“Liza of Lambent
”, which drew on his experiences of treating the sick in the slums of the working-class
areas. It is a realistic novel, characterized by a powerful photographic portraiture of life, which shocked the
conventional tastes of the bourgeois readers. His first play,
“A Man of Honor”
, was produced in 1903. Four
of his dramas ran simultaneously in London in 1904. Somerset Maugham was a keen observer of life and
individuals. He has written twenty four plays, nineteen novels and a large number of short stories, in
addition to travel works and an autobiography. The mature period of Maugham's literary career began in
1915, when he published one of his most popular novels, "
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