Bibliography

Sanders, Charles. "W. Somerset Maugham: A Supplementary Bibliography." English Literature in Transition 15, No. 2 (1972): 168-73.

Lists and annotates fifty-one articles on Maugham from 1908 to 1972.

Biography

Calder, Robert. Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham. London: Heinemann, 1989, 429 p.

Scholarly biography prepared with the assistance of Maugham's companion-secretary Alan Searle.

Criticism

Clinton, Farley. "Maugham's Bondage." The National Review XVIII, No. 8 (22 February 1966): 174-76.

Brief analysis of Maugham's career, in which Clinton notes the writer's diligence and his "keen sense for what the reading public would find touching, funny, or bizarre."

Curran, Trisha. "Variations on a Theme." In The English Novel and the Movies, edited by Michael Klein and Gillian Parker, pp. 228-34. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981.

Discusses two film adaptations of Of Human Bondage: John Cromwell's 1934 version, starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, and Ken Hughes's 1964 version, starring Laurence Harvey and Kim Novak.

Young, B. A. "The Grand Old Man Malgré Lui." Punch CCXLIV, No. 6391 (6 March 1963): 353.

Argues that analysis of Maugham's work is pointless if one accepts—as the author maintained—that it was written purely for entertainment.