title: "William Somerset Maugham"
text: "William Somerset Maugham (uk bek\u00e4\u00e4nd \u00fc\u00fcs W. Somerset Maugham [\u02c8s\u028cm\u0259s\u026at m\u0254\u02d0m]; * 25. Janewoore 1874 uun Pariis; \u2020 16. Deetsember 1965 uun Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat bi Nizza) wiar en ingels skriiwer an dramaatiker.\n\nLeewent\nHi wiar dring faan en afkoot, diar f\u00f6r det britisk ambasaad uun Pariis werket. Hi ferlus sin \u00e4\u00e4lern \u00e4\u00e4der an wurd faan san unkel aptaanjen. Hi studiaret medisiin uun London an Heidelberg. Hi lewet miast uun a s\u00fc\u00fcd faan Frankrik, man faan 1940 tu 1947 lewet hi uun d\u00f6n Ferianigt Stooten.\n\nSin \u00e4\u00e4der buken, Liza of Lambeth (1897) an A Man of Honour (1903), wiset sosiaalkritisk tendensen ap. L\u00e4\u00e4der dreid hi ham tu psycholoogisk probleemen uun leefde an befreien tu, miast faan lidj, wat uun huuch seelskapkreiser uun't \u00fctjlun lewe.\n\nWerken\n Liza of Lambeth (1897)\n A Man of Honour (1903)\n Lady Frederick (1907)\n Of Human Bondage (1915)\n The Moon and Sixpence (1919)\n The Circle (1921)\n Theatre (1937)\n The Razor's Edge (1944)\n\nKwelen\n Gerhard Steiner (Edit\u00f6\u00f6r), 1971, Fremdsprachige Schriftsteller, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, s. 402-403.\n\nSkriiwer"