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“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety” W.Somerset Maugham
The British novelist William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), one of the most popular writers in English in the 20th century, is noted for his clarity of style and skill in storytelling.
Born on January 25, 1874, in Paris, France, Somerset Maugham studied medicine for a time before turning to writing, eventually releasing well-known works likeOf Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale and The Razor’s Edge. A successful London playwright as well as an essayist and short-story writer, Maugham also faced critiques for his cynicism and harsh portrayals.
Wanting to write, he obtained his uncle’s permission to go to Heidelberg for a time. He chose the profession of medicine and spent 6 years in training at a London hospital. A year as an intern in the Lambeth slums followed, but he never practiced. For 10 years he wrote and lived in poverty in Paris.
The titles of some of Maugham’s early novels were familiar to a whole generation of readers.
Though his work was popular, he had a great many enemies because of his apparently malicious portraits of living people (for example, the characters based on Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole inCakes and Ale) and because his view of humanity seemed to be one of contempt or of patronizing tolerance.
This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of January. Check them out below.
(Top L-R) Stella Gibbons, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Isaac Asimov, Jack London, J.D. Salinger, Wilkie Collins (Bottom L-R) Jacob Grimm, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Lewis Carroll, W. Somerset Maugham, Magdalen Nabb
J.D. Salinger
(January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010)
Jerome David “J. D.” Salingerwas an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. His novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) brought him a lot of public attention-which he did not like. He published Franny and Zooey in 1961 and gave his last interview in 1980.
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E. M. Forster
(January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970)
Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster’s 1924 novel, A Passage to India brought him his greatest success.
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Isaac Asimov
(January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992)
Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books, such as I, Robot. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards and was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers during his lifetime.
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Jacob Grimm
(January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863)
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law, and as one of the Brothers Grimm (with his brother Wilhelm), as the editor of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
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Stella Gibbons
(January 5, 1902 – December 19, 1989)
Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which won the literary Prix Femina Étranger and has been reprinted many times.
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Wilkie Collins
(January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889)
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known work isThe Woman in White.
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Jack London
(January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)
John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Magdalen Nabb
(January 16, 1947 – August 18, 2007)
Nabb was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels such as Death of an Englishman.
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Edgar Allan Poe
(January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. His most famous works include The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death and The Pit and the Pendulum.
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Edith Wharton
(January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)
Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. The Age of Innocence was Wharton’s twelfth book which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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W. Somerset Maugham
(January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965)
William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. He is most remembered for his novels:Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, The Painted Veil and The Summing Up.
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Lewis Carroll
(January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
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William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.
His most notable works include:
Of Human Bondage
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099284963
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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The Moon and Sixpence
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099284765
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honor gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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The Summing Up
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099286899
The Summing Up is a literary memoir by W. Somerset Maugham, written when he was 64 years old, first published in 1938. It covered his life from 1890-1938.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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Theatre
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099286837
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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The Painted Veil
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099507390
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 but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.
The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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