W. Somerset Maugham — A Life: Vol I

From 1874–1945

Maugham led several different lives, not all of them in the glare of publicity, with many in the darkness of the cloak and dagger…”

Maugham by Karsh

Part I — Novelist, Playwright, Doctor, and Spy

W. Somerset Maugham is best known these days as a novelist, in fact his novels grow in popularity day by day, with such writers…