In W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, published in 1944, the author mentions Parnell and O ' Shea: " Passion is destructive.

The Yellow Book is also mentioned in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage:

* Liza of Lambeth ( 1897 ) is Maugham's depiction of working class life in Victorian London.

Landor's " I Strove with None " is also quoted in Somerset Maugham's " The Razor's Edge.

Żubrówka is featured in W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge.

Perhaps the best-known portrait of an Anglican verger in fiction is in Somerset Maugham's short story, " The Verger.

The title is a reference to W. Somerset Maugham's retelling of an old story, which appears as an epigraph for the novel: A merchant in Baghdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions.

Somerset Maugham's short-story, " A Man with a Conscience " is set in St. Laurent de Maroni.

Ashenden is the narrator of Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale.

For example, William Somerset Maugham's ( 1874 – 1966 ) novella Up at the Villa ( 1941 ) could very well be classified as crime fiction.

His work, possibly in consequence, tends to be reminiscent of Somerset Maugham, although without Maugham's huge popular success.

Somerset Maugham's opinion was that " a Martini should always be stirred, not shaken, so that the molecules lie sensuously on top of one another ".

By the 1930s, though his public success remained considerable, critical opinion saw Walpole as outdated, and his reputation took a blow from a malicious caricature in Somerset Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale in which the character Alroy Kear, a superficial novelist of more ruthless ambition than literary talent, was widely taken to be based on Walpole.

She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York-style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's short story, Rain.

* 1915 W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage

After more than 20 film roles, the role of the vicious and slatternly Mildred Rogers in the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), a film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim.

Howard had earlier co-starred with Davis in the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's book Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) and later in the romantic comedy It's Love I'm After ( 1937 ) ( also co-starring Olivia de Havilland ).

The 1964 remake of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage was a failure, as was The Outrage ( 1964 ), director Martin Ritt's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashomon, despite the presence of Paul Newman.

In 1964, she played a vulgar waitress in a remake of W. Somerset Maugham's drama Of Human Bondage opposite Laurence Harvey ; and replaced the late Marilyn Monroe as a sultry barmaid in Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid with Dean Martin and Ray Walston.

* The main character, Philip Carey, in W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage, has a club foot, a central theme in the work.

" In his essay " Of ( Human ) Bondage in Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings " Joe Sanders compares Bishop's young protagonist with Philip Carey of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage.

After Maugham's death in 1965 Beverley Nichols, a former lover of Maugham's and a close friend of Syrie's, wrote in rebuttal a defence of her called A Case of Human Bondage ( 1966 ).

Adler and Bob Merrill collaborated on a musical version of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage so that Howes could play Mildred.

He directed Tom Sawyer ( 1930 ) starring Jackie Coogan in the title role ; Sinclair Lewis's Ann Vickers ( 1933 ) starring Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot, and Edna May Oliver ; and Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Frances Dee.

The screenplay for Maugham's Of Human Bondage was unacceptable because the prostitute, Mildred Rogers ( played by Davis ), whom the club-footed medical student, Philip Carey ( played by Howard ), falls in love with, comes down with syphilis.

Maugham's last major novel, The Razor's Edge, published in 1944, was a departure for him in many ways.

Gauguin's life inspired W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence.

Liza of Lambeth ( 1897 ) 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.

Other than re-releases of his films, Power wasn ’ t seen on screen again after his entry into the Marines until 1946, when he co-starred with Gene Tierney in The Razor's Edge, an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name.

* Moon and Sixpence in Portland, OR honors Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name.

* Olive ( film ), adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, featuring Martin Potter ( actor )

The term gained wide currency outside China after the publication of Somerset Maugham's 1922 short story " The Taipan " and James Clavell's 1966 novel Tai-Pan.

Philip's clubfoot causes him endless self-consciousness and embarrassment, echoing Maugham's struggles with his stutter and, as his biographer Ted Morgan notes, his homosexuality.

Some, however, dealt with professional spies as in Hitchcock's Secret Agent ( 1936 ), based on W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden stories.

Her television acting in the late 1960s and early 1970s included The Door of Opportunity ( 1970 ) with Ian Ogilvy, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's story, followed by August Strindberg's The Stronger ( 1971 ) with Britt Ekland, and Terrible Jim Fitch ( 1971 ) by James Leo Herlihy, which once more paired Faithfull with Nicol Williamson.

In 1968 Lowe was invited by Laurence Olivier to act at the National Theatre at the Old Vic and appeared in Somerset Maugham's Home and Beauty in 1968 and later The Tempest in 1974 with John Gielgud.

" The writers Stansky and Abrahams, while noting that the character Flory probably had his roots in Captain Robinson, a cashiered ex-officer whom Orwell had met in Mandalay, ' with his opium-smoking and native women ', affirmed that Flory's " deepest roots are traceable to fiction, from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim through all those Englishmen gone to seed in the East which are one of Maugham's better-known specialities.

She pursued her favorite subject-the female experience-in a number of films, including Street Corner ( 1953 ) about women police officers, Somerset Maugham's The Beachcomber ( 1954 ), with Glynis Johns as a resourceful missionary, and a series of comedies about the battle of the sexes, including The Passionate Stranger ( 1957 ), The Truth About Women ( 1958 ) and her final film, Rattle of a Simple Man ( 1964 ).

From 1923-29 she appeared as the Principessa della Cercola in W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters ( Globe, 1924 ) and as Mrs. Linden in Ibsen's A Doll's House ( Playhouse, 1925 ) in the West End, along with engagements at club theatres such as the Q Theatre and the Arts Theatre and a short 1926 Chekhov season at the small Barnes Theatre under Victor Komisarjevsky ( playing Charlotta Ivanovna, in The Cherry Orchard and Olga in Three Sisters ).

However by the time this occurred in early 1939, Chamberlain was sufficiently impressed with Maugham's work to offer to retain him, whilst allowing Inskip the opportunity to defer choosing between becoming Lord Chancellor and remaining in the House of Commons with the possibility of becoming Prime Minister ( a choice that Hailsham had always regretted ) and intended to make a change at the next general election, which was expected to take place that year.

Eventually, after some years of separation, she became pregnant with Maugham's only child, Mary Elizabeth, who was known as Liza.

In 1908 Somerset Maugham's Mrs. Dot provided her with arguably her finest role, followed by parts in All-of-a-Sudden Peggy and Penelope.

Maugham's daughter was awarded approximately $ 1, 400, 000 in damages, comprising $ 280, 000 in a cash settlement to compensate her for paintings originally willed to her, along with royalties to some of his books, and the controlling interest in his French villa .< ref >

At the age of 21, with just £ 50 and an introduction to famed actress Marie Tempest from Gregan McMahon, she emigrated to England where she became established as a stage actress, notably as leading lady to Jack Buchanan in Frederick Lonsdale's The Last of Mrs Cheyney, W Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick and Alan Melville's Castle in the Air.