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100 1 $aMeyers, Jeffrey.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091882
245 10 $aSomerset Maugham :$ba life /$cJeffrey Meyers.
246 30 $aSomerset Maugham
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c2004.
300 $axvi, 411 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aFilmography: p. 398-400.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 395-397) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tParis and King's School, 1874-1889 -- $g2.$tHeidelberg and Medicine, 1890-1897 -- $g3.$tLiza of Lambeth and Spain, 1897-1899 -- $g4.$tStruggling Author, 1900-1904 -- $g5.$tBohemia and Frame, 1905-1908 -- $g6.$tSue Jones and Syrie, 1909-1915 -- $g7.$tThe Great War and Gerald Haxton, 1914-1916 -- $g8.$tSecret Agent, 1916-1919 -- $g9.$tMalaya and China, 1919-1921 -- $g10.$tDangerous Journeys, Dangerous Friends, 1921-1925 -- $g11.$tVilla Mauresque, 1926-1928 -- $g12.$t"Stately Homo," 1928-1929 -- $g13.$tReputations: Cakes and Ale, 1930-1933 -- $g14.$tIndia and Eternal Youth, 1934-1938 -- $g15.$tWar Propaganda and Hollywood, 1939-1941 -- $g16.$tYemassee and Haxton's Death, 1942-1944 -- $g17.$tAlan Searle and Art, 1945-1946 -- $g18.$tThe Lizard of Oz, 1947-1950 -- $g19.$tRoyalty and Honors, 1951-1955 -- $g20.$tThe Old Party, 1956-1961 -- $g21.$tFamily Values, 1962-1965 -- $g22.$tAfterlife.
520 1 $a"Telling Maugham's story, from his sad, orphaned childhood in the small English coastal town of Whitstable, through his Paris years and his wandering years, to his luxurious, indeed glamorous, old age at the Villa Mauresque on Cap Ferrat, Meyers reveals much that is new - about Maugham's days at Heidelberg and on Capri, his medical training, his wartime espionage, his quarrels with D. H. Lawrence and Edmund Wilson, his friendship with Noel Coward, and about his longtime lover, Gerald Haxton. He writes of Maugham's encounters with Winston Churchill, E. M. Forster, the Sitwells, T. S. Eliot, Bernard Berenson and the Windsors; of his affairs with four attractive and accomplished women; of his torturous ten-year marriage to one of them - Syrie, who became a celebrated decorator - and his wish to marry the actress Sue Jones, gentle, loving and promiscuous, who was his model for Rosie Driffield in Cakes and Ale." "Meyers describes Joseph Conrad's influence on Maugham and Maugham's on George Orwell and V. S. Naipaul. He provides a fascinating portrait of a brilliant and complex man whose talent has held and dazzled a cultivated audience from the late Victorian era to the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMaugham, W. Somerset$q(William Somerset),$d1874-1965.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79036830
650 0 $aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101063
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR6025.A86$iZ763 2004