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 collection includes literary works and memoirs of the most famous representatives of the “detective” genre from Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to Boilea...

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

“Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, i...

The book offers stories by William Somerset Maugham, adapted (without simplifying the original text) according to the method of Ilya Frank. The uniqueness of...

The book offers stories by William Somerset Maugham, adapted (without simplifying the original text) according to the method of Ilya Frank. The uniqueness of...

"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...

In this collection, Somerset Maugham appears as the author of fascinating political detective stories, which are based on his own experience of “secret servi...

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 ...

...Men are supposed to pursue love, and many men do so, but for a woman... it's disgusting...

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