William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 - 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although this part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
Somerset Maugham died in Nice, France on December 16, 1965.
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meditations upon the oblation of Christ, and
admonitions to flee the vanities of the world.
Christ himself is more than all the wisdom of the
schools and lifts the ...