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El protagonista de la historia es un joven audaz, hábil en el arte del engaño y la estrategia, que se encuentra en el juego de su vida. En una mesa donde se juegan altas sumas de dinero y las apuestas son más que monetarias, se despliegan las tensiones y rivalidades entre los jugadores. Maugham, con su característico ingenio y habilidad para la narrativa, construye un relato donde el suspenso y la psicología de los personajes se entrelazan magistralmente.

El Poeta de Somerset Maugham es una historia cautivadora que sumerge al lector en el mundo de la pasión artística y el sacrificio personal. El relato gira en torno a la figura de un joven poeta, cuyo talento y dedicación a su arte lo llevan a un viaje de autodescubrimiento y ambición. En esta historia, Maugham explora la lucha eterna entre el deseo de éxito y la integridad artística. El protagonista se encuentra atrapado en una encrucijada de la vida: seguir su pasión por la poesía, enfrentándose a la pobreza y al anonimato, o ceder a las presiones del mundo material para asegurarse un futuro más estable.

Ambientada en un exótico paraje lejano, la historia sigue a cuatro amigos holandeses, cada uno con su propia personalidad y perspectiva de la vida, quienes se embarcan en una aventura inolvidable. A medida que se desarrolla el relato, Maugham expertamente entrelaza las historias individuales de estos cuatro personajes, revelando sus sueños, miedos y aspiraciones. El narrador, un observador agudo y perspicaz, se encuentra con estos hombres en circunstancias inusuales y queda fascinado por sus historias, lo que lo lleva a reflexionar sobre la naturaleza humana y las diferentes formas en que las personas enfrentan la vida.

Ésta es una intrigante historia que sumerge al lector en el misterioso mundo de la superstición y el destino. En esta narrativa, nos encontramos con un grupo de viajeros que se hospedan en un pintoresco hotel en Asia. La trama se centra en torno a la habitación número 12 del hotel, una habitación que despierta rumores y miedos entre los huéspedes debido a su pasado sombrío y eventos inexplicables.

In this tragic-comedic play, history repeats itself in marital break-ups and proposals as exes, in-laws, and offspring spend a few days at a country manor.

There’s something Constance Middleton’s friends are dying to tell her: her husband is having an affair – with her best friend! Despite their hints, Constance remains ever cool, and seemingly oblivious. Or is she? In this biting comedy of manners, marriages and mistresses, Constance – a not-so-desperate housewife - has some ideas of her own about extra-marital activity that surprise everyone in the end!

Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist’s voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrassing shadow over his career and respectable image.

La gente siempre esta en el filo de una navaja, dice un proverbio oriental y en el se baso el ingles Somerset Maugham para una de sus ultimas novelas, en donde los protagonistas son un joven intelectual y una muchacha que solo ansia ser rica. Ese conflicto entre la mente y lo material lleva a una serie de interesantes desarrollos.

Set in the time of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, Catalina is a novel both richly historical and affectingly human. Two eminent persons, natives of the city, were arriving after an absence of many years, and great doings had been arranged in their honor. In the Lady Chapel of the church a crippled girl prayed to the Blessed Virgin whose day it was, too. No greater things were planned for the girl, Catalina, but greater things awaited her.

Cakes and Ale is the novel that William Somerset Maugham said he wished to be remembered for. Published in 1930 and written in the first person singular, Maugham's narrator (and alter-ego) Ashenden exposes the disapproving, moral judgement made by conservative society on the character of Rosie Driffield and opines that it is unjustified.

The Narrow Corner is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, published by William Heinemann in 1932.

Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.

Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe ‘Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any language, whether it springs from vengeance...

The Painted Veil is the story of Kitty Garstin, a young socialite who amuses herself with the pursuit of various men until settling into a marriage with a physician, who takes her to Hong Kong to begin his work. Shortly after they move, Kitty meets the charming, yet distasteful, Charlie Townsend, and begins a passionate affair that lasts several years without notice from her husband.

Avtobiograficheskiy roman angliyskogo pisatelya Somerseta Uil'yama Moehma "Podvodya itogi" (1938) predstavlyaet soboy ne stol'ko izlozhenie fakticheskoy kanvy ego zhizni, skol'ko popytku proanalizirovat' svoy put' - pisatelya i cheloveka. Predel'no iskrennie i glubokie razmyshleniya avtora o svoem literaturnom tvorchestve i vnutrennem razvitii ne mogut ne zainteresovat' sovremennogo chitatelya.

Da den udstationerede engelske læge dr. Walter Fane opdager at hans hustru er ham utro udtænker han i sin forbitrelse en ganke særlig straf. Hustruen Kitty tvinges til at ledsage ham i hans arbejde i en landsby i det indre af Kina, hvor koleraen hærger.

After many years living abroad with her longtime lover, Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney visits her former marital home, now occupied by her son, Arnold, and his wife, Elizabeth. Also present is her estranged husband, Clive, who lives in a cottage on the estate. Elizabeth has become dissatisfied with the life she leads with her wealthy husband, who is very occupied with his political career, and she encourages the advances of a dashing but impecunious suitor, Teddy Luton.

W. Somerset Maugham is one of the best-loved short story writers of the last 100 years. In this collection of his finest short work Maugham takes the listener to the sun-drenched Pacific islands where the Governor mercilessly abuses the inhabitants; to the story "Rain", in which the Reverend and the prostitute play out one of the most famous finales ever written; to the studies of chauvinistic Colonels, and snide conversations in Edwardian drawing rooms, as well as at the gates of heaven. As an introduction to one of the greatest writers in the English language Stephen Crossley's reading is the perfect place to start.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Scottish Literature. Here is the legendary Ralph Richardson starring in ‘My Adventure in Norfolk’, adapted from the original tale by A. J. Alan and John Mills starring in 'The Kite' adapted from the original tale by Somerset Maugham. Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950s by the late Harry Alan Towers.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Scottish Literature. Here is the legendary Ralph Richardson starring in ‘The Colonel's Daughter’, adapted from the original tale by Somerset Maugham and Ralph Richardson starring in 'Half an Hour' adapted from the original tale by J.M. Barrie.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950s by the late Harry Alan Towers.