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"The Lotus Eater" is a short story by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before .
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. [ 1 ]
Five years later, Maugham and Brooks crossed paths again in Capri: Somerset Maugham, who was a regular visitor, captured the dark side in his classic short story "The Lotus Eater," about a British bank manager who throws over his life in London to live in Capri and swears to commit suicide when his money runs out.
Pages in category "Short stories by W. Somerset Maugham" ... The Lotus Eater; R. Rain (short story) U. The Unconquered (short story) V. The Vessel of Wrath
William Somerset Maugham came from a family of lawyers. His grandfather, Robert Maugham (1788–1862), was a prominent solicitor and co-founder of the Law Society of England and Wales . [ 5 ] Maugham's father, Robert Ormond Maugham (1823–1884), was a prosperous solicitor, based in Paris; [ 6 ] his wife, Edith Mary, née Snell, lived most of ...
"The Lotus Eater", a 1945 short story by W. Somerset Maugham "The Lotus Eaters" (Weinbaum), a 1935 short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Lotus Eaters, a 2010 novel by Tatjana Soli
The Mixture as Before is a collection of 10 short stories by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, first published by William Heinemann in 1940. [1]In the foreword, Maugham writes, "When my last volume of short stories was published The Times headed their review of it with the title The Mixture as Before.
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography; though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."