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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography

9 best books like The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography (Selina Shirley Hastings): The Moon and Sixpence, Ashenden, The Painted Veil, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road, The Sun in the Morning: My Early Years in India and England, Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby, The Merry-Go-Round, The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya, White Mischief

The Moon and Sixpence
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN1598185217
Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.
Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic...
Ashenden
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN0099289709
A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living in Switzerland. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many European countries, he was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and...
The Painted Veil
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN0307277771
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, but love-starved Kitty Fane.

When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small...
Pather Panchali: Song of the Road
AuthorBibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
ISBN0253201861
Pather Panchali deals with the life of the Roy family, consisting of Harihar, Sarbajaya, Apu and Durga, both in their ancestral village Nishchindipur in rural Bengal and later when they move to Varanasi in search of a better life, as well as the anguish and loss they face during their travels.

It...
The Sun in the Morning: My Early Years in India and England
AuthorM.M. Kaye
ISBN0312049994
M.M. Kaye’s memories are as beautiful as her descriptive prose in this colorful and wistfully evocative memoir of her youth in India, which to her was always home. The reader will come away with a different view of India during the time of the Raj, and before the Great War. Anything but a political book,...
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
AuthorGeoffrey Wolff
ISBN1590170660
Includes an afterword by the author

Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs,...
The Merry-Go-Round
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN0140185968
Somerset Maugham was one of the world's most prolific and popular authors. He wrote with great facility and at one time had four plays running simultaneously in four different London theaters.He was trained as a doctor, and he must have been good: his observations are truthful and free of sentiment....
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
AuthorFrances Osborne
ISBN1844084817
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off...
White Mischief
AuthorJames Fox
Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenya's colonial community,...
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