"Maugham" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consider only stories by American authors, they could not but observe the increasing number of races represented through authorship. Some of the following names will be recognized from preceding years, some of them are new: Blasco Ibanez, W. Somerset Maugham, May Sinclair, Mrs. Henry Dudeney, Mary Butts, Frank Swinnerton, Georges Clemenceau, Johan Bojer, H. Soederberg, Seumas Macmanus, R. Sabatini, Demetra Vaka, Achmed Abdullah, Rabindranath Tagore, A. Remizov, Konrad ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... Lenin and Zinoviev up from Switzerland, where they'd been in exile, by a sealed train in hopes of starting a revolution in Czarist Russia. The point I'm leading to is that in one of his books, 'The Summing Up,' I believe, Maugham mentions in passing that had he got to Petrograd possibly six weeks earlier he thinks he could have ...
— Revolution • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... Mr. SOMERSET MAUGHAM also claimed to be on the side of the home-birds. Had he not in Smith written a part of strong parlour-maid interest ...
— Punch, Volume 156, 26 March 1919 • Various |
