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In catalogues this is often put as first edition published in 1908, which is not true, as can be verified by the other books listed as by the same author, including Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), and The Trembling of a…

The skeleton of the story is already present in the story “Cupid and the Vicar of Swale” (1900), then it was written in 1902 as a novel called Loaves and Fishes; when it failed to find a publisher, Maugham rewrote it into a play of the same name in…

This is the French translation of Theatre.

Stott identifies two issues, this copy belongs to the second with a cancel leaf on p. 7 correcting line 12: "I don't not eat bread..." For first issue it should read "I do not eat bread..."A noted difference is that in the second paragraph in chapter…

Title is as described by Stott for the first US ed., which is an inset. Most probably it is to accommodate the simultaneous Canadian edition.

Maugham revised the US edition of The Magician, the textual difference doesn't appear in other editions.

This must be the first book with which Maugham got himself into trouble. Aleister Crowley, the model of the infamous Oliver Haddo, was upset when he found himself portrayed so realistically in the novel. Though initially Maugham denied it, in a later…

The true first is the UK edition published by Heinemann in 1907. For some reason the price is sky high for this lesser work. The novel was based on the play in the same name, written in 1899 (Stott 50). An interesting fact that I got from the seller…

Maugham mentions the novel in The Summing Up as one of his experiments: I tried various experiments. One of them at that time had a certain novelty. The experience of life I was forever eagerly seeking suggested to me that the novelist's method of…

From the front flap of the dust jacket: "Mr Somerset Maugham has written a Preface to this new edition of his second novel, Mrs. Craddock, which has not been in print for many years. "He wrote it in 1900, he explains, and because it was thought…