Writer's Notebook

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Mandarin, 1991 - Fiction - 333 pages
From 1892, when he was 18, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. Part autobiographical, part confessional, this is a collection of Maugham's observations, confidences, aspirations and arbitrary jottings.

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A Writer's Notebook
William Somerset Maugham
Snippet view - 1949

About the author (1991)

Writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874. He attended St. Thomas's Medical School in London. A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965.

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TitleWriter's Notebook
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
Editionreprint
PublisherMandarin, 1991
ISBN0749304332, 9780749304331
Length333 pages
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Fiction / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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