W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

A great anthology of English and American literature, edited by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.
Hard cover.
Very good condition.
Publisher: THE BLAKISTON COMPANY (The New Home Library)
Year of Publication: 1943
Pages: 618
Dimensions: 21 x 14 cm
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William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.
Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and he was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. He did not want to become a lawyer like other men in his family, so he trained and qualified as a physician. The initial run of his first novel Liza of Lambeth (1897) sold out so rapidly that he gave up medicine to write full time.
During the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps before being recruited into the British Secret Intelligence Service in 1916, for which he worked in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917. During and after the war, he travelled in India and Southeast Asia, and those experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.