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translation and publication of world-known authors like Alfred de Musset, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, W. Somerset Maugham, Katherine Mansfield, Christina Rossetti, etc.
The Sacred Flame by W. Somerset Maugham (Autumn 2012) - Touring from September 2012 to the following venues: Rose Theatre, Kingston, Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford Playhouse, New Wolsey Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Theatre Royal, Brighton, The Nuffield Theatre Southampton, and Cambridge Arts Theatre.
William Somerset Maugham wrote a short story about the case which he subsequently turned into a successful 1927 play The Letter and which in turn received two film adaptions of which the better known is William Wyler's classic film noir The Letter.
Maugham regularly portrayed Kelly in his works, as Lionel Hillier in Cakes and Ale, as Frederick Lawson in Of Human Bondage and as O'Malley in His Excellency presenting him as "the young Irish painter called O'Malley", and dedicating Ashenden to him.
The twentieth-century English novelist W. Somerset Maugham frequently used the term in his novels and short stories to describe male characters of a genial, sociable, and hard-drinking temperament (Of Human Bondage, The Trembling of a Leaf, Then and Now).
In The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, Kitty Fane is described by Charles Townsend as facing Hobson's choice after she is given an ultimatum by her husband Walter to either accompany him to cholera-infested Mei-Tan-Fu, or convince her lover Townsend to divorce his wife Dorothy so he can marry Kitty, which Walter knows in hindsight is unlikely because the divorce will ruin Townsend's chances of political advancement.
Conan Doyle was one of several authors commissioned to provide books for the library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House; others included J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and W. Somerset Maugham.
Notable touring productions include The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham with Wendy Craig, Our Song by Keith Waterhouse with Peter Bowles directed by Ned Sherrin, The Old Ladies by Rodney Ackland with Siân Phillips and Angela Thorne directed by Frith Banbury, as well as a number of comedies by Eric Chappell.
A verse in the Upanishad inspired the title and the epigraph of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel The Razor’s Edge, later adapted, twice, into films of the same title (see articles on 1946 and 1984 films).
In the formative phase of his writing career he experimented briefly with fiction writing but discarded this in favour of travelogues and other non-fiction, claiming to have little of value to offer the reader in the former genre even though an admirer of novelists such as Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham.
In the 1920s the author W. Somerset Maugham was a frequent visitor to Lok Kawi: his niece was married to the manager of Lok Kawi Estate.
Magauin translated several short stories and novels of the prominent foreign writers (William Somerset Maugham, Henry Rider Haggard, etc.) into Kazakh.
Inspired by Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence he spent the time painting island children using tent canvas and camouflage paint.
The Sadie Thompson Building, on the main road in Malaloa, on the outskirts of Pago Pago, in American Samoa, has significance from 1916, when author W. Somerset Maugham stayed there for six weeks.
During this time, he became interested in philosophy, sparked by W. Somerset Maugham's book The Razor's Edge.
Lefferts' name or her distinctive "W.E.L." signature appears on many book jackets, including the U.S. edition of W. Somerset Maugham's The Casuarina Tree (1926), DuBose Heyward's Angel (1926) and M. P. Shiel's Dr. Krasinski's Secret (1929).