The  two worlds of Somerset Maugham.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Sherbourne Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0000000000135
Subjects: Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965.; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Description: The Two Worlds of Somerset Maugham presents for the first time anywhere, an intimate, in depth portrait of the famous British author, now in his nineties. Maugham's fabulous life has been divided into two utterly divergent spheres: the lush, pagan beauty of the South Pacific and the old world sophistication and opulence of Villa Mauresque at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera. Here is the true story of Maugham as bon vivant, a literary giant in his time, and a familiar voyager to faraway, exotic countries in search of material. - Jacket flap.
Notes: "The writings of W. Somerset Maugham": p. 371-374.
Table of contents: title: The meeting.; title: Introduction at Rapallo; title: A view of the Polynesians; title: On people, places and writing; title: Hawaii.; title: The red-light district of Iwilei; title: On Hawaii and Hawaiians; title: A drinking monarch and a volcano; title: Samoa.; title: On reading, Sadie, and the Samoans; title: A view of Robert Louis Stevenson and Moetotolo; title: Tales of Samoa; title: Interlude.; title: Rain and an attack on Maugham; title: Maugham, women, and Villa Mauresque; title: Tahiti.; title: Gaugin-on-glass, a mistress, and a son; title: A memory of Rupert Brooke, Stevenson and Loti; title: London, Levy and Gauguin; title: The agony of Paul Gauguin; title: Maugham on a private island; title: Farewell to Tahiti and Louvaina's death; title: The search.; title: Reunion in Europe; title: Miss Sadie Thompson and her lover; title: Ethel of The Pool and a discovery; title: Emile a Tai Gauguin; title: Maugham on thieves, age, death and God; title: The writings of W. Somerset Maugham