Maugham [ mawm ] SHOW IPA
/ mɔm / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
W(illiam) Som·er·set [suhm -er-set, -sit], /ˈsʌm ərˌsɛt, -sɪt/, English novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer.
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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.
A new biography of famed British author Somerset Maugham explores his complicated love life and defends his literary genius.
Maugham once confided to Christopher Isherwood his unrealized wish, when he turned seventy, to return to India and study Shankara.
He loved Cadburys chocolate, Somerset Maugham stories, and English movies.
Somerset Maugham is one of those authors now more read about than read.
Yet in writing of Somerset Maugham one must gaze along all lines of vision.
The circumstances in which Caroline was written give an interesting reflex on Maugham as an artist.
This delicious comedy was put on paper 290 while Maugham was acting as British agent in Switzerland during the war.
I am not convinced that Mr. Maugham 's experiment has succeeded.
Mr Maugham is evidently a gentleman very deeply experienced in feminine hearts, and I daresay he knows what he is talking of.
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British Dictionary definitions for Maugham
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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