W. Somerset Maugham

One of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage, gives a harrowing depiction of unrequited love....

A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw....

Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire....

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters....

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume One is the first instalment in our classics collection focusing on the most important and iconic novels, stories, and poems of the 20th century.

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

Based on the life of Postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence builds on a long tradition of European writing about the South Pacific as an exotic locale....

The Classic Crime Collection is a collection of 12 classic detective novels, read by an esteemed cast of award-winning narrators.

Somerset Maugham is one of the best-loved short story writers of the last 100 years....

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play....

Set in the bohemian café society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century....

When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy....

The Painted Veil is the story of Kitty Garstin, a young woman living a high social life, who marries Walter Fane, a man that’s declared his love for Kitty, just to avoid being upstaged by her younger and less attractive sister getting married first....

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter....

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

Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England.....

At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a cheerful disposition....

"Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of… romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you…Escape"....

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river....