3.
Influence of modernism to the creative work of Somerset Maugham. Realism and naturalism in
his works. Somerset Maugham – a short story writer.
Somerset Maugham
was a British novelist, playwright, short-story writer, highest paid author in the
world in the 1930s.
He was born in Paris in 1874. His parents died when he was little, and the boy was brought up by his
uncle.
Maugham learned French as his native tongue. At the age of 10, Maugham was orphaned and sent
to England to live with his uncle. He qualified in 1897 as doctor from St. Thomas' medical school, but
abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and plays.
Maugham lived in Paris for ten years as a struggling young author. In 1897 appeared his first novel,
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