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Maugham
[ mawm ]
noun
- W(illiam) Som·er·set [suhm, -er-set, -sit], 1874–1965, English novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer.
Maugham
/ ˈɔː /
noun
- MaughamW(illiam) Somerset18741965MEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writerTHEATRE: dramatist W ( illiam ) Somerset. 1874–1965, English writer. His works include the novels Of Human Bondage (1915) and Cakes and Ale (1930), short stories, and comedies
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She also starred in the 1989 Broadway revival of “The Circle,” W. Somerset Maugham’s romantic comedy about love, marriage and fidelity, opposite Rex Harrison and Stewart Granger.
“Maugham,” his 1980 biography of the British playwright and novelist W. Somerset Maugham drew the special admiration of critics.
The novel’s electric prose established Mr. Amis as an important young English writer and won the Somerset Maugham Award for writers under 30.
An early American review of “Chocolat” compared its “intertwined themes of colonialism and forbidden love” to one of Somerset Maugham’s steamy Malaysian melodramas.
Supreme Court to intervene, if it felt Scotland had overreached, said Maugham, the lawyer.
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