Maugham

[ mawm ]

noun

1. W(illiam) Som·er·set [suhm, -er-set, -sit], 1874–1965, English novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer.

Maugham

/ ˈmɔːm /

noun

1. MaughamW(illiam) Somerset18741965MEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writerTHEATRE: dramatist 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

Example Sentences

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.

From Washington Post

A new biography of famed British author Somerset Maugham explores his complicated love life and defends his literary genius.

From The Daily Beast

Maugham once confided to Christopher Isherwood his unrealized wish, when he turned seventy, to return to India and study Shankara.

From The Daily Beast

He loved Cadburys chocolate, Somerset Maugham stories, and English movies.

From The Daily Beast

Somerset Maugham is one of those authors now more read about than read.

From The Daily Beast

Yet in writing of Somerset Maugham one must gaze along all lines of vision.

From Project Gutenberg

The circumstances in which Caroline was written give an interesting reflex on Maugham as an artist.

From Project Gutenberg

This delicious comedy was put on paper 290 while Maugham was acting as British agent in Switzerland during the war.

From Project Gutenberg

I am not convinced that Mr. Maugham's experiment has succeeded.

From Project Gutenberg

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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