Principal Works
Liza of Lambeth (novel) 1897
The Making of a Saint (novel) 1898
Orientations (short stories) 1899
The Hero (novel) 1901
Mrs Craddock (novel) 1902; revised edition, 1937
Schiffbrüchig (drama) 1902
A Man of Honour (drama) 1903
Mademoiselle Zampa (drama) 1904
The Merry-Go-Round (short stories) 1904
The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia (travel essay) 1905
The Bishop's Apron: A Study in the Origins of a Great Family (novel) 1906
Lady Frederick (drama) 1907
The Explorer (drama) 1908
Jack Straw (drama) 1908
The Magician (novel) 1908
Mrs Dot (drama) 1908
Penelope (drama) 1909
Smith (drama) 1909
Grace (drama) 1910; published as Landed Gentry, 1913
The Tenth Man (drama) 1910
Loaves and Fishes (drama) 1911
The Land of Promise (drama) 1913
Of Human Bondage (novel) 1915
Caroline (drama) 1916; published as The Unattainable, 1923
Love in a Cottage (drama) 1918
Caesar's Wife (drama) 1919
Home and Beauty (drama) 1919; also performed as Too Many Husbands, 1919
The Moon and Sixpence (novel) 1919
Our Betters (drama) 1919
The Unknown (drama) 1920
The Circle (drama) 1921
The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands (short stories) 1921
On a Chinese Screen (travel essay) 1922
East of Suez (drama) 1922
The Camel's Back (drama) 1923
The Painted Veil (novel) 1925
The Casuarina Tree: Six Stories (short stories) 1926
The Constant Wife (drama) 1926
The Letter (drama) 1927
Ashenden; or, The British Agent (short stories) 1928
The Sacred Flame (drama) 1929
The Breadwinner (drama) 1930
Cakes and Ale; or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (novel) 1930
The Gentleman in the Parlour (travel essay) 1930
Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (short stories) 1931
The Book-Bag (novel) 1932
For Services Rendered (drama) 1932
The Narrow Corner (novel) 1932
Ah King: Six Stories (short stories) 1933
Sheppey (drama) 1933
East and West: The Collected Short Stories (short stories) 1934; also published as Altogether, 1934
Don Fernando; or, Variations on Some Spanish Themes (travel essay) 1935
Cosmopolitans (short stories) 1936
The Summing Up (autobiography) 1938
Christmas Holiday (novel) 1939
Books and You (essays) 1940
France at War (nonfiction) 1940
The Mixture as Before (short stories) 1940
Up at the Villa (novel) 1941
Strictly Personal (nonfiction) 1941
The Hour before Dawn (novel) 1942
The Razor's Edge (novel) 1944
The Unconquered (short stories) 1944
Then and Now (novel) 1946; also published as Fools and Their Folly, 1949
Creatures of Circumstance (short stories) 1947
Catalina (novel) 1948
Great Novelists and Their Novels (criticism) 1948; also published as Ten Novels and Their Authors [revised edition], 1954
A Writer's Notebook (journals) 1949
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham. 3 vols. (short stories) 1951
The Vagrant Mood (essays) 1952
The World Over (short stories) 1952
Points of View (essays) 1958
Looking Back (autobiographical sketch) 1962
Purely for My Pleasure (essays) 1962
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