• ISBN13: 9781783948314
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Word to the Wise
• Publisher Imprint: Word to the Wise
• Publication Date: January 1, 2014
• Pages: 104
• Original Price: USD 9.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 150 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Classics

William Somerset Maugham was born on 25 January 1874 and was to become a playwright and novelist of staggering talent. Losing both his parents at age 10, he was raised by a paternal uncle. Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a doctor. The initial print run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time. His life was certainly full as the short biography at the end of this book will attest to, but it is also a life full of marvellous works and dedication to his art as 'Orientations' reveals.