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,...

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Es gibt keinen Ort in den malaiischen Staaten, der bezaubernder wäre als Tanah Merah. Und in Tanah Merah gibt es keine netteren Leute als die Cartwrights. Er ist ein ruhiger, angenehmer Zeitgenosse, und sie ist scharfzüngig und spielt...

"The Moon and Sixpence" von W. Somerset Maugham ist eine fesselnde Erzählung, die auf dem Leben des berühmten Malers Paul Gauguin basiert. Das Buch folgt der Geschichte von Charles Strickland, einem wohlhabenden Börsenmakler in London,...

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper. In...

In den entlegensten Ecken der Erde spielen Maughams Geschichten: auf einer Teeplantage in Ostasien, im Casino in Monaco, im Armenviertel in London oder auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff in der Karibik. Doch ob in Europa oder in den britischen...

Of Human Bondage von Maugham, W. Somerset

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds...

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine,...

A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with one...

Maugham's greatest popular novel tells the story of Larry Darrell, an attractive and enigmatic American who forsakes bourgeois society to live a life dedicated to the pursuit of truth and meaning. von Maugham, W. Somerset

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her...