Maugham

[ mawm ]

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noun

W(illiam) Som·er·set

[suhm-er-set, -sit], /ˈsʌm ərˌsɛt, -sɪt/, 1874–1965, English novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer.

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Mauchly, maud, maudlin, Maudslay, mauger, Maugham, maugre, Maui, mauka, maul, Maulana

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How to use Maugham in a sentence

Bedford’s “A Visit to Don Otavio,” Maugham’s collected short stories, Waugh’s “Decline and Fall”— these one can read, as Chatwin says of the first, again and again and again.
‘Sybille Bedford’ is a gossipy appreciation of an oft-overlooked literary great|Michael Dirda|February 17, 2021|Washington Post
A new biography of famed British author Somerset Maugham explores his complicated love life and defends his literary genius.
Maugham's Love Life|Brad Gooch|June 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Maugham once confided to Christopher Isherwood his unrealized wish, when he turned seventy, to return to India and study Shankara.
Maugham's Love Life|Brad Gooch|June 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He loved Cadburys chocolate, Somerset Maugham stories, and English movies.
Karzai’s Paranoid World|Christina Lamb|November 18, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Somerset Maugham is one of those authors now more read about than read.
The Best of Brit Lit|Peter Stothard|October 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Yet in writing of Somerset Maugham one must gaze along all lines of vision.
When Winter Comes to Main Street|Grant Martin Overton
The circumstances in which Caroline was written give an interesting reflex on Maugham as an artist.
When Winter Comes to Main Street|Grant Martin Overton
This delicious comedy was put on paper 290 while Maugham was acting as British agent in Switzerland during the war.
When Winter Comes to Main Street|Grant Martin Overton
I am not convinced that Mr. Maugham's experiment has succeeded.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920|Various
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|Maud Churton Braby

British Dictionary definitions for Maugham

Maugham

/ (ˈmɔːm) /

noun

W (illiam) Somerset. 1874–1965, English writer. His works include the novels Of Human Bondage (1915) and Cakes and Ale (1930), short stories, and comedies

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