Somerset Maugham Autograph

William Somerset Maugham CH (/mɔːm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practised medicine, and became a full-time writer. His first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a study of life in the slums, attracted attention, but it was as a playwright that he first achieved national celebrity. By 1908 he had four plays running at once in the West End of London. He wrote his 32nd and last play in 1933, after which he abandoned the theatre and concentrated on novels and short stories. More about Somerset Maugham

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thumbnailGoren The Standard Book of Bidding: Intro by W. Somerset Maugham (Signed) 1947$20.00logo
thumbnailThe Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham (1945, Hardcover) - Facsimile Signature$39.99logo
thumbnailThe Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham (1945, Hardcover) - Facsimile Signature$450.00logo
thumbnailThe Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham By Selina Hastings, Signed By Author$13.99logo
thumbnailTHE SUMMING UP - 1ST. AMERICAN PAPERBACK ED. SIGNED BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM$1000.00logo
thumbnailTwo (2) Signed Autographs Original W. Somerset Maugham - Typed Letter - 1962$499.99logo
thumbnailWILLIE - The Life of W Somerset Maugham - Robert Calder - 1989 SIGNED$99.99logo
Maugham's novels after Liza of Lambeth include Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), The Painted Veil (1925), Cakes and Ale (1930) and The Razor's Edge (1944). His short stories were published in collections such as The Casuarina Tree (1926) and The Mixture as Before (1940); many of them have been adapted for radio, cinema and television. His great popularity and prodigious sales provoked adverse reactions from highbrow critics, many of whom sought to belittle him as merely competent. More recent assessments generally rank Of Human Bondage − a book with a large autobiographical element − as a masterpiece, and his short stories are widely held in high critical regard. Maugham's plain prose style became known for its lucidity, but his reliance on clichés attracted adverse critical comment.

During the First World War Maugham worked for the British Secret Service, later drawing on his experiences for stories published in the 1920s. Although primarily homosexual, he attempted to conform to some extent with the norms of his day. He became a father and husband, marrying Syrie Wellcome in 1917, three years into an affair that produced their daughter, Liza. The marriage lasted for twelve years, but before, during and after it, Maugham's principal partner was a younger man, Gerald Haxton. Together they made extended visits to Asia, the South Seas and other destinations; Maugham gathered material for his fiction wherever they went. They lived together in the French Riviera, where Maugham entertained lavishly. After Haxton's death in 1944, Alan Searle became Maugham's secretary-companion for the rest of the author's life. Maugham gave up writing novels shortly after the Second World War, and his last years were marred by senility. He died at the age of 91. Read even more about Somerset Maugham at Wikipedia

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The most expensive item with a signature of Somerset Maugham (The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, SIGNED 1st edition) was sold in March 2021 for $650.00 while the cheapest item (Author William Somerset Maugham Signed Letter NO RESERVE AUCTION) found a new owner for $0.99 in September 2021. The month with the most items sold (2) was July 2021 with an average selling price of $149.90 for an autographed item of Somerset Maugham. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2023 with $510.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $4.00 was August 2023. In average, an autographed item from Somerset Maugham is worth $131.00.

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thumbnail1927 ON A CHINESE SCREEN BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM SIGNED BY VINCENT STARRETT$20.00logo
thumbnailA Writer's Notebook W Somerset Maugham SIGNED 1949 Limited First Edition Case$299.00logo
thumbnailA Writer's Notebook W Somerset Maugham SIGNED Autograph Literature 1949 Novelist$65.00logo
thumbnailBRITISH WRITER SOMERSET MAUGHAM SIGNED BOOK LIZA OF LAMBETH 1947 JUBIlEE EDITION$265.50logo
thumbnailEast & West W Somerset Maugham HC NO DJ 1932 Signed Plus Printing Error U$201.50logo
thumbnailSomerset Maugham, autograph signed personal stationery, Villa Mauresque, 1964$122.00logo
thumbnailThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 1945 Facsimile Autograph Edition Vintage$4.00logo
thumbnailThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 1945 Facsimile Autograph Edition Vintage$34.75logo
thumbnailTraveller's Library Compiled with Notes by W. Somerset Maugham with Signed Mail$20.00logo
thumbnailTwo (2) Signed Autograph Original W. Somerset Maugham Handwritten Letters c.1923$510.00logo