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📘 The creative impulse and other stories by William Somerset Maugham

First publish date: 1987

Authors: William Somerset Maugham

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📘 The Razor's Edge

by William Somerset Maugham

An American WWI air pilot, haunted by war, abandons a conventional life, studies in Paris, works odd jobs, and ultimately finds peace in India.

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📘 Of Human Bondage

by William Somerset Maugham

A poignant bildungsroman following Philip Carey, an orphan with a club-foot who aspires to become a doctor while confronting loneliness, love, and the search for meaning in early 20th‑century England.

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📘 The Magician

by William Somerset Maugham

Set in turn‑of‑the‑century Paris, William Maugham’s The Magician is a gothic horror tale of hypnotism and the occult, in which lovers Arthur and Margaret confront the sinister black magician Oliver Haddo.

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📘 The Summing Up

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📘 Collected short stories [of] W. Somerset Maugham

by William Somerset Maugham

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📘 Up at the Villa

by William Somerset Maugham

Maugham’s 1941 novella follows a young widow staying in a Florentine villa who, after one of her three paramours commits suicide, chooses to conceal the death rather than involve the authorities.

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📘 Maugham

by William Somerset Maugham

A concise biography of the English novelist and playwright William Somerset Maugham, spanning his life from 1874 to 1965 and charting his literary career.

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