The novel “Pies and Beer, or the Skeleton in the Closet” is the life story of the famous English writer Edward Driffield, seen through the eyes of a young ma...

The collections “Ten Greatest Novels of Mankind” and “Points of View” are witty, original reflections on time, life and literature, non-standard and vivid no...

The collection of the English writer William S. Maugham (1874–1965), known to Soviet readers for his novels “Theater”, “The Moon and a Penny”, etc., includes...

A collection of “exotic” stories by Somerset Maugham about unusual people, unusual places and unusual events that could not have happened in boring and prim ...

A short relationship between a wealthy English heir and a Russian emigrant forced to become a “night butterfly”... It seems banal... but only at first glance...

“The Moon and a Penny” is a novel of big questions that art has been asking since time immemorial: what are the limits of being true to yourself and your des...

Diary entries of the great English writer. His witty maxims and ironic aphorisms. His impressions of meetings with his contemporaries - and sketches of futur...

This volume of selected prose by the outstanding English writer, classic of the 20th century William Somerset Maugham includes his novel “The Patterned Veil,...

Elegant, witty anecdotes. Their heroes are true English ladies and gentlemen with all their strengths and weaknesses, little whims and big quirks. Fashionabl...

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

The fifth volume of the Collected Works of W. S. Maugham includes his plays: “The Circle”, “For Merit”, travel essays “On a Chinese Screen”, the writer’s cre...