A story from the author’s collection “Toys of Fate” (Creatures of Circumstance, 1947).

A story from the author’s collection “According to the same recipe” (The Mixture As Before, 1940).

Attention! The book is not scanned, but collected from electronic publications! Elegant, witty stories and anecdotes. The heroes are the inhabitants of the h...

William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) is one of the most insightful writers in English literature of the 20th century. He is called the “English Maupassant”. ...

The Conqueror of Africa, a novel written by Somerset Maugham in 1907 and published for the first time in Russian, is one of the key works of the writer’s ear...

Nice spring day, getting ready for evening tea. It seems that nothing foreshadowed such a bloody story... The novel is full of deep thoughts about life, love...

The multifaceted artistic talent of Maugham, a brilliant storyteller and virtuoso stylist, was fully demonstrated in his critical works. The best of them - a...

The multifaceted artistic talent of Maugham, a brilliant storyteller and virtuoso stylist, was fully demonstrated in his critical works. Maugham never claime...

Somerset Maugham's "Hawaiian" stories. Bitter and brilliantly written stories of tragedies in a tropical paradise - and witty and elegant "anecdotal stories"...

"Theater" (1937) Somerset Maugham's most famous novel. The subtle, caustic and ironic story of a brilliant, intelligent actress who celebrates her "midlife c...

John Boynton Priestley called this book “Maugham’s most honest work, in which the author allows himself to be himself.” A collection of essays on a variety o...