{"id":3126,"date":"2015-01-22T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2015-01-22T13:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T09:21:23","slug":"7-facts-about-w-somerset-maugham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/7-facts-about-w-somerset-maugham\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Facts about W. Somerset Maugham"},"content":{"rendered":"

W. Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular writers in the 1930s. What do you know about him?<\/p>\n

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He qualified in 1897 as a doctor from St. Thomas’ medical school<\/p><\/div>\n

He had a varied professional life that included obstetrics and a stint as a secret agent during World War I.<\/p>\n

The success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth<\/em> (1897), persuaded him to quit medicine for writing.<\/p>\n

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W. Somerset Maugham’s most famous novels<\/p><\/div>\n

He is most famous for four novels, Of Human Bondage<\/a><\/em> (1915), The Moon and Sixpence<\/em><\/a> (1919), Cakes and Ale<\/em> (1930), and The Razor’s Edge<\/em> (1944).<\/p>\n

His plays were popular in their day and at one time four of them ran simultaneously in London.<\/p>\n

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Authors Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole<\/p><\/div>\n

His novel Cakes and Ale<\/em> had very unflattering characterizations of the authors Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole<\/p>\n

His short stories are considered among the best in English.<\/p>\n

There have been 36 films adapted from his novels since 1917.<\/p>\n

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