W. Somerset Maugham

The Classic Crime Collection is a collection of 12 classic detective novels, read by an esteemed cast of award-winning narrators.

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters....

A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw....

One of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage, gives a harrowing depiction of unrequited love....

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet....

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter....

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play....

Set in the bohemian café society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century....

There’s something Constance Middleton’s friends are dying to tell her....

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume One is the first instalment in our classics collection focusing on the most important and iconic novels, stories, and poems of the 20th century.

The Painted Veil is the story of Kitty Garstin, a young socialite who amuses herself with the pursuit of various men until settling into a marriage with a physician, who takes her to Hong Kong to begin his work....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Four is the fourth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Four features 12 timeless works that largely focuses on the greats of American and British literature.

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, 18-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street....

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art....

Of Human Bondage follows Philip on his travels to Paris, London, and Germany, taking the listener on an adventure of discovery as his travels brings him new discoveries and emotional growth....

Somerset Maugham is one of the best-loved short story writers of the last 100 years....

When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy....

Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father's money, and promptly marries a handsome, calm, and unimaginative man....

Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England.....