The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, in which he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography. The novel inspired a film of the same name directed in 1926 by Rex Ingram. Arthur Burdon, a renowned English surgeon, is visiting Paris to see his fiancée, Margaret Dauncey. Margaret is studying art in Parisian school, along with her friend Susie Boyd. On his first evening in Paris, Burdon meets Oliver Haddo, who claims to be a magician and is an acquaintance of Burdon's mentor, the retired doctor and occult scholar Dr. Porhoët. While none of the company initially believe Haddo's claims, Haddo performs several feats of magic for them over the following days. Arthur eventually fights with Haddo, after the magician kicks Margaret's dog. In revenge, Haddo uses both his personality and his magic to seduce Margaret, despite her initial revulsion towards him. They get married and run away from Paris, leaving merely a note to inform Arthur, Susie and Porhoët. Arthur is distraught at the abandonment and promptly returns to England to immerse himself in his work. By this time Susie has fallen in love with Arthur, although she realises that this love will never be returned, and she goes away to Italy with a friend. During her travels, Susie hears much about the new Mr. and Mrs. Haddo, including a rumour that their marriage has not been consummated. When she eventually returns to England, she meets up with Arthur and they go to a dinner party held by a mutual acquaintance.

The Magician

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 from W. Somerset Maugham, Constance-a not-so-desperate housewife-has some ideas of her own about extra-marital activity that surprise everyone in the end. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Kate Burton as Constance Middleton Rosalind Ayres as Barbara Fawcett Mark Capri as Bentley/Mortimer Durham Stephen Collins as Bernard Kersal John De Lancie as John Middleton, F.R.C.S. Jen Dede as Marie-Louise Durham Christina Pickles as Mrs. Culver Kirsten Potter as Martha Culver Directed by Jeanie Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in April of 2010.

The Constant Wife

Spændingsroman. Fortællingen om den ensomme agent Ashenden afslører spionagetjensten som brutal og absurd. En skånselsløs krig i krigen hvor ingen kan stole på nogen og hvor forræderi hører til dagens orden. Det er alle agentromaners fader. Ian Fleming, Graham Greene og John Le Carré har alle åbent erkendt deres litterære gæld til W. Somerset Maugham og hans Ashenden – eller den britiske agent. I 1914 blev Maugham, under dække af at skulle færdiggøre et skuespil, sendt til Lucerne i Schweiz som hemmelig agent for Secret Service – det senere MI6. I 1928 skabte han med Ashenden litteraturens første hemmelige agent på baggrund af oplevelserne som spion under første verdenskrig. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM 1874 – 1965, engelsk forfatter. Maugham opnåede at være en af de mest populære og bedst betalte forfattere i sin tid. Maughams forfatterskab er bredt og rummer alle genrer. Blandt hans værker er romanerne Livets lænker, som både J.D. Salinger og George Orwell har nævnt som inspirationskilde, og Det brogede slør der er filmatiseret med Edward Norton i hovedrollen. "Hotellet lå ud til søen. En piccolo åbnede døren for ham, og han trådte ind i foyeren fulgt af et vindstød, der sendte papirerne på portierens disk op i luften. Ashenden blev blændet af lyset. Han standsede for at spørge, om der var breve til ham. Der var ingen, og han skulle netop til at gå ind i elevatoren, da portieren sagde, at der sad to herrer i hans værelse og ventede på at komme til at tale med ham. Ashenden havde ingen venner i Genève.

Ashenden

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. Det brogede slør er William Somerset Maughams klassiker fra 1925 om moral, ære og straf. Den skildrer mennesket i sit paniske forsøg på at realisere sig selv og samtidig skabe en mening med livet. Hans unikke forståelse for at opbygge spænding har - udover at afføde utallige filmatiseringer - resulteret i en enorm popularitet og en bred læserskare. Det brogede slør er filmatiseret tre gange, blandt andet i 1943 med Greta Garbo og Herbert Marshall i rollerne som lægen og den utro hustru. Copyright © by The Royal Literary Fund og Rosenkilde Oversat af Ludvig Holstein fra The Painted Veil kærlighed, utroskab, kolera, Kina, Hong Kong, 1910-1919, 1920-1929

Det brogede slør

De groeten van Guy de Maupassant en trawanten en of u maar even wilt luisteren... Boul de Suif Twee vrienden Het spijt me meneer Briggs Een man uit Glasgow Het kind Vermist De meermin Het concert Het tweede talent Die nacht in Dresden Ratten Iemand vertelt de waarheid Zeven nieuwe torpedojagers varen zich tot schroot Tussen acht en acht De rode kamer Het vierde jaar van de oorlog De gegadigde Ere aan de overwinnaar Toen viel het doek

Gepeperde verhalen

1. Henry Slesar - De gegadigde 2. H.G. Wells - De rode kamer 3. W. Somerset Maugham - Een man uit Glasgow

Bizar maar waar

Een boeiende verzameling gebeurtenissen van waargebeurd tot fantasy komt tot leven via de meesterverteller Peter van Eerdenburg. Ere aan de overwinnaar, Toen viel het doek, Het spijt mij meneer Briggs, De weg van de opperheer, Het lieve lesbische doktersvrouwtje, De taipan, Giulia Lazzari, Een man uit Glasgow, Commander Appelgate speelt commune, De geile dominee, Een Jumbojet vol haaienvoer, Jaloezie, Het kind, Vaderlandsliefde.

Peter van Eerdenburg

Spanning, geheimzinnigheid, griezeligheid, criminaliteit, seksualiteit en dat alles opgediend door meesterverteller Van Eerdenburg. De taipan, Giulia Lazzari, Een man uit Glasgow, Ere aan de overwinnaar, Dollemansjacht, Toen viel het doek, Het spijt mij, meneer Briggs, De weg van de opperheer, Commander Appelgate speelt commune, De geile dominee, Een jumbojet vol haaienvoer, Het lieve lesbische doktersvrouwtje, Jaloezie, Het kind, Vaderlandsliefde.

Vier specialisten, schrijvers, leggen je het vuur aan de schenen van je fantasie. Durf je nog te luisteren? De gebedskring, Dood & co, De afgesloten kamer van Leopold, Moord, Een bot mes, De verrader, Dromen van verre levens, Post voor de nimbus, Een dame in de val lokken, Het kleine vrouwtje uit Servië, Belgrado 1926.

Gemeen, geniepig en geraffineerd

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their passionate affair and Liza's fall from grace is fast and fatal. Written while Maugham was a medical student, and his first published novel, Liza of Lambeth is a vividly realistic portrayal of working-class London life.

W. Somerset Maugham Collection

Liza of Lambeth

BBC Radio 4 dramatisations and readings of Somerset Maugham's fiction - plus bonus programme Replay: Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham was one of the most successful English writers of the 20th Century, and remains the most adapted for film and TV. This collection includes eight of his novels, plays and short stories, as heard on BBC radio, as well as an illuminating interview with the author himself. The Moon and Sixpence - Respectable stockbroker Charles Strickland abandons his wife and children to live as a painter in Paris and Tahiti. Starring Ronald Pickup and Patrick Allen. The Painted Veil - First published in 1925 to a storm of protest, this is a haunting, poignant tale of one woman's spiritual awakening. Starring Sarah Smart and Nicholas Farrell. The Sacred Flame- Invalided following an air crash, Maurice is determined to remain cheerful. But his condition affects all those who are close to him. Starring Julian Glover, Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon and Janet Maw. Ashenden, Gentleman Spy - Ashenden, a writer by profession, returns from the First World War and is offered a position in the Secret Service. Five short stories based on Maugham's own wartime experiences, read byAlex Jennings. For Services Rendered- In this incisive state-of-the nation play, it is 1932, and the progressive Ardsley family seem to be managing their lives very well. But in reality, each of them is fighting for survival. Starring David Calder, Sian Thomas and Louise Brealey. The Narrow Corner - Sailing home from the East Indies, a doctor and his two companions are forced to seek shelter on the island of Kanda - where they encounter the beautiful, sultry Louise... Starring Garard Green, Owen Scott, Douglas Blackwell and Cara Kelly. Christmas Holiday - 1938, and Charley is looking forward to spending Christmas in Paris with his old school friend, Simon. But they are both ignorant of the storm clouds lowering over Europe... Starring Peter Rumney and Anthony Daniels. The Razor's Edge - After the First World War, Larry Darrell returns to Chicago but finds it difficult to fit back into society. To the dismay of his fiancée, Isabel, he heads for Paris and embarks on a spiritual quest. StarringNicholas Le Prevost, John Light and Megan Dodds. Replay: Somerset Maugham - Philip French presents an archive interview with Somerset Maugham, recorded in 1954 on the occasion of his 80th birthday. ©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection

As a fictionalized account of the tumultuous career of Paul Gauguin, W. Somerset Maugham's classic story captured the hearts of a generation. First published in 1919, it provided just the exotic antidote a war-weary world desired. At first, Charles Strickland's life was unremarkable. A stock broker in London, he dwelled quietly with his wife and two children. All who knew him described him as "very dull." How shocking it was, then, when he abandoned this respectable identity to wander the world, make a home in Tahiti, and become an unconventional artist who captured passionate images of primitive life. Soon after the publication of The Moon and Sixpence, hordes of young men fell prey to the dreams and wanderlust of its hero. They, too, would leave comfortable middle-class lives for the lure of far off, exotic lands. This stunning, unabridged narration by Neil Hunt will transport you into the artist's world of vibrant dreams and possibilities.

The Moon and Sixpence

Liza of Lambeth was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth. All in all, it gives the reader an interesting insight into the everyday lives of working class Londoners at the end of the nineteenth century. The action covers a period of roughly four months.from August to November.around the time of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Liza Kemp is an 18-year-old factory worker and the youngest of a large family, now living alone with her aging mother. Very popular with all the residents of Vere Street, Lambeth, she likes Tom, a boy her age, but not as much as he likes her, so she rejects him when he proposes. Nevertheless, she is persuaded to join a party of 32 who make a coach trip (in a horse-drawn coach, of course) to a nearby village on the August Bank Holiday Monday. Some of the other members of the party are Tom; Liza's friend Sally and her boyfriend Harry; and Jim Blakeston, a 40-year-old father of 5 who has recently moved to Vere Street with his large family, and his wife (while their eldest daughter, Polly, is taking care of her siblings). The outing is fun, and they all get drunk on beer. On their way back in the dark, Liza realises that Jim Blakeston is making a pass at her by holding her hand. Back home, Jim manages to speak to her alone and to steal a kiss from her.

Many war heroes return from battle to a world that has changed dramatically. In the case of James Parsons, the protagonist of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Hero, his family and hometown have remained exactly as they were before he left to serve his country abroad – it is his own outlook and values that have shifted. Will he be able to settle back into his old life and regain the happiness that was once his? Read The Hero to find out.

The Hero (1901)

Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention." Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from a section of Spinoza's Ethics. The Modern Library ranked Of Human Bondage No. 66 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The book begins with the death of Helen Carey, the much beloved mother of nine-year-old Philip Carey. Philip has a club foot and his father had died a few months before. Now orphaned, he is sent to live with his aunt Louisa and uncle William Carey. Early chapters relate Philip's experiences at his uncle's vicarage. Aunt Louisa tries to be a mother to Philip, but his uncle takes a cold disposition towards him. Philip's uncle has a vast collection of books, and Philip enjoys reading to find ways to escape his mundane existence. Less than a year later, Philip is sent to a boarding school. His uncle and aunt wish for him to eventually attend Oxford. Philip's disability and sensitive nature make it difficult for him to fit in with the other students. Philip is informed that he could have earned a scholarship for Oxford, which both his uncle and school headmaster see as a wise course, but Philip insists on going to Germany.

Of Human Bondage

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.

The Narrow Corner is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, published by William Heinemann in 1932. A quote from Meditations, iii 10, by Marcus Aurelius, introduces the work: "Short therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells." In the story, set "a good many years ago" in what is now Indonesia, a young Australian, cruising the islands after his involvement in a murder in Sydney, has a passionate affair on an island which causes a further tragedy. William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and the orphaned boy was raised in Whitstable, Kent by a paternal uncle, who was emotionally cold. He did not want to become a lawyer like other men in his family, so he trained and qualified as a physician. His first novel Liza of Lambeth (1897) sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time. In 1915 he wrote Of Human Bondage, widely considered his masterpiece. During the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps before being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service. He worked for the service in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917 in the Russian Empire. During and after the war, he travelled in India, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He drew from those experiences in his later short stories and novels.

The Narrow Corner

On a Chinese Screen, also known as On a Chinese Screen: Sketches of Life in China, is a travel book by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1922. It is a series of short sketches Maugham made during a trip along the Yangtze River in 1919-1920, and although ostensibly about China the book is equally focused on the various westerners he met during the trip and their struggles to accept or adapt to the cultural differences they encounter, which are often as enormous and as alienating as the country itself.

On a Chinese Screen

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is written largely from the point of view of the narrator, a young, aspiring writer and playwright in London. Certain chapters entirely comprise accounts of events by other characters, which the narrator recalls from memory (selectively editing or elaborating on certain aspects of dialogue, particularly Strickland's, as Strickland is said by the narrator to have a very poor ability to express himself in words). The narrator first develops an acquaintance with Strickland's wife at literary parties, and later meets Strickland himself, who appears to be an unremarkable businessman with no interest in his wife's literary or artistic tastes. Strickland is a well-off, middle-class stockbroker in London sometime in late 19th or early 20th century. Early in the novel, he leaves his wife and children and goes to Paris. (The narrator enters directly into the story at this point, when he is asked by Mrs Strickland to go to Paris and talk with her husband.) He lives a destitute but defiantly content life there as an artist (specifically a painter), lodging in run-down hotels and falling prey to both illness and hunger. Strickland, in his drive to express through his art what appears to continually possess and compel him on the inside, cares nothing for physical discomfort and is indifferent to his surroundings. He is helped and supported by a commercially successful but hackneyed Dutch painter, Dirk Stroeve (coincidentally, also an old friend of the narrator's), who recognises Strickland's genius as a painter.

An extraordinarily popular author during his lifetime, W. Somerset Maugham created a literary legacy that includes such classics as The Moon and Sixpence and The Razor' s Edge. Maugham' s first novel, Liza of Lambeth is the story of 18-year-old Liza Kemp, a London factory worker near the beginning of the 20th century who falls deeply in love with a 40-year-old father of nine children. As the affair escalates, Liza pays little mind to the damage her reputation is suffering. But society becomes increasingly troubled by the relationship.

The Narrow Corner is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, published by William Heinemann in 1932. A quote from Meditations, iii 10, by Marcus Aurelius,[2] introduces the work: "Short therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells." In the story, set "a good many years ago" in what is now Indonesia, a young Australian, cruising the islands after his involvement in a murder in Sydney, has a passionate affair on an island which causes a further tragedy. William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and the orphaned boy was raised in Whitstable, Kent by a paternal uncle, who was emotionally cold. He did not want to become a lawyer like other men in his family, so he trained and qualified as a physician. His first novel Liza of Lambeth (1897) sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time. In 1915 he wrote Of Human Bondage, widely considered his masterpiece. During the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps before being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service. He worked for the service in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917 in the Russian Empire. During and after the war, he travelled in India, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He drew from those experiences in his later short stories and novels.

The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, in which he accused Maugham of plagiarism.

Five years change a man, and when they have been spent in the bush fighting Boers, the changes are profound. So when Jamie Parson comes home with captain's pips and a Victoria Cross, he is no longer the boy he was. But not to his parents and Mary, his sweetheart...they expect him to fit in. Jamie can't, and shortly breaks off with Mary. Happiness remains a shadow, illusive as the Boers, and Jamie finds the moral struggle as relentless as the military.

The Hero

[CDATA[Mrs. Mary Panton residiert seit dem Tod ihres  Mannes in einer Villa in den Hügeln über Florenz,  wo sie sich die Zeit damit vertreibt, über ihre unglückliche  Ehe zu kontemplieren und ihre Wünsche  und ihr Begehren hinter den dicken Mauern  des Anwesens zu verbergen. Doch eines schönen,  gewohnt langweiligen Tages bekommt sie  es mit gleich drei heiratswütigen Männern zu tun.  Der erste, ein Freund aus Kindertagen, ist ihr zu  sehr Gentleman, der zweite zu sehr das Gegenteil  davon und der dritte, ein überaus untalentierter  Violinist, ist leider oder zu ihrem Glück recht bald  tot. Hans Korte liest diesen leicht-beschwingten  Roman mit großer Herzenswärme und feiner Ironie.]]

Oben in der Villa

[CDATA[Henry Garnets Sohn ist ein ansehnlicher junger Mann: 1,85 Meter groß, breite Schultern, schneeweiße Zähne. Er studiert in Cambridge und gilt als begabter Tennisspieler. Als er zu einem Turnier nach Monte Carlo fährt, gibt ihm sein Vater einen Rat mit auf den Weg: »Erstens: Glücksspiel. Spiel nie! Zweitens: Geldaffären. Leih nie! Drittens: Frauen. Hände weg!« Der Sohn verspricht, daran zu denken, aber irgendwie kommt dann doch alles ganz anders … Hans Korte liest mit »Aufgeklärt«, »Die drei dicken Damen von Antibes« und »Mister Allwissend« drei meisterliche Erzählungen von W. Somerset Maugham, einem der meistgelesenen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts.]]

Aufgeklärt. Erzählungen

[CDATA[»Es gibt keinen Ort in den Malaiischen Staaten, der bezaubernder wäre als Tanah Merah…«, so beginnt Somerset Maugham eine seiner bekanntesten Erzählungen. Doch auch an den bezaubernden Orten dieser Erde wohnt das Böse. Ob in Südostasien, Frankreich oder in heimischen Gefilden, stets versteht es Somerset Maugham in die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele zu blicken und die dunklen Seiten der zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen auszuleuchten. Maughams Geschichten beben vor innerer Spannung und sind angereichert mit einem hintergründigen Humor. Vier davon liest in dieser Auswahl der Schauspieler Uwe Friedrichsen.]]

Fußspuren im Dschungel und andere Erzählungen

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