![]() ![]() His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933). ![]() His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. ![]()
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