'The Pacific', 'Mackintosh', 'The Fall of Edward Barnard', 'Rain', and 'Envoi' copyright © 1921 by the Royal Literary Fund 'The Casuarina Tree', 'Before the Party', 'P & O' and 'The Letter', copyright © 1926 by the Royal Literary Fund 'Sanatorium', 'The Colonel's Lady' and 'The Kite' copyright © 1947 by the Royal Literary Fund 'The Princess and the Nightingale', copyright © 1930 by the Royal Literary Fund 'The Round Dozen', 'Jane' and 'The Alien Cor', copyright © 1931 by the Royal Literary Fund 'The Door of Opportunity', 'The Vessel of Wrath' and 'The Book-Bag' copyright © 1933 by the Royal Literary Fund 'Sal-vatore' and 'The Judgement Seat' copyright © 1936 by the Royal Literary Fund 'Gigolo and Gigolette' copyright © 1940 by the Royal Literary fund 'Daisy' copyright © 1899 by the Royal Literary Fund
Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author's and publisher's rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly. This eBook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and short story writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and publication of the story The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, which was followed by seven more collections.
Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. He spent some time at St Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. Also available in Vintage THE MOON AND SIXPENCE
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