Prefatory Notes
Two things should be noted
immediately. Firstly, the number of Maugham's novels (A. 1.) is 20 if you
consider Up at the Villa (1940) a
novel, although it can well be viewed as a novella, or even as a longish short
story. Indeed, it fits best Maugham’s own description of short story. Secondly,
the books with essays (A. 4.) are nine because Great
Novelists and Their Novels (1948) is actually an early version of Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954). Since
Up at the Villa has (in my opinion,
not that of the critics, nor even that of many readers) principal characters as
vividly compelling as in any novel, and Ten
Novels and Their Authors is an expanded later version of Great Novelists and Their Novels but
not significantly different from it, I think the correct numbers are 20 novels
and nine volumes with essays. This makes for 41 books overall (section A), not
78 as often stated by people who don’t read their Stott carefully – or, more
probably, have never heard of him. Since Maugham’s plays are very important
contribution to his literary output, but it is hardly acceptable to count them
as separate books, one is apt to round the number of books to 44 including the
three volumes of The Collected Plays
although they contain only 18 plays (of 26 published, not counting several
completely written that remained unpublished).
It should also be noted that
Somerset Maugham’s contribution to periodicals or books of others (prefaces,
introductions and the like) is significant. A solid proof about that is the
invaluable for every real admirer of the great writer book A Traveller in Romance (1984). In this volume, John Whitehead collected
and introduced 65 pieces spanning 63 years of Maugham’s life which had not been
published in any of his books until then: magazine articles, prefaces and
introductions to books by others, curtain-raisers, even a few short stories.
Speaking of posthumously
published books and short stories, Seventeen
Lost Stories (1969) must be mentioned. Compiled and introduced by Craig Showalter,
in addition to the six short stories that comprised Maugham’s first collection,
Orientations (1899), and were never
reprinted later during his life, it contains 11 stories more that were
published in various magazines until 1908 but had never appeared in book form
until 1969. All in all, the total number of Maugham's short stories swells to
109, if we consider “A Marriage of Convenience”, “Cousin Amy/The Luncheon” and “The
Happy Couple” as three stories, although each of them exists in two rather different
versions: early one included in Seventeen
Lost Stories and significantly rewritten later one included in The Complete Short Stories (1951).
As far as I am aware, there are
only two other Maugham’s stories that exist in two versions: “The Mother” and
“A Man from Glasgow Glasgow
It is also worth noting that
seven pieces from The Complete Short
Stories (1951) were originally published in book form, not in a short story
collection, but in Maugham’s two mature travel books, On a Chinese Screen (1922) and The
Gentleman in the Parlour (1930). These are “The Taipan”, “The Consul”;
“Mabel”, “Masterson”, “Princess September”, “A Marriage of Convenience” (late
version) and “Mirage”. The first two appeared in On a Chinese Screen under these titles. The last five appeared in The Gentleman in the Parlour as chapters
VI, X, XXXII, XXXIV and XLIII, respectively. Keep in mind that many of these
“travel stories” were also published in periodicals, often prior to their first
appearance in book form and under different titles.
The aforementioned 109 pieces
are distributed as follows:
- The Complete
Short Stories (1951) – 91 short stories (84 pieces from all
collections but Orientations
plus 7 pieces from the travel books);
- Seventeen
Lost Stories (1969) – 14 short stories, excluding the three
aforementioned “dual” ones;
- A Traveller
in Romance (1984) – 4 short stories.
Or in purely mathematical
form: 91 + 14 + 4 = 109
Recently, and amazingly,
three new short stories, never collected in book form so far, have been
discovered:
·
''A Really Nice Story: A Short Tale'', Black & White, Nov. 30, 1901, pp.
768-769;
·
''The Image of the Virgin: A Short Story'', Black & White, Dec. 14, 1901, pp.
840-842;
·
''The Criminal'', Lloyd's
Weekly News, July 31, 1904, p. 14.
Two further notes on the
short stories.
Firstly, almost all of them
were first published in magazines and often underwent a certain amount of
revision before their first appearance in book form. For my own part, I am
completely satisfied with Maugham’s final versions in his books and therefore I
am inclined to exclude from this bibliography all magazine short stories (or
any other pieces, for that matter) that appeared in book form later, during
Maugham's life or afterwards.
Secondly, the listing of the
numerous volumes with random selections of Maugham's short stories published
through the years most certainly is beyond the scope of the present bibliography.
Moreover, it is quite pointless since all these contain material that can be
found word for word in earlier editions.
For further details on
Maugham’s short stories, see A Bibliography of the Short Fiction.
For the very same reason, all
more or less identical editions of any book by Maugham have been omitted except
the following:
· first English and
American editions;
· later editions
with new preface or any other changes by Maugham himself or any other writer of
some importance;
· at least one
modern paperback edition (usually the Vintage Classics' handsome one) that is
currently in print or has not long since been out of print and can still be
obtained easily.
In addition, two pamphlets
must be mentioned, namely Of Human
Bondage, with a Digression on the Art of Fiction: An address (1946) and The Writer's Point of View (1951). The
former is an address given by Maugham on 20th of April 1946 in Coolidge
Auditorium, The Library of Congress, on the occasion of his presenting the
original manuscript of Of Human Bondage
to the Library of Congress; and the latter is actually the Ninth Annual Lecture
of National Book League given by Maugham in Kingsway Hall on 24th of October
1951. Despite many repetitions with his other non-fiction works – Maugham
constantly repeated himself and very often confessed it openly – these
pamphlets contain some interesting points that are not to be found in any other
of his writings.
Several of his short stories
also appeared separately as pamphlets – The
Judgement Seat (1934), Princess
September and The Nightingale (1939, more of a fairy tale actually, later
retitled “Princess September” in The
Complete Short Stories) and The
Unconquered (1944), for instance – but they have all appeared in book form
as well. So has the little article My
South Sea Island (1936), in A Traveller
in Romance (1984); and so have all ten stories from the books Quartet (1948), Trio (1950) and Encore
(1952): these also contain screenplays based upon them but Maugham apparently
took little part in their writing. Although these three books do also contain a
few introductions that Maugham spoke on the screen in the three movies with the
same names, they are too short for the books to be included in a bibliography
that aims at completeness but tries to minimize repetitions. All aforementioned
pamphlets but the two in the previous paragraph should also be omitted in such
an endeavour.
Finally, Maugham's activity
as a reader, rather than as a writer, should be mentioned. He himself compiled
no fewer than four anthologies of fiction and non-fiction. They all contain
absorbing original introductions (in two of the cases he added extensive notes
as well) and certainly should be listed in a bibliography. It is worth noting
that Maugham himself also wrote a number of fascinating prefaces, with a great
deal of important bibliographical and biographical information despite some
repetitions, for later editions of his own works, most notably Heinemann’s
great series known as The Collected
Edition and published between 1934 and 1969.
Enough prefatory notes for
now.
=====ABRIDGED
VERSION=====
A.
BOOKS BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
A.
1. NOVELS
A.
1. 1. Liza of Lambeth, 1897
A.
1. 2. The Making of a Saint, 1898
A.
1. 3. The Hero, 1901
A.
1. 4. Mrs. Craddock, 1902
A.
1. 5. The Merry-Go-Round, 1904
A.
1. 6. The Bishop's Apron, 1906
A.
1. 7. The Explorer, 1907
A.
1. 8. The Magician, 1908
A.
1. 9. Of Human Bondage, 1915
A.
1. 10. The Moon and Sixpence, 1919
A.
1. 11. The Painted Veil, 1925
A.
1. 12. Cakes and Ale, 1930
A.
1. 13. The Narrow Corner, 1932
A.
1. 14. Theatre, 1937
A.
1. 15. Christmas Holiday , 1939
A.
1. 16. Up at the Villa, 1941
A.
1. 17. The Hour Before the Dawn, 1942
A.
1. 18. The Razor's Edge, 1944
A.
1. 19. Then and Now, 1946
A.
1. 20. Catalina, 1948
A.
2. SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
A.
2. 1. Orientations, 1899
A.
2. 2. The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921
A.
2. 3. The Casuarina Tree, 1926
A.
2. 4. Ashenden, 1928
A.
2. 5. First Person Singular, 1931
A.
2. 6. Ah King, 1933
A.
2. 7. Cosmopolitans, 1936
A.
2. 8. The Mixture as Before, 1940
A.
2. 9. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947
A.
3. TRAVEL BOOKS
A.
3. 1. The Land of the Blessed Virgin, 1905
A.
3. 2. On a Chinese Screen, 1922
A.
3. 3. The Gentleman in the Parlour, 1930
A.
4. ESSAYS
A.
4. 1. Don Fernando, 1935
A.
4. 2. The Summing Up, 1938
A.
4. 3. France
A.
4. 4. Books and You, 1940
A.
4. 5. Strictly Personal, 1941
A.
4. 6. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948
A.
4. 6a. Ten Novels and Their Authors, 1954
A.
4. 7. A Writer's Notebook, 1948
A.
4. 8. The Vagrant Mood, 1952
A.
4. 9. Points of View, 1958
B.
PLAYS BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (year of writing)
B.
1. Marriages are made in Heaven (1896-97)
B.
2. Mademoiselle Zampa (1896-97)
B.
3. A Man of Honour (1898/rev. 1902)
B.
4. The Explorer (1899)
B.
5. Loaves and Fishes (1902)
B.
6. Lady Frederick (1903)
B.
7. Mrs. Dot (1904)
B.
8. Jack Straw (1907)
B.
9. Penelope (1908)
B.
10. The Tenth Man (1909)
B.
11. Smith (1909)
B.
12. Landed Gentry (1910)
B.
13. The Land of Promise
B.
14. The Unattainable (1915)
B.
15. Our Betters (1915)
B.
16. Love in the Cottage (1917)
B.
17. Caesar's Wife (1918)
B.
18. Home and Beauty (1919)
B.
19. The Circle (1919)
B.
20. The Unknown (1920)
B.
21. East of Suez
B.
22. The Camel's Back (1923)
B.
23. The Road Uphill (1924)
B.
24. The Constant Wife (1926)
B.
25. The Letter (1927)
B.
26. The Sacred Flame (1928)
B.
27. The Bread-Winner (1930)
B.
28. For Services Rendered (1932)
B.
29. Sheppey (1932)
C.
POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOKS BY W. SOMERSET
MAUGHAM
C.
1. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969
C.
2. A Traveller in Romance, 1984
D.
PAMPHLETS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS BY OTHERS BY W.
SOMERSET MAUGHAM
D.
1. My Favorite Story, 1928
D.
2. How Writers Write: Essays by Contemporary Authors
D.
3. The Harvest, MCMXXXVII
D.
4. Wisdom of Life: An Anthology of Noble Thoughts
D.
5. A Number of People by Sir Edward Marsh
D.
6. An Appeal for the Hospitals, 1941
D.
7. Modern English Readings
D.
8. The English Spirit, 1942
D.
9. The Magician by Frank Bruno, 1944
D.
10. Paul Gauguin by Raymond Cogniat, April 1946
D.
11. Of Human Bondage, with a Digression on the Art of Fiction: An address, 1946
D.
12. Writing for Love or Money by Norman Cousins, Ed.
D.
13. Essays by Divers Hands, MCML
D.
14. The Writer's Point of View, 1951
D.
15. Robert Ross: Friend of Friends by Margery Ross
D.
16. Speech by W. Somerset Maugham
D.
17. The Cassell Miscellany, 1958
D.
18. Purely for My Pleasure, 1962
E.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS BY W. SOMERSET
MAUGHAM
E.
0. 1. ''A Really Nice Story: A Short Tale'', 1901.
E.
0. 2. ''The Image of the Virgin: A Short Story'', 1901.
E.
0. 3. ''The Criminal'', 1904.
E.
1. The Mother, April 1909
E.
2. The Woman Who Wouldn't Take a Hint, April 1924
E.
3. Advice to a Young Author, 2 March 1927
E.
4. Through the Jungle, July and August 1929
E.
5. Maugham Discusses Drama, May 1931
E.
6. How I Write Short Stories, 28 July 1934
E.
7. W. Somerset Maugham discusses the Cinema,
November 19, 1938
E.
8. The Professional Writer, 29 January 1938
E.
9. Give Me a Murder, 28 December 1940
E.
10. What Tomorrow Holds, January 1941
E.
11. They are Strange People, February 1941
E.
12. In Defence of Who-done-its, 25 May 1945
E.
13. Function of the Writer, 25 May 1946
E.
14. What Should a Novel Do?, 3 March 1947
E.
15. Ten Best Sellers, September 1948
E.
16. I'm Glad To Be Old, April 1951
E.
17. The Bidding Started Slowly, June 1952
E.
18. On the Approach of Middle Age, 15 November 1960
E.
19. Looking Back, June-August 1962
E.
20. The Wisdom of W. S. Maugham, January 1966
F.
IMPORTANT COLLECTED EDITIONS OF WORKS BY W. SOMERSET
MAUGHAM
F.
1. The Complete Short Stories, 1951, 3 vols.
F.
2. The Complete Short Stories, 1952, 2 vols.
F.
3. The Collected Plays, 1952, 3 vols.
F.
4. The Selected Novels, 1953, 3 vols.
F.
5. The Partial View, 1954
F.
6. The Travel Books, 1955
F.
7. Selected Prefaces and Introductions, 1963
F.
8. Collected Short Stories, 1963, 4 vols.
F.
9. The Maugham Reader, 1950
F.
10. Mr. Maugham Himself, 1954
G.
THE COLLECTED EDITION OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
G.
1. Liza of Lambeth (1934, New Preface)
G.
2. Cakes and Ale (1934, New Preface)
G.
3. The Narrow Corner (1934, New Preface)
G.
4. The Painted Veil (1934, New Preface)
G.
5. Ashenden (1934, New Preface)
G.
6. On a Chinese Screen (1935, New Preface)
G.
7. The Gentleman in the Parlour (1935, New Preface)
G.
8. The Moon and Sixpence (1935, New Preface)
G.
9. The Trembling of a Leaf (1935, New Preface)
G.
10. The Casuarina Tree (1935, the original preface!)
G.
11. Ah King (1936, New Preface)
G.
12. First Person Singular (1936, New Preface)
G.
13. Of Human Bondage (1937)
G.
14. Mrs Craddock (1937)
G.
15. Don Fernando (1937)
G.
16. Cosmopolitans (1938, the original Preface!)
G.
17. Theatre (1939, New Preface)
G.
18. Christmas Holiday (1941)
G.
19. The Summing Up (1948)
G.
20. The Razor's Edge (1948)
G.
21. Catalina (1948)
G.
22. Creatures of Circumstance (1950)
G.
23. A Writer's Notebook (1951)
G.
24. The Magician (1956, New Preface)
G.
25. Then and Now (1959)
G.
26. Up At the Villa (????)
G.
27. The Explorer (1967)
G.
28. Merry-Go-Round (1969)
H.
BOOKS EDITED BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
H.
1. The Traveller's Library, 1933
H.
2. Tellers of Tales, 1939
H.
3. Great Modern Reading
H.
4. The Ten Best Novels in the World, 1948-49, 10 vols.
H.
5. A Choice of Kipling's Prose, 1952
=====FULL
VERSION=====
A:
BOOKS BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
A.
1. NOVELS
A. 1. 1. Liza of Lambeth. See F. 4.
A. 1. 1. 1. T. Fisher Unwin,
1897. First Edition.
A. 1. 1. 2. Doran, 1921.
First American Edition.
A. 1. 1. 3. Heinemann, 1930.
Travellers' Library Edition. New 6pp Preface.
A. 1. 1. 4. Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 21pp preface,
expanded from 1930. Reprinted in 1950 and 1951.
A. 1. 1. 5. Heinemann, 1947.
Jubilee Edition of 1000 copies signed by Maugham. New Preface, short and not
altogether important. Contains also the part of the preface to The Collected Edition that concerns the
novel.
A. 1. 1. 6. Vintage Classics,
2000. Contains the full 1934 preface.
A. 1. 2. The Making of a Saint.
A. 1. 2. 1. L.C.Page, 1898.
First Edition.
A. 1. 2. 2. T. Fisher Unwin,
1898. First English Edition.
A. 1. 2. 3. Kessinger
Publishing, 2008. Reprint of an illustrated American edition from 1922.
A. 1. 3. The Hero.
A. 1. 3. 1. Hutchinson
A. 1. 3. 2. Kessinger
Publishing, 2000. Apparently reprint of the First Edition. Very poor.
A. 1. 3. 3. Norilana Press,
2008. A much better reprint than A. 1. 3. 2.
A. 1. 4. Mrs. Craddock. See the entry in Norman Moore's collection.
A. 1. 4. 1. Heinemann, 1902.
First Edition. Censored.
A. 1. 4. 2. Doran, 1920.
First American Edition. Most probably contains the same omissions as the First Edition.
A. 1. 4. 3. Heinemann/Doubleday Doran, 1928.
Restored and Revised Edition published from the original manuscript. New Preface. Not in Stott.
A. 1. 4. 4. Heinemann, 1937. The Collected Edition. Revisions and
Preface from 1928.
A. 1. 4. 5. Heinemann, 1955. Preface revised and expanded from the 1928 edition. Revisions from 1928. See Stott A5, p. 34, for comparison of some passages between the First and the Revised editions.
A. 1. 4. 6. Vintage Classics,
2000. Revisions from 1928. Preface from 1955.
A.
1. 5. The Merry-Go-Round.
A.
1. 5. 1. Heinemann, 1904. First Edition.
A. 1. 5. 2. Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904. American Copyright issue, lodged with the Library of Congress (not for sale). Contains Chapter 1 from Part I and Chapters 1 and 15 from Part II. "Only parts of the chapters are printed, but sufficient to comply with the requirements of American copyright." See Stott A7.
A. 1. 5. 2. Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904. American Copyright issue, lodged with the Library of Congress (not for sale). Contains Chapter 1 from Part I and Chapters 1 and 15 from Part II. "Only parts of the chapters are printed, but sufficient to comply with the requirements of American copyright." See Stott A7.
A.
1. 5. 3. Vintage Classics, 2000.
A.
1. 6. The Bishop's Apron. See B. 5. No modern edition.
A.
1. 6. 1. Chapman and Hall, 1906. First Edition.
A.
1. 7. The Explorer. See B. 4.
A.
1. 7. 1. Heinemann, 1908. First Edition.
A.
1. 7. 2. Baker & Taylor, 1909. First American Edition.
A.
1. 7. 3. Heron, 1969. Together with The
Land of the Blessed Virgin See A. 3. 1.
A.
1. 7. 4. Aegipian Press, 2000. A truly piratical paperback indeed!
A. 1. 8. The Magician.
A. 1. 8. 1. Heinemann, 1908.
First Edition.
A. 1. 8. 2. Heinemann, 1956. The Collected Edition. Contains "A
Fragment of Autobiography".
A. 1. 8. 3. Vintage Classics,
2000. Contains "A Fragment of Autobiography".
A. 1. 9. Of Human Bondage.
A. 1. 9. 1. George H. Doran,
1915. First Edition.
A. 1. 9. 2. Heinemann, 1915.
First English Edition.
A. 1. 9. 3. Heinemann, 1934.
New Edition (reset). Contains new introduction titled “Instead of a Preface”
featuring a Letter from a 16 years old Admirer and a Frontispiece portrait of
the Author by Gerald Kelly.
A. 1. 9. 4. Doubleday Doran,
1936. First Illustrated Edition. New 3pp Foreword. Illustrated by Randolph England
A. 1. 9. 5. Heinemann, 1937. The Collected Edition. Reprinted in
1942, 1948 and 1951. Contains the 1934 “Instead of a Preface”. See A. 1. 9. 3.
A. 1. 9. 6. Pocket books,
1950. Abridged and with New Introduction by the author. Reprinted in 1963 as
Giant Cardinal Edition.
A. 1. 9. 7. Modern Library,
1999. Contains the 1936 Foreword. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Commentaries by
Theodore Dreiser and Graham Greene.
A. 1. 9. 8. Vintage Classics,
2000. Contains the 1936 Foreword. See A. 1. 9. 4.
A. 1. 10. The Moon and Sixpence. See F. 4.*
A. 1. 10. 1. Heinemann, 1919.
First Edition.
A. 1. 10. 2. George H. Doran,
1919. First American Edition.
A. 1. 10. 3. Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
Reprinted in 1937, 1948, 1951 and 1962.
A. 1. 10. 4. Vintage Classics,
1999. Contains no preface at all!
*The part of the preface to vol. 2 of The Selected Novels dealing with The Moon and Sixpence is just a shortened version of the preface
written in 1935 for The Collected Edition.
A.
1. 11. The Painted Veil. See F. 4.*
A.
1. 11. 1. George H. Doran, 1925. First Edition.
A.
1. 11. 2. Heinemann, 1925. First English Edition.
A.
1. 11. 3. Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 5pp Preface. Reprinted in 1949, 1951 and 1963.
A.
1. 11. 4. Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the 1934 Preface.
*The part of the preface to vol.
2 of The Selected Novels dealing with
The Painted Veil is just a shortened
version of the preface written in 1934 for The
Collected Edition.
A. 1. 12. Cakes and Ale. See F. 4.*
A. 1. 12. 1. Heinemann, 1930.
First Edition.
A. 1. 12. 2. Doubleday Doran, 1930.
First American Edition.
A. 1. 12. 3. Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 6pp Preface.
Reprinted in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1950 and 1952.
A. 1. 12. 4. Modern Library,
1950. New Preface. Here comes the notorious “confession” of Maugham that he had
in mind Hugh Walpole when he created the character of Roy
A. 1. 12. 5. Vintage Classics,
2000. Contains the 1934 Preface.
*The part of the preface to vol.
1 of The Selected Novels dealing with
Cakes and Ale is just a shortened
version of the preface written in 1950 for the Modern Library edition.
A. 1. 13. The Narrow Corner. See F. 4.*
A. 1. 13. 1. Heinemann, 1932.
First Edition.
A. 1. 13. 2. Doubleday Doran,
1932. First American Edition.
A. 1. 13. 3. Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
Reprinted in 1963.
A. 1. 13. 4. Vintage Classics,
2001. Contains the 1934 preface.
*The part of the preface to Vol. 2 of The Selected Novels dealing with The Narrow Corner is just a shortened version of the preface
written in 1934 for The Collected Edition,
but it does contain a few unique touches.
A. 1. 14. Theatre. See F. 4.*
A. 1. 14. 1. Doubleday Doran,
1937. First Edition.
A. 1. 14. 2. Heinemann, 1937.
First English Edition.
A. 1. 14. 3. Heinemann, 1939. The Collected Edition. New 7pp Preface.
A. 1. 14. 4. Vintage Classics,
2000. Contains the 1939 Preface.
*The part of the preface to vol.
1 of The Selected Novels dealing with
Theatre is just a shortened version
of the preface written in 1939 for The
Collected Edition.
A.
1. 15. Christmas Holiday . See F. 4.*
A.
1. 15. 1. Heinemann, 1939. First Edition.
A.
1. 15. 2. Doubleday Doran, 1939. First American Edition.
A.
1. 15. 3. Heinemann, 1941. The Collected
Edition. Reprinted in 1951 and 1989.
A.
1. 15. 4. Vintage Classics, 2001.
*To the best of my belief,
the part of the preface to vol. 3 of The
Selected Novels dealing with Christmas
Holiday is the only place where Maugham mentioned something about the
origins of that novel.
A.
1. 16. Up at the Villa. See F. 4.*
A.
1. 16. 1. Doubleday Doran, 1941. First Edition.
A.
1. 16. 1. Heinemann, 1941. First English Edition.
A.
1. 16. 1. Vintage Classics, 2004.
*To the best of my belief,
the part of the preface to vol. 3 of The
Selected Novels dealing with Up at
the Villa is the only place where Maugham mentioned something about the
origins of that novel.
A.
1. 17. The Hour Before the Dawn. No English Edition.
A.
1. 17. 1. Doubleday Doran, 1942. First Edition.
A.
1. 17. 2. Angus and Robertson, 1945. First Australian Edition.
A.
1. 18. The Razor's Edge. See F. 4.*
A.
1. 18. 1. Doubleday Doran, 1944. First Edition.
A.
1. 18. 2. Heinemann, 1944. First English Edition.
A.
1. 18. 3. Heinemann, 1948. The Collected
Edition. Reprinted in 1967.
A.
1. 18. 4. Vintage Classics, 2000.
*To the best of my belief,
the part of the preface to vol. 3 of The
Selected Novels dealing with The
Razor's Edge is the only place where Maugham mentioned something about the
origins of that novel.
A.
1. 19. Then and Now.
A.
1. 19. 1. Heinemann, 1946. First Edition.
A.
1. 19. 2. Doubleday, 1946. First American Edition.
A.
1. 19. 3. Vintage Classics, 2001.
A.
1. 20. Catalina.
A.
1. 20. 1. Heinemann, 1948. First Edition.
A.
1. 20. 2. Doubleday, 1948. First American Edition.
A.
1. 20. 3. Vintage Classics, 2001.
A.
2. SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
[first published in magazine
under alternative title, if any]
A.
2. 1. Orientations.
A.
2. 1. 1. T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First Edition. No American Edition.
6 Short Stories. See C. 1.
Contents:
A Bad Example [never
published in magazine]
Daisy [never published in
magazine]
De Amicitia [never published
in magazine]
Faith [never published in
magazine]
The Choice of Amyntas [never
published in magazine]
The Punctiliousness of Don
Sebastian [1898, as “Don Sebastian”*]
* Maugham's first published
short story ever. He claimed that “A Bad Example” and “Daisy” were the first
short stories he ever wrote when he was 18 years old.
A.
2. 2. The Trembling of a Leaf. Little Stories from the South
Sea Islands .
A.
2. 2. 1. George H. Doran, 1921. First Edition.
A.
2. 2. 2. Heinemann, 1921. First English Edition.
A.
2. 2. 3. Heinemann, 1935. The Collected
Edition. New 4pp Preface.
A.
2. 2. 4. Heron, 1968. Contains the 1935 Preface.
6 short stories together with
two short pieces as an introduction and an epilogue.
Contents:
I. The Pacific [Introduction]
II. Mackintosh [1920]
III. The Fall of Edward
Barnard [1921]
IV. Red [1921]
V. The Pool [1921]
VI. Honolulu [1921]
VII. Rain [1921, as “Miss
Thompson”]
VIII. Envoi [Epilogue]
A. 2. 3. The Casuarina Tree.
A. 2. 3. 1. Heinemann, 1926.
First Edition.
A. 2. 3. 2. George H. Doran,
1926. First American Edition.
A. 2. 3. 3. Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. The Original
Preface. Reprinted in 1953.
6 short stories + original preface and Postscript.
Contents:
The Casuarina Tree [preface]
The Letter [1924]
Before the Party [1923]
P. & O. [1923, as “Bewitched”]
The Outstation [1924]
The Force of Circumstance
[1924]
The Yellow Streak [1925]
Postscript
A. 2. 4. Ashenden. Or the
British Agent.
A. 2. 4. 1. Heinemann, 1928.
First Edition.
A. 2. 4. 2. Doubleday Doran,
1928. First American Edition.
A. 2. 4. 2. Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 6pp Preface.
Reprinted in 1948.
A. 2. 4. 2. Doubleday Doran,
1941. New 7pp Preface. Slightly expanded from the 1934 Preface.
A. 2. 4. 2. Vintage Classics,
2000. Contains the 1934 Preface.
Contains 16 chapters. 15 of them later merged into six short stories.
Contents:
1. R. – 2. A Domiciliary Visit – 3. Miss King – 4. The Hairless Mexican –
5. The Dark Woman – 6. The Greek – 7. A Trip to Paris
Chapters 1 to 3 later merged
into “Miss King”
Chapters 4 to 6 later merged
into “The Hairless Mexican”
Chapters 7 and 8 later merged
into “Giulia Lazzari”
Chapters 9 and 10 later
merged into “The Traitor”
Chapters 11 and 12 later
merged in “His Excellency”
Chapters 14 to 16 later
merged into “Mr. Harrington's Washing”
A.
2. 5. Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular.
A.
2. 5. 1. Doubleday Doran, 1931. First Edition.
A.
2. 5. 2. Heinemann, 1931. First English Edition.
A.
2. 5. 3. Heinemann, 1936. The Collected
Edition. New 5pp Preface.
6 short stories. Original
preface without title.
Contents:
[Preface]
Virtue [1931]
The Round Dozen [1923]
The Human Element [1930]
Jane [1923]
The Alien Corn [1931]
The Creative Impulse [1926]
A. 2. 6. Ah King.
A. 2. 6. 1. Heinemann, 1933.
First Edition.
A. 2. 6. 2. Doubleday Doran,
1933. First American Edition.
A. 2. 6. 3. Heinemann, 1936. The Collected Edition. New 6pp. Preface,
greatly expanded from the original one.
6 short stories. Original preface.
Contents:
Ah King [preface]
Footprints in the Jungle [1927]
The Door of Opportunity [1931]
The Vessel of Wrath [1931]
The Book-Bag [never published
in magazine*]
The Back of Beyond [1931, as “The Right Thing is the Kind Thing”]
Neil Macadam [1932, as “The
Temptation of Neil MacAdam”]
*Ray Long was compelled to
turn down this brilliant short story since its plot is concerned with incest;
although Maugham does not mention the word even once, the short story was
considered too scandalous for the pages of Cosmopolitan.
Ray Long, however, did publish the story in a book form after all; it was
included in a volume with his favourite short stories subtitled 20 Best Short Stories in Ray Long's 20 Years
as an Editor. He named the book The
Book-Bag.
A.
2. 7. Cosmopolitans.
A.
2. 7. 1. Doubleday Doran, 1936. First Edition.
A.
2. 7. 2. Heinemann, 1936. First English Edition.
A.
2. 7. 3. Heinemann, 1938. The Collected
Edition. The Original Preface.
29 short stories. Original
Preface.
Contents:
Preface
Raw Material [1923, as “The Impostors”]
Mayhew [1923]
German Harry [1924]
The Happy Man [1924]
The Dream [1924]
In a Strange Land [1924]
The Luncheon* [1924]
Salvatore [1924, as “Salvatore
the Fisherman”]
Home [1924, as “Home from the
Sea”]
Mr. Know-All [1925]
The Escape [1925, as “The
Widow's Might”]
A Friend in Need [1925, as “The
Man Who Wouldn't Hurt a Fly”]
The Portrait of a Gentleman
[1925, as “The Code of a Gentleman”]
The End of the Flight [1926]
The Judgement Seat [never
published in magazine]
The Ant and the Grasshopper
[1924]
French Joe [1926, as “Another
Man Without a Country”]
The Man with the Scar [1925]
The Poet [1925, as “The Great
Man”]
Louise [1925, as “The Most
Selfish Woman I Ever Knew”]
The Closed Shop [1926]
The Promise [1925, as “An
Honest Woman”]
A String of Beads [1927, as “Pearls”]
The Bum [1929, as “A Derelict”]
Straight Flush [1929]
The Verger [1929, as “The Man
Who Made His Mark”]
The Wash
The Social Sense [1929, as “The
Extraordinary Sex”]
The Four Dutchmen [1928]
*Significantly rewritten
version of “Cousin Amy” which was first published in magazine in 1908 but had
to wait more than 60 years to appear in book form: Seventeen Lost Stories (1969). See C. 1.
A.
2. 8. The Mixture as Before.
A.
2. 8. 1. Heinemann, 1940. First Edition.
A.
2. 8. 2. Doubleday Doran, 1940. First American Edition.
10 short stories. Original
Foreword.
Contents:
Foreword
A Man with a Conscience
[1939]
The Treasure [1934, as "The
Best Ever"]
The Lotus Eater [1935]
The Lion's Skin [1937]
Lord Mountdrago [1939, as “Doctor
and Patient”]
Gigolo and Gigolette [1935]
The Voice of the Turtle
[1935]
An Official Position [1937]
The Facts of Life [1939]
A.
2. 9. Creatures of Circumstance.
A.
2. 9. 1. Heinemann, 1947. First Edition.
A.
2. 9. 2. Doubleday, 1947. First American Edition.
15 short stories. Original
preface “The Author Excuses Himself”.
Contents:
The Author Excuses Himself [preface]
The Colonel's Lady [1946]
Flotsam and Jetsam [1940]
Appearance and Reality [1934]
The Mother* [1909]
Sanatorium [1938]
A Woman of Fifty [1946]
The Romantic Young Lady
[1947]
A Casual Affair [1934]
The Point of Honour [1947]
Winter Cruise [1943, as “The
Captain and Miss Reid”]
The Happy Couple** [1943]
A Man from Glasgow
The Unconquered [1943]
Episode [1947]
The Kite [never published in
magazine]
*This appears to be one of
the very few cases when Maugham was satisfied with an early work of his. “The
Mother” was first published in Story
Teller for April, 1909; nearly 40 years later it was only slightly revised
for its inclusion in Creatures of
Circumstance (1947). The early version was reprinted in magazine on same
year (Liberty, 26 April 1947, not in Stott) and first appeared in book form 11 years later, The Cassell Miscellany (1958). See also D. 17. and E. 1.
**First published in Cassell's Magazine in 1908 but later
significantly rewritten. The later version appeared in Redbook (February, 1943) and in Creatures
of Circumstance four years later. The early version is reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories (1969); see C. 2.
***The early version is
reprinted in The Ash-Tree Press Annual
Macabre 1998, ed. Jack Adrian. It was only slightly revised for its first
inclusion in book form some 40 years later; only the second such case after
“The Mother”.
A.
3. TRAVEL BOOKS
A. 3. 1. The Land of the
Blessed Virgin. Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia .
A. 3. 1. 1. Heinemann, 1904.
First Edition.
A. 3. 1. 2. Knopf, 1920.
First American Edition. Second edition from the same year retitled Andalusia .
A. 3. 1. 3. Heron, 1968.
Together with The Explorer. See A. 1.
7.
A. 3. 1. 4. Kessinger Publishing,
2000. Reprint of thr Heinemann edition from 1905.
A. 3. 2. On a Chinese Screen. 58 short
sketches. See F. 6.
A. 3. 2. 1. George H. Doran,
1922. First American Edition.
A. 3. 2. 2. Heinemann, 1922.
First English Edition.
A. 3. 2. 3. Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
Reprinted in 1953, 1957, 1962 and 1969.
A. 3. 2. 4. Vintage Classics,
2000. Contains no preface at all!
Contents:
I The Rising of the Curtain –
II My Lady's Parlour – III The Mongol Chief – IV The Rolling Stone – V The
Cabinet Minister – VI Dinner Parties – VII The Altar of Heaven – VIII The
Servants of God – IX The Inn – X The Glory Hole – XI Fear – XII The Picture –
XIII His Britannic Majesty's Representative – XIV The Opium Den – XV The Last
Chance – XVI The Nun – XVII Henderson – XVIII Dawn – XIX The Point of Honour –
XX The Beast of Burden – XXI Dr Macalister – XXII The Road – XXIII God's Truth –
XXIV Romance – XXV The Grand Style – XXVI Rain – XXVII Sullivan – XXVIII The
Dining-Room – XXIX Arabesque – XXX The Consul* – XXXI The Stripling – XXXII The
Fannings – XXXIII The Song of the River – XXXIV Mirage – XXXV The Stranger –
XXXVI Democracy – XXXVII The Seventh Day Adventist – XXXVIII The Philosopher –
XXXIX The Missionary Lady – XL A Game of Billiards – XLI The Skipper – XLII The
Sights of the Town – XLIII Nightfall – XLIV The Normal Man – XLV The Old Timer –
XLVI The Plain – XLVII Failure – XLVIII A Student of the Drama – XLIX The Taipan* – L Metempsychosis – LI The Fragment – LII One of the Best – LIII The
Sea-Dog – LIV The Question – LV The Sinologue – LVI The Vice-Consul – LVII A
City Built on a Rock – LVIII A Libation to the Gods
*Later published under the
same titles in The Complete Short Stories
(1951), see F. 1.
A.
3. 3. The Gentleman in the Parlour. A Record of a Journey From Rangoon to Haiphong
A.
3. 3. 1. Heinemann, 1930. First Edition.
A.
3. 3. 2. Doubleday Doran, 1930. First American Edition.
A.
3. 3. 3. Heinemann, 1935. The Collected
Edition. New 4pp Preface.
A.
3. 3. 4. Vintage Classics, 2001. Contains the 1935 Preface.
Five chapters were published
in The Complete Short Stories (F. 1.)
under different names as follows:
Chapter VI – “Mabel”.
Chapter X – “Masterson”.
Chapter XXXII – “Princess September”.
Chapter XXXIV – “A Marriage of Convenience”.
Chapter XLIII – “Mirage”.
The last but one is of course
a rewritten version of the early short story with the same name that is
reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories
(1969); see C. 1. In magazines “Masterson” and “Princess September” were
published as “On the Road to Mandalay
“Mirage”, “Princess September”
and “A Marriage of Convenience” also appeared as “The Opium Addict”, “September's
Bird” and “The French Governor”, respectively, in a volume titled The Maugham Reader (1950); see F. 9.
[Thank you, Daniel! :-)]
A.
4. NON-FICTION
A.
4. 1. Don Fernando. See F. 6.
A.
4. 1. 1. Heinemann, 1935. First Edition
A.
4. 1. 2. Doubleday Doran, 1935. First American Edition.
A.
4. 1. 3. Heinemann, 1937. The Collected
Edition.
A.
4. 1. 4. Heinemann, 1950. Revised Edition. Contains new “Author's Note” as a
preface. One of the very few examples when Maugham was able to profit from his
critics and revise a book in order to improve it.
A.
4. 1. 5. Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the revisions and the “Author's Note”
from 1950.
A.
4. 2. The Summing Up. See F. 5.
A.
4. 2. 1. Heinemann, 1938. First Edition.
A.
4. 2. 1. Doubleday Doran, 1938. First American Edition.
A.
4. 2. 1. Vintage Classics, 2001.
A.
4. 3. France
A.
4. 3. 1. Heinemann, 1940. First Edition. Paperback.
A.
4. 3. 2. Doubleday Doran, 1940. First American Edition.
A.
4. 4. Books and You.
A.
4. 4. 1. Heinemann, 1940. First Edition.
A.
4. 4. 2. Doubleday Doran, 1940. First American Edition.
Original Preface. Otherwise
this book consists of three magazine articles with reading recommendations
collected together. Originally appeared in The
Saturday Evening Post as “Books and You” (4 February 1939), “You and Some
More Books” (11 March 1939) and “The Classic Books of America” (6 January
1940). The book was published in March 1940.
A.
4. 5. Strictly Personal. Little anti-propaganda book.
A.
4. 5. 1. Doubleday Doran, 1941. First Edition.
A.
4. 5. 2. Heinemann, 1942. First English Edition. Contains a letter to Eddie
Marsh. Chapter 15 omitted due to censorship.
A.
4. 6. Great Novelists and Their Novels.
A.
4. 6. 1. Winston, 1948. First Edition.
Original introductory chapter
called “The Ten Best Novels of the World”. Contains collection of introductory
essays for “The Ten Best Novels in the World”; see H. 4. Illustrated with pen
and ink portraits of the authors by Robert W. Arnold.
A.
4. 6a. Ten Novels and Their Authors.
A.
4. 6a. 1. Heinemann, 1954. First Edition.
A. 4. 6a. 2. Doubleday, 1955. First American Edition, as The Art of Fiction: An Introduction to Ten Novels and Their Authors.
A. 4. 6a. 2. Doubleday, 1955. First American Edition, as The Art of Fiction: An Introduction to Ten Novels and Their Authors.
A.
4. 6a. 3. Vintage Classics, 2001.
Revised and expanded version
of A. 4. 6., including the introductory chapter, titled here “The Art of
Fiction”, and the postscript, titled “In Conclusion”. See also H. 4.
A.
4. 7. A Writer's Notebook. Maugham's notes, 1892-1949. Original Preface. See F.
5.
A.
4. 7. 1. Heinemann, 1949. First Edition.
A.
4. 7. 2. Doubleday, 1949. First American Edition.
A.
4. 7. 3. Vintage Classics, 2001. Contains the original Preface.
A.
4. 8. The Vagrant Mood. Six essays.
A.
4. 8. 1. Heinemann, 1952. First Edition.
A.
4. 8. 2. Doubleday, 1953. First American Edition
A.
4. 8. 3. Vintage Classics, 2001.
Contents: Augustus –
Zurbaran – The Decline and Fall of the Detective Story – After Reading Burke –
Reflections on a Certain Book – Some Novelists I Have Known
A.
4. 9. Points of View. Five essays.
A.
4. 9. 1. Heinemann, 1958. First Edition.
A.
4. 9. 2. Doubleday, 1959. First American Edition.
A. 4.
9. 3. Vintage Classics, 2000.
Contents: The three novels
of a poet – The saint – Prose and Dr. Tillotson – The short story – Three
journalists
B.
PLAYS BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
(Written
– First produced – First published)
B.
1. Marriages are made in Heaven (1896-97 – 1902 – unpublished).
A play in one act. First
produced in Schall und Rauch , Berlin
B.
2. Mademoiselle Zampa (1896-97 – 1904 – unpublished).
A New One-act Farce. No
publication edition, but it was published in The Sketch (1905) as A
Rehearsal. Reprinted in A Traveller
in Romance (1984); see C. 2. First produced by Muriel Wylford at Avenue
Theatre, London
B.
3. A Man of Honour (1898/rev. 1902 – 1903 – 1903, Chapman and Hall).
A New Modern Play in Four
Acts. Maugham's first full-length play to be produced: by the Stage Society at the Imperial Theatre,
London London
B.
4. The Explorer (1899 – 1908 – 1912, Heinemann).
A Play in Four Acts. First
published as “A Melodrama in Four Acts”. Novelised and published under the same
title in 1908; see A. 1. 7. First produced by Lewis Waller at the Lyric Theatre
on June 13, 1908 (48 performances) with Lewis Waller (Alexander Mackenzie),
revived by him (in a Revised Version) at the same theatre, May 19, 1909 (7
performances).
B.
5. Loaves and Fishes (1903 – 1911 – 1924, Heinemann).
A Satire in Four Acts. Novelised
as The Bishop's Apron and published
in 1906; see A. 1. 6. First published in play form as “A Comedy in Four Acts”. First
produced by Charles Frohman at The Duke of York's Theatre, London London
B.
6. Lady Frederick (1903 – 1907 – 1912, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Comedy in Three Acts. First
produced by Otho Stuart at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on October 26, 1907;
transferred to the Garrick Theatre, March 10, 1908; to the Criterion Theatre,
April 27, 1908; to the New Theatre, June 8, 1908; and to the Haymarket Theatre,
August 1, 1908; 422 performances overall; with Ethel Irving (Lady
Frederick) and C. M. Lowne (Paradine Fouldes). First produced on Broadway
by Charles Frohman at the Hudson Theatre, November 9, 1908 (96 performances), with Ethel
Barrymore (Lady Frederick) and Bruce McRae (Paradine Fouldes). Revived by Gilbert Porteous
at the Globe Theatre, London , April 26, 1913 (57
performances), and by Firth Shepherd at the Savoy Theatre, London
B.
7. Mrs. Dot (1904 – 1908 – 1912, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Light Comedy in Three Acts.
First published as “A Farce in Three Acts”. Originally titled Worthley's Entire. First produced by Charles Frohman
and Arthur Chudleigh at the Comedy Theatre, London
B.
8. Jack Straw (1907 – 1908 – 1912, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A New Comedy in Three Acts. First published as
“A
Farce in Three Acts”. First produced by A. and C. Gatti at the Vaudeville
Theatre,
London London
B.
9. Penelope (1908 – 1909 – 1912, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Comedy in Three Acts.
Originally titled Man and Wife.
Written for Marie Tempest. First produced by Charles Frohman at the Comedy
Theatre, London
B.
10. The Tenth Man (1909 – 1910 – 1913, Heinemann).
A Play in Three Acts. First
published as “A Tragic Comedy in Three Acts”. First produced by Charles Frohman and Arthur
Bourchier at the Globe Theatre, London
B.
11. Smith (1909 – 1909 – 1913, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Comedy in Four Acts. First
produced by Charles Frohman at the Comedy Theatre, London
B.
12. Landed Gentry (1910 – 1910 – 1913, Heinemann).
A Play in Four Acts. First
published as “A Comedy in Four Acts”. Also titled Grace. First produced by Charles Frohman at the Duke of York's Theatre,
London
B.
13. The Land of Promise
A Play in Four Acts. The
rarest of all Maugham's printed works: only 25 copies of the true first edition
from 1913 exist. First edition for the general public by Heinemann in 1922.
First produced by Charles Frohman at the Hyperion Theatre, New Haven, Conn., November 26, 1913; subsequently
at the Lyceum
Theatre, New York, December 25, 1913 (76 performances); with Billie Burke (Norah
Marsh). First produced in London
B.
14. The Unattainable (1915 – 1916 – 1923, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Farce in Three Acts.
Originally produced with the title Caroline at the New Theatre on February 8,
1916 with Irene Vanbrugh.
B.
15. Our Betters (1915 – 1917 – 1923, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Comedy in Three Acts. First
produced, causing considerable controversy, by John D. Williams at the Nixon
Theatre,
Atlantic City, N.J., March 8, 1917; subsequently at the Hudson Theatre,
New York, March 12, 1917 (112 performances), with Chrystal Herne (Pearl), Rose Goghlan (Duchess of
Surennes), Leonore Harris (Princess), John Flood (Arthur Fenwick) and Diantha
Pattison (Bessie). First produced in London by Anthony
Prinsep at the Globe Theatre, September 12, 1923 (548 performances), with
Margaret Bannerman (Pearl
B.
16. Love in a Cottage (1917 – 1918 – unpublished).
A Play in Four Acts. First
produced by Anthony Prinsep and Marie Lohr at the Globe Theatre, January 26, 1918
(127
performances), with Marie Lohr (Sybil Bruce) and Haidee Wright (Mrs Butterfield). Never published.
B.
17. Caesar's Wife (1918 – 1919 – 1922, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Comedy in Three Acts. First
produced by Vedrenne and Eadie at the Royalty Theatre, March 27, 1919 (241 performances), with Fay
Compton (Violet) and C. Aubrey Smith (Sir Arthur Little). First produced on Broadway
by Florence Ziegfield Jr. at the Liberty Theatre, November 24, 1919 (81
performances), with Billie Burke (Violet) and Norman Trevor (Sir Arthur
Little).
B.
18. Home and Beauty (1919 – 1919 – 1923, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Farce in Three Acts. First
produced under the title Too Many
Husbands by A. H. Woods at the Globe Theatre, Atlantic City, U.S.A., August 4, 1919 (15 performances), with Estelle
Winwood (Victoria), Kenneth Douglas (William) and Ernest Lawford (Atlantic City) /
Lawrence Grossmith (NY) (Frederick). First produced in England by Frank Curzon
and Gladys Cooper at The Playhouse, London , August 30,
1919 (235
performances), with Gladys Cooper (Victoria ) and
Charles Hawtrey (William) and Malcolm Cherry (Frederick
B.
19. The Circle (1919 – 1921 – 1921, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Comedy in Three Acts. First
produced by J. E. Vedrenne at the Haymarket Theatre, London ,
March 3, 1921 (181 performances), with Fay Compton (Elizabeth London , March
2, 1931 (86 perfomances), and by Tennenth Plays Ltd. at the Haymarket Theatre, London Elizabeth
B.
20. The Unknown (1920 – 1920 – 1920, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Play in Three Acts. First
produced by Viola Tree at the Aldwych Theatre, London, August 9, 1920 (77 performances), with Basil
Rathbone (John Wharton), Lady Viola Tree (Mrs Wharton), to whom the play is dedicated, Haidée Wright
(Mrs
Littlewood), who caused Maugham to say he had never seen such a moving performance,
and Ellen
O’Malley (Sylvia). Broadly the same basic theme as in the novel The Hero (1901); see A. 1. 3.
B.
21. East of Suez
A Play in Seven Scenes. Maugham's
theatrical "spectacle" with a large cast of Chinese extras and an
orchestra playing incidental music composed by Eugene Goossens. First produced by
George
Grossmith and J. A. E. Malone at His Majesty's Theatre, London, September 2, 1922 (209 performances), with Basil
Rathbone (George Conway) and Meggie Albanesi/Norah Robinson (Daisy).
B.
22. The Camel's Back (1923 – 1923 – unpublished).
A New Farce in Three Acts.
First produced by the Selwyns at the Worcester Theatre, Worcester , Mass. England
by Frank
Curzon
at the Playhouse, London
B.
23. The Road Uphill (1924 – unproduced – unpublished).
Never produced or published.
Broadly the same main theme as Maugham later used in his most successful novel,
The Razor's Edge (1944).
B.
24. The Constant Wife (1926 – 1926 – 1927, George H. Doran). See F. 3.
A Comedy in Three Acts. First
produced by Charles Frohman Co. at the Ohio Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio, November 1, 1926;
subsequently at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, November 29, 1926 (295 performances), with Ethel
Barrymore (Constance) and C. Aubrey Smith (John). First produced in England by Horace Watson at the Strand
Theatre, London , April 6, 1927 (70 performances), with Fay
Compton (Constance ) and Leon Quartermaine (John).
B.
25. The Letter (1927 – 1927 – 1927, Heinemann).
A Play in Three Acts. Firmly
based on Maugham's own story of the same title from The Casuarina Tree (1926). First produced by Gladys Cooper at the
Playhouse, London W. Austin (Robert Crosbie). The play was
imaginatively directed for the screen by William Wyler in 1940, starring Bette Davis (Leslie),
James Stephenson (Howard Joyce) and Herbert Marshall (Robert Crosbie).
B.
26. The Sacred Flame (1928 – 1928 – 1928, Doubleday Doran). See F. 3.
A Play in Three Acts. First
produced by Messmore Kendall and Gilbert Miller at the Belasco Theatre,
Washington; November 12, 1928; subsequently at the Henry Miller’s Theatre, New
York, November 19, 1928 (24 performances), with Mary Jerrold (Mrs Tabret),
Casha Pringle (Stella), Clare Eames (Nurse) and Robert Harris (Maurice). First produced
in England by Gladys Cooper
at the Playhouse, London London ,
November 22, 1945 (matinees), transferred to the Westminster Theatre, London London
B.
27. The Breadwinner (1930 – 1930 – 1930, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Comedy. Published as “The
Bread-Winner”. First produced by J. and R. Gatti and Ronald Squire at the Vaudeville
Theatre, London London
B.
28. For Services Rendered (1932 – 1932 – 1932, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Play in Three Acts. First
produced by Barry Jackson at the Globe Theatre, London, November 1, 1932,
subsequently at the Queen’s Theatre, January 2, 1933 (78 performances), with Ralph
Richardson (Collie), Flora Robson (Evie), Marjorie Mars (Lois), S. J. Warmington (Wilfred), C. V. France (Leonard Ardsley), Diana Hamilton
(Ethel),
W. Cronin-Wilson (Howard) and Cedric Hardwicke (Sydney). Revived by Peter Cotes
at the New
Lindsey Theatre, London, July 2, 1946 (40 performances), with Arthur Howard
(Collie), Joan Miller (Evie), Ilona Ference (Lois), Howard Douglas (Wilfred),
Julian d’Albie (Leonard Ardsley), Doreen Richards (Ethel), Kenneth Buckley (Howard)
and Reginald Purdell (Sydney).
B.
29. Sheppey (1932 – 1933 – 1933, Heinemann). See F. 3.
A Play in Three Acts. First
produced by Alban B. Limpus at Wyndham's Theatre, London
The plays The Noble Spaniard (1908), The Perfect
Gentleman (1912) and The Mask and the
Face (1933) were not written by Maugham but only translated and/or adapted
by him from the French and Italian originals of Grenet-Dancourt, Moliere and
Chiarelli, respectively.
C.
POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOKS BY W. SOMERSET
MAUGHAM
C.
1. Seventeen Lost Stories, Doubleday, 1969.
Edited by Craig Showalter. Contains
17 early short stories first published between 1899 and 1908, including the six
that made Maugham’s first published collection, Orientations (1899, A. 2. 1.). None of the other 11 had ever
appeared in book form before but they were all published in magazines between
1900 and 1908. Includes the early versions of “A Marriage of Convenience” (see
A. 3. 3.), “The Luncheon” (as “Cousin Amy”, see A. 2. 7.) and “The Happy Couple”
(see A. 2. 9.).
Contents:
A Bad Example (1899)
Daisy (1899)
De Amicitia (1899)
Faith (1899)
The Choice of Amyntas (1899)
The Punctiliousness of Don
Sebastian (1899, in book form. See A. 2. 1.)
Lady Habart (1900)
Cupid and the Vicar of Swale
(1900)
Pro Patria (1903)
A Point of Law (1903)
An Irish Gentleman (1904)
A Marriage of Convenience*
(1906)
Flirtation (1906, written in
1904)
The Fortunate Painter (1908,
as “The Fortunate Painter and the Honest Jew”)
Good Manners (1907)
Cousin Amy** (1908)
The Happy Couple*** (1908)
*Later significantly
rewritten and published as part of the travel book The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930) and, under this title, in The Complete Short Stories (1951). See
A. 3. 3. and F. 1.
**Later significantly
rewritten and published under the title “The Luncheon” in the short story
collection Cosmopolitans (1936). See
A. 2. 7.
***Later significantly
rewritten and published under the same title in the short story collection Creatures of Circumstance (1947). See A.
2. 9.
C.
2. A Traveller in Romance, Clarkson N. Potter, 1984.
Edited by John Whitehead. Contains
65 short pieces spanning 63 years of Maugham's life never published before in
any of his books: prefaces and introductions to the works of others, magazine
articles, book reviews, curtain-raisers. Almost exclusively non-fiction but it
does contain also four short stories, three early ones published in magazines
before the First World War and “The Buried Talent”: first published in 1934,
never appeared in book form during Maugham's lifetime.
Contents:
Curtain-raisers
1. Marriages are made in
Heaven, Venture (1903). See B. 1.
2. A Rehearsal, The Sketch (1905). See B. 2.
On
Players and Playwrights
1. Introduction to The Truth at Last by Charles Hawtrey
(1924)
2. Preface to Our Puppet Show by Francis de Croisset
(1929)
3. Introduction to Bitter-Sweet and Other Plays by Noel
Coward (1929)
4. Foreword to Gallery
Unreserved by A. Galleryite [F. T. Bason] (1931)
5. Tribute to Marie Tempest,
Souvenir Programme (1935)
6. Gladys Cooper -
Introduction to Without Veils by
Sewell Stokes (1953)
On
Painters and Painting
1. Gerald Kelly - A Student
of Character, International Studio (1914)
2. Gerald Kelly - Preface to
An Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Gerald Kelly, The Leicester Galleries, London
3. Preface to catalogue of
exhibition Flower Paintings by Marie Laurencin (1934)
4. Paintings I Have Liked,
Life (1941)
5. Preface to Peter Arno's Cartoon Review (1942)
6. The Lady from Poonah -
Maugham's speech given on 2 May 1951 at the Royal
Academy 's Annual Banquet in London
7. Introduction to The Artist and the Theatre by Raymond
Mander and Joe Mitcheson (1955)
8. On Having My Portrait
Painted, Horizon (1959)
9. On Selling My Collection
of Impressionist and Modern Pictures - Preface to Sotheby's Auction Catalogue
(1962).
On
Writers and Writing
1. On Writing for the Films, North American Review (1921)
2. Novelist or Bond Salesman,
Bookman (N. Y.) (1925)
3. On Prefaces, Critics and a
Novel - Preface to Two Made Their Bed
by Louis Marlow (1929).
4. Preface to The House with Green Shutters by George
Douglas (1938)
5. Introduction to his
anthology Modern English and American
Literature (1943)
6. Write About What You Know,
Good Housekeeping (1943)
7. Variations on a Theme Dorothy
Parker - Introduction to Dorothy Parker, Viking Portable Library (1944).
8. A Plan to Encourage Young
Writers - Maugham's Address given on 30 September 1950 at the Book and Author
Luncheon in Hotel Astor, N. Y., New York
Herald Tribune (1950).
9. On Story-Telling - Address
given at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, on 17 October
1950. Reprinted in 1950.
10. Preface to Letters from Madame de la Marquise de
Sevigne edited by Violet Hammersley (1955)
Book
Reviews
1. The Ionian Sea by George Gissing,
Sunday Sun (1901)
2. Growing-Up - Twenty-Five by Beverly Nichols, Sunday Times (1926)
3. Books of the Year, Sunday Times (1955)
On
His Own Work
1. How Novelists Draw Their
Characters, Bookman (1922)
2. Preface to A Bibliography of the Writings of W. Somerset Maugham by F. T. Bason (1931)
3. Of Human Bondage: With
Digression on the Art of Fiction - Address given by Maugham on 20 April 1946 to
the Library of Congress (1946).
4. Behind the Story, Wings
(1946)
5. By A Way W. Somerset Maugham
(1958)
Short
Stories
1. The Spanish Priest, Illustrated London
2. The Making of Millionaire,
Lady's Realm (1906)
3. A Traveller in Romance, Printer's Pie Annual (1909)
4. The Buried Talent, Nash's Magazine (1934)
Wartime
Articles in America
1. In the Bus, Allied Relief
Ball Souvenir Program (1940)
2. Reading Under Bombing, Living Age (1940)
3. The Culture That is to
Come, Redbook (1941)
4. The Noblest Act, This Week (1942)
5. Why D'You Dislike Us?, Saturday Evening Post (1942)
6. To Know about England
7. Morale Made in American, Redbook (1942)
8. Virtue, Redbook (1943)
9. Reading
10. We Have a Common
Heritage, Redbook (1943)
11. What Reading
12. ''Above all, love...'', Rotarian (1952)
On
People and Places
1. My South Sea Island
2. Preface to What a Life! by Doris Arthur-Jones
(1932)
3. The Terrorist: Boris
Savinkov, Redbook (1943)
4. Spanish Journey, Continental Daily Mail (1948)
5. From Nelson Doubleday
1889-1949, privately printed (1950)
6. Eddie Marsh -
Proof-Reading as an Avocation, Publishers'
Weekly (1939). See D. 5.
7. Eddie Marsh - From
Sketches for a composite literary portrait of Sir Edward Marsh, London
8. Foreword to Memoirs of Aga Khan (1954)
On
Himself
1. On the Approach of Middle
Age, Vanity Fair (1923)
2. Self-Portrait, from Portraits and Self-Portraits by G.
Schreiber (1936)
3. Sixty-Five, in W. Somerset Maugham: Novelist, Essayist, Dramatist,
A pamphlet about his work, together with
a Bibliography, an Appreciation by Richard Aldington. and New Note on Writing
by Mr Maugham (1939)
4. On Playing Bridge
4.1. Introduction to Standard
Book of Bidding by C. H. Goren (1944)
4.2. How I Like to Play Bridge
5. Looking Back on Eighty
Years, Listener, Home Service Broadcast on 28 January 1954
6. On His Ninetieth Birthday
- W. Somerset Maugham talking to Ewan MacNaughton, Sunday Express (1964)
The last piece is actually
not written by Maugham himself. It is a patch work with quotations from his
books and his thoughts guided by Ewan MacNaughton who found the almost 90 years
old Maugham feeble and with a good many blanks in his memory. The piece was
approved by Maugham before publication.
D.
PAMPHLETS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS OF OTHERS
BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
NB. Doubtful pieces or such
that have never appeared in any of his books or in Seventeen Lost Stories (C. 1.) and A Traveller in Romance (C. 2.).
D.
1.
My Favorite Story. International Magazine
Co., 1928. Reprints “Red” from The
Trembling of a Leaf (1921). Contains also a short introduction by Maugham
why he chose this story.
D.
2.
How Writers Write: Essays by Contemporary
Authors. Edited by N. S. Tillett, Oxford , Toronto
D.
3.
The Harvest. Leipzig
D.
4.
Wisdom of Life: An Anthology of Noble
Thoughts. London Watts ,
1938. Apparently contains some noble, but still unidentified, thoughts of
Maugham.
D.
5.
A Number of People by Sir Edward
Marsh. New York
D.
6.
An Appeal for the Hospitals. Bundles for Britain
D.
7.
Modern English Readings New York
D.
8.
The English Spirit, Edited and with
Introduction by Anthony Weymouth. London , George
Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1942, and New
York
D.
9.
The Magician by Frank Bruno. Viking
Press, 1946. Introduction by Maugham.
D.
10.
Paul Gauguin by Raymond Cogniat.
Wildenstein & Co., April 1946.
Art catalogue with
Introduction by Maugham.
D.
11.
Of Human Bondage, with a Digression on
the Art of Fiction: An address. Pamphlet, Library of Congress, 1946. An
address given by Maugham on 20th of April 1946 in Coolidge Auditorium, The
Library of Congress, on the occasion of his presenting the original manuscript
of Of Human Bondage to the Library of
Congress. This is actually reprinted in A
Traveller in Romance (1984); see C. 2.
D.
12.
Writing for Love or Money, ed. Norman Cousins ,
New York
D.
13.
Essays by Divers Hands. Transactions of
the Royal Society of Literature of United Kingdom London , Oxford
University
D.
14.
The Writer's Point of View. Pamphlet,
Cambridge University
D.
15.
Robert Ross: Friend of Friends by
Margery Ross. London , J. Cape ,
1952. Letters of Maugham to Robert Ross, pp. 157, 203.
D.
16.
Speech by W. Somerset Maugham. Given on
opening the exhibition of Authors as Artists at the Army & Navy Stores, 15
October 1956. London, Army & Navy Stores Ltd., 1956. A talk on ''authors
who have to a greater or lesser extent occupied themselves with graphic arts''
with reflections on Max Beerbohm, Gordon Craig, Lawrence Whistler, D. H.
Lawrence and Noel Coward (2 pp).
D.
17.
The Cassell Miscellany. (London
D.
18.
Purely for My Pleasure. Heinemann,
1962. Art album of Maugham's picture collection with short commentaries by him
how he happened to acquire these canvases.
E.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS BY W. SOMERSET
MAUGHAM
NB. Doubtful pieces or such
that have never appeared in any of his books or in Seventeen Lost Stories (C. 1.) and A Traveller in Romance (C. 2.).
E.
0. 1. ''A Really Nice Story: A Short Tale'', Black & White, Nov. 30,
1901, pp. 768-769.
E.
0. 2. ''The Image of the Virgin: A Short Story'', Black & White, Dec. 14,
1901, pp. 840-842.
E.
0. 3. ''The Criminal'', Lloyd's Weekly News, July 31, 1904, p. 14.
E. 0. 4. "The Course of True Love", The Woman at Home, August 1904. Jack Adrian mentions this short story in his introduction to The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1998, but otherwise the piece is a complete mystery. No reference to it in Raymond Toole Stott's bibliography or anywhere else in the literature on Maugham. Possibly, if not very probably, it is an alternative title to "Flirtation", written in 1904 but first published in 1906, later reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories (1968).
E. 0. 4. "The Course of True Love", The Woman at Home, August 1904. Jack Adrian mentions this short story in his introduction to The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1998, but otherwise the piece is a complete mystery. No reference to it in Raymond Toole Stott's bibliography or anywhere else in the literature on Maugham. Possibly, if not very probably, it is an alternative title to "Flirtation", written in 1904 but first published in 1906, later reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories (1968).
E.
1.
''The Mother''. Story Teller, April
1909. Original version of the short story in Creatures of Circumstance (1947); see A. 2. 9. A rare case when
Maugham was satisfied enough with an early work as to revise it only
slightly 40 years or so later. The original version also appeared in book form,
The Cassell Miscellany (1958); see D.
17.
E.
2.
“The Woman Who Wouldn't Take a Hint”. Cosmopolitan,
April 1924. As it turned out, this is an alternative title of the short story “Mabel”,
published as such in The Complete Short
Stories (1951, F. 1.), but as a nameless chapter it appeared as early as
1930 in The Gentleman in the Parlour;
see A. 3. 3.
E.
3.
“Advice to a Young Author”. New York
Times, 2 March 1927.
E.
4.
“Through the Jungle”. Britannia and Eve,
July and August 1929. With photographs illustrating the articles by Gerald Haxton.
Probably familiar excerpts from either A
Writer's Notebook (1949) or The
Gentleman in the Parlour (1930), A. 4. 7. and A. 3. 3. respectively.
E.
5.
“Maugham Discusses Drama”. The Living Age,
May 1931.
E.
6.
“How I Write Short Stories”. Saturday Review
of Literature, 28 July 1934. This is actually a reprint, with minor
alternations, of the preface to East and
West, the first volume of First American Edition of The Complete Short Stories. See F. 2.
E.
7.
“W. Somerset Maugham discusses the Cinema”. Film Weekly, November 19, 1938.
E.
8.
“The Professional Writer”. Sat. Rev. of
Lit., 29 January 1938.
E.
9.
“Give Me a Murder”. Sat. Eve. Post,
28 December 1940.
E.
10.
“What Tomorrow Holds”. Redbook,
January 1941.
E.
11.
“They are Strange People”. Redbook,
February 1941.
E.
12.
“In Defence of Who-done-its”. Scholastic,
25 May 1945.
E.
13.
“Function of the Writer”. Writer, 25
May 1946.
E.
14.
“What Should a Novel Do?”. Scholastic,
3 March 1947.
E.
15.
“Ten Best Sellers”. Good Housekeeping,
September 1948. Probably some excerpts from Great
Novelists and Their Novels (1948, A. 4. 6.) or the Introductions in the
Atlantic Monthly. See H. 4.
E. 16. “I'm Glad To Be
Old”. English Digest, International
Edition, April 1951.
E. 17. “The Bidding
Started Slowly”. The Connoisseur,
June 1952.
E. 18. “On the Approach
of Middle Age”. Vogue, 15 November 1960. This is highly unlikely to have been
written anew since Maugham was 84 years old and hardly “approaching the middle
age” when it was published. Probably it is reprint of the much earlier article
with the same name that appeared in Vanity
Fair in 1923 and is also included in A
Traveller in Romance (1984). See C. 2.
E.
19.
“Looking Back”. Show (N. Y.),
June-August 1962. Reprinted, Sunday
Express, September to 28 October 1962. Maugham's notorious memoirs, partly
serialised in magazines but never published in book form in their entirety.
E.
20.
“The Wisdom of W. S. Maugham”. Playboy,
January 1966. It is doubtful that this piece was written by Maugham as John
Whitehead mentions in the preface to A Traveller
in Romance (C. 2.).
F.
IMPORTANT COLLECTED EDITIONS
OF
WORKS BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
F.
1.
The Complete Short Stories,
Heinemann, 1951, 3 vols.
Reprinted, 1952. Contains 91
short stories: 84 from all collections but Orientations
(A. 2. 2. to A. 2. 9.) and 7 pieces from the travel books: two from On A Chinese Screen (A. 3. 2.) five from
The Gentleman in the Parlour (A. 3.
3.). Maugham also wrote a new Preface to each volume and arranged the order in
which the stories appear.
F.
2.
The Complete Short Stories,
Doubleday, 1952, 2 vols.
First American Edition.
Reprinted by The Reprint Society, 1954. The same 91 short stories as in the
Heinemann edition above, but with completely different Prefaces. Vol. 1 is
called East and West, was first
published in 1934, also under the English title Altogether, and contains a new 26 pp preface on the art of short
story. Vol. 2 is called The World Over,
was first published in 1952, and contains a new 8 pp preface. Both prefaces are
reprinted in Selected Prefaces and
Introductions (1963); see F. 7.
F.
3.
The Collected Plays, Heinemann, 1952,
3 vols.
Contain 18 plays and a new
Preface to each volume. First published in 1931-34 in 6 vols., as a beginning
of The Collected Edition. The plays
in the 1952 edition are identical, the prefaces were only slightly adjusted. See
also B. 6-9., 11., 13-15., 17-21., 24. & 26-29.
I. Lady Frederick – Mrs. Dot – Jack Straw – Penelope – Smith – The Land of Promise
II. Our Betters – The Unattainable – Home and Beauty – The Circle – The
Constant Wife – The Breadwinner.
III. Caesar’s Wife – East of Suez
F.
4.
The Selected Novels, Heinemann, 1953,
3 vols.
Contain 9 novels and a new
Preface to each volume. See also A. 1. 1., 10-16 & 18.
I. Liza of Lambeth – Cakes and Ale – Theatre
II. The Moon and Sixpence – The Narrow Corner – The Painted Veil
III. Christmas Holiday – Up at the Villa – The
Razor's Edge
F.
5.
The Partial View, Heinemann, 1954.
Contains The Summing Up (A. 4. 2.) and A
Writer's Notebook (A. 4. 7.) in one volume with a new Preface.
F.
6.
The Travel Books, Heinemann, 1955.
Contains On a Chinese Screen (A. 3. 2.), The
Gentleman in the Parlour (A. 3. 3.), Don
Fernando (A. 4. 1.) in one volume with a new Preface.
F.
7.
Selected Prefaces and Introductions,
Doubleday, 1963.
Reprinted by Heinemann, 1964.
Contains, among other things, the prefaces to both Vol. 1 East and West (26 pp) and Vol. 2 The World Over (8 pp) of the American Edition of The Complete Short Stories (1952, F.
2.).
Contents:
Contents:
CONCERNING MR. MAUGHAM'S OWN
WORKS
1. The Art of Fiction from
Ten Novels and their Authors (1954)
2. Preface to A Writer's Notebook (1949)
3. Foreword to Of Human Bondage (1915)*
4. Excerpt from the Preface
to Vol. III of The Collected Plays
(1931)
5. Prefaces to both volumes
of the American edition of The Complete
Short Stories
- vol. 1 East and West
(1921-1952)
- vol. 2 The World Over
(1922-1952)
CONCERNING THE WORKS OF OTHER
WRITERS
1. General Introduction to Traveller's Library (1933)
2. Introduction to Tellers of Tales (1939)
3. Introduction to A Choice of Kipling's Prose (1952)
* This is incorrect. Of Human Bondage was first published in
1915 but without any preface; see A. 1. 9. 1. The Foreword reprinted here was
written in 1936 for the First Illustrated Edition published by Doubleday; see
A. 1. 9. 4.
F.
8.
Collected Short Stories, 4 vols.
The same 91 short stories as
above (F. 1-2.). The order is slightly modified, the prefaces are virtually the
same as in the definitive Heinemann edition from 1951. Published numerous
times: Penguin, 1963; Mandarin, 1990; Vintage, 2000-2002, to name but a few.
F.
9.
The Maugham Reader, Doubleday, 1950.
With Introduction by Glenway
Wescott and Frontispiece portrait of portrait by Graham Sutherland. Pagination:
xxxvi+1217 pp. [Stott]. Contains 2 novels, 2 plays, 14 short stories, 1 essay
and the complete The Summing Up
(1938), all previously published but some under very different titles:
The
Painted Veil – Jane – The Opium Addict – The Facts of Life – Rain – The Treasure –
The Outstation – The French Governor – Our Betters – The Summing Up – The Constant Wife – Red – A String of Beads – The
Door of Opportunity – September's Bird – The Alien Corn – The Round Dozen – The
Vessel of Wrath – Christmas Holiday –
El Greco
“September's Bird”, “The
Opium Addict” and “The French Governor” are alternative titles of “Princess
September”, “Mirage” and “A Marriage of Convenience”, respectively; the latter
can be found in The Complete Short
Stories editions as well, occasionally with very slight textual changes;
all three stories also appeared in The
Gentleman in the Parlour (1930), as chapters XXXII, XLIII and XXXIV,
respectively. So far as can currently be ascertained, the alternative titles in
The Maugham Reader were never used
before or since in any other volume with Maugham's works. [Thanks a lot,
Daniel! :-)]
“El Greco” is a reprint from Don Fernando (1935; Revised, 1950). The
version here was most probably taken from the revised edition.
F.
10.
Mr. Maugham Himself, Doubleday, 1954.
Selected and with
Introduction by John Beecroft. Pagination: xxxvi+688 pp. [Stott]. Contains 1
novel, 2 short stories, 2 essays, excerpts from A Writer's Notebook (1949) and
the complete The Summing Up (1938),
all previously published:
Of
Human Bondage – Some Novelists I Have Known – Mr Harrington's Washing – The Book Bag –
El Greco – The Summing Up – Excerpts
from ''A Writer's Notebook''.
The so called ''Excerpts from
A Writer's Notebook'' are actually the two postscripts that Maugham wrote in
1944 and 1949; both are of course part of the original edition of the book.
Remarkably, this reprinting of The
Summing Up contains a unique postscript which is actually a condensed
version of Maugham's preface for The
Partial View (1954). [Thank you, Daniel!]
G.
THE COLLECTED EDITION OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Published by Heinemann, 1934–1969.
G.
1.
Liza of Lambeth (1934, New Preface, 21pp.*°)
G.
2.
Cakes and Ale (1934, New Preface, 6pp.*°)
G.
3.
The Narrow Corner (1934, New Preface, 4pp.*°)
G. 4. The Painted Veil
(1934, New Preface, 5pp.*°)
G.
5.
Ashenden (1934, New Preface, 6pp.*°)
G.
6.
On a Chinese Screen (1935, New Preface, 4pp.°)
G.
7.
The Gentleman in the Parlour (1935, New Preface, 4pp.*°)
G.
8.
The Moon and Sixpence (1935, New Preface, 4pp.°)
G.
9.
The Trembling of a Leaf (1935, New Preface, 4pp.**°)
G.
10.
The Casuarina Tree (1935, the original preface!)
G.
11.
Ah King (1936, New Preface, 6pp.°)
G.
12.
First Person Singular (1936, New Preface, 5pp.°)
G.
13.
Of Human Bondage (1937, see A. 1. 9. 5)
G.
14.
Mrs Craddock (1937, see A. 1. 4. 4.)
G.
15.
Don Fernando (1937, see A. 4. 1.)
G.
16.
Cosmopolitans (1938, the original Preface!)
G.
17.
Theatre (1939, New Preface, 7pp.*)
G.
18.
Christmas Holiday (1941)
G.
19.
The Summing Up (1948)
G.
20.
The Razor's Edge (1948)
G.
21.
Catalina (1948)
G.
22.
Creatures of Circumstance (1950)
G.
23.
A Writer's Notebook (1951)
G.
24.
The Magician (1956, “A Fragment of Autobiography”*)
G.
25.
Then and Now (1959)
G.
26.
Up At the Villa (????)
G.
27.
The Explorer (1967)
G.
28.
Merry-Go-Round (1969)
* Prefaces reprinted in
Vintage Classics, Paperback, 1999-2001.
** Reprinted in Heron, 1968.
See A. 2. 2. 4.
°Reprinted in the Pocket
Edition, Heinemann, 1936-1938.
H.
BOOKS EDITED BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
H.
1.
The Traveller's Library. Doubleday
Doran, 1933. Reprinted the same year as Fifty
Modern English Writers. Compilation, 11pp Introduction and Notes by
Maugham. Contents.
H.
2.
Tellers of Tales. 100 Short Stories From
the United States , England , France ,
Russia and Germany
H.
3.
Great Modern Reading
H.
4.
The Ten Best Novels in the World, John C. Winston, 1948-49, 10 vols.
H.
4. 1. The History of Tom Jones by
Henry Fielding
H.
4. 2. David Copperfield by Charles
Dickens
H.
4. 3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
H.
4. 4. Old Man Goriot by Honore de
Balzac
H.
4. 5. Wuthering Heights
H.
4. 6. The Brothers Karamazov by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
H.
4. 7. The Red and the Black by
Stendhal
H.
4. 8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane
Austen
H.
4. 9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
H.
4. 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Abridged and with
Introduction by Maugham. Nine of these introductory essays appeared in the Atlantic Monthly between November 1947 and
July 1948. All ten were published by Winston in 1948 as Great Novelists and Their Novels (A. 4. 6.), later expanded into Ten Novels and Their Authors (A. 4. 6a.),
first published by Heinemann in 1954. See also E. 15.
H.
5.
A Choice of Kipling's Prose.
Macmillan & Co., 1952. Also published by Doubleday in 1953 as Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best.
Selection and 20pp or so introductory Essay by Maugham. Contents.
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