My Maugham Collection

The Hero by W. Somerset Maugham -- Gone

A sad note. Can't help but express my personal sentiment here. Bear with me.

I had my eye on the first edition of Maugham's The Hero (1901) for some time, but because of the price I had been unable to make up my mind. With expenses on other hobbies and activities, I had sort of let it go. Just now I checked on it again and it had disappeared, sold, I guess. I have not been able to identify another copy, with that neat Maugham symbol printed upside down.

It is interesting how the imperfe…

"My Father and Maugham": On a Chinese Screen

Soong, Stephen C. "My Father and Maugham". Tran. Diana Yu. Renditions  3 (1974): 81-90.


This article, published a hundred years after Maugham's birth and several years after his death, is a call for understanding of one of Maugham's "unfairly" portrayed subjects, the receiving end of the urbane author's sarcastic darts.

The person concerned occupies one of the chapters "A Student of the Drama" in On a Chinese Screen (1922) [see note], a collection of s…