Guests included Marianne Moore and William Somerset Maugham.
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The facts themselves, fantastic as they are, read like something that might have arisen from the fiction of William Somerset Maugham.
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They named it for The Casuarina Tree, William Somerset Maugham's 1926 collection of short stories about a group of British expatriates living in Borneo.
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For example, William Somerset Maugham's ( 1874 1965 ) novella " Up at the Villa " ( 1941 ) could very well be classified as crime fiction.
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Davis delivered a memorable line almost exactly like the one you are remembering in 1934's " Of Human Bondage, " based on William Somerset Maugham's novel.
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In William Somerset Maugham's 1915 masterpiece novel " Of Human Bondage ", he described the one-year stay of the protagonist Philip Carey at Heidelberg University, in a largely autobiographical way.
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Further productions for the BBC included a season of the crime drama " Detective " ( 1968 69 ) and a 26-part series of adaptations of the stories of William Somerset Maugham ( 1969 ).
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After that Syrie ( as she was known ) had several affairs, including with the department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge, and the author William Somerset Maugham with whom she had a child ( Mary Elizabeth ) and later married.
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""'Up at the Villa " "'is a 1941 novella by William Somerset Maugham about a young widow caught among three men : her suitor, her one-night stand, and her confidant.
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He translated over 150 books into German, including the work of several important English-language writers : George Orwell's " Nineteen Eighty-Four ", Kurt Vonnegut's " Slaughterhouse-Five ", and many works by Henry Miller, William Somerset Maugham, Victoria Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf.