Product Description

From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating admission into this great writer's workshop.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #996864 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From the Back Cover
From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings, it is a rich and exhilarating admission into this great writer's workshop.
'Holds the attention as effectively as Maugham's novels or short stories...From the beginning to end it manifests a lively and sympathetic intelligence, and the practised hand of a master-craftsman' Malcolm Muggeridge

About the Author
William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but left to focus exclusively on writing. In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965.