Review
"A fascinating volume - vivid, thoughtful, full of colour." - The New York Times
From the Back Cover
"A fascinating volume - vivid, thoughtful, full of colour." - The New York Times
About the Author
W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965.