For Services Rendered - Softcover

Maugham, W Somerset

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573114676 ISBN 13: 9780573114670

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

For Services Rendered sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War.

The play was first performed at the Globe Theatre in London in 1932.

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About the Author

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St Thomas's Hospital with the idea of practicing medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. His first play, A Man of Honour, was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey. His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His other works include travel books such as On a Chinese Screen and Don Fernando, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965.

Edition details

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0573114676
• ISBN 13: 9780573114670
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114