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W. Somerset Maugham and the Mysterious "Looking Back" Manuscript
Home > Blog >Mysterious case of "Looking Back" MS - W. Somerset Maugham & Jeffrey Meyers
Meyers, Jeffrey. "Unsolved Mysteries." The Chronicle Review. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 Mar. 2016. Web. 21 Mar. 2016. I came across an interesting article today, written by Jeffrey Meyers, one of Maugham's biographers. I am still very behind in terms of reading Maugham's biographies. From what I have been flipping here and there looking for references, Meyers&…
"The Man with Red Hair" – Undocumented First Appearance of "Episode"
Home > Blog >"The Man with Red Hair" by W. Somerset Maugham
"The Man with Red Hair." Today's Woman 14.83 (Sept. 1946): 32–4, 132–7.A week ago I wrote about the story "The Kite" and its unrecorded first appearance in magazine Today's Woman as "A Man and His Kite." In this post, I will talk about another, which is even more curious: "The Man with Red Hair."When I came upon the title of this story, I thought it would be a reprint of &…
W. Somerset Maugham's Horoscopic Wisdom
Home > Blog >Free Will Astrology. Horoscopes for the week of March 17–23, 2016
Just came across today an amusing news. If I am here to testify W. Somerset Maugham's presence in the 21st century, this is well worth recording. I have to give Rob Brezsny a vote of ingenuity, though I am not a habitual horoscope reader and thus uncertain if this quoting authorities has become the latest trend of horoscope reading.Maugham has the honour of being cited to advise Gemini to have some real fu…
Unrecorded First Appearance of "The Kite" by W. Somerset Maugham
Home > Blog >"The Kite" by W. Somerset Maugham in Today's Woman Nov. 1946
"A Man and His Kite." Today's Woman 15.85 (Nov. 1946): 23, 114–9Recently I found out that this story was printed under the name "A Man and His Kite" in the magazine Today's Woman, a year before its publication as "The Kite" in the collection Creatures of Circumstance (1947). This is not noted in Stott.Today's Woman wasn't a habitual magazine that Maugham pu…
Of Human Bondage (1938) – Illustrated Edition
Of Human Bondage by Maugham & Sloan - Limited Editions Club (1938)Of Human Bondage. 2 vols. Illus. John Sloan. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1938.I have been quite curious about the illustrated editions of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. There were two, as far as I know, published during his life time; one done by Randolph Schwabe in 1936 and another, very closely, two years later by John Sloan in 1938. My interest was furthered aroused when…