
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 ageing mother in the fictional Vere Street off …

Écrivain voyageur s'il en fut, Somerset Maugham nous a fait la grâce de restituer dans ses nouvelles une galerie de personnages plus pittoresques les uns que les autres et un panorama des lieux d'une grande diversité – en Europe, mais aussi en Asie et en Amérique – que son humeur vagabonde lui a donné l'occasion de …

Ashenden: Or the British Agent is a 1928 collection of loosely linked stories by W. Somerset Maugham. It is partly based on the author's experience as a member of British Intelligence in Europe during the First World War.