Plays of Maugham by Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, 1955; A Bibliography of the Works of Maugham by Raymond Toole Scott, 1956, revised edition, 1973; Maugham: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings about Him by Charles Saunders, 1970; W. Somerset Maugham: An ...
