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Unit 3On Reading W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham (/m??m/), (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s. In spite of his popularity and international fame, Maugham did not receive critical attention for his fiction in Britain. Expressing his frustration with the situation Maugham wrote in his autobiography THE SUMMING UP (1938), that he stood in the very first row of the second-raters. Maugham First Editions NovelsLiza