Opere di W. Somerset Maugham

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Questa è una bibliografia delle opere di William Somerset Maugham, uno degli scrittori inglesi più famosi e prolifici del XX secolo.

Romanzi, libri di viaggi, saggi

Opere teatrali

Contributi su periodici

Questa lista presenta in ordine cronologico (in base alla data della prima pubblicazione) ogni articolo o contributo di Maugham per riviste o periodici. Spesso Maugham verificava l'interesse dei suoi lettori per una storia pubblicandola a puntate su giornali o periodici, in seguito la pubblicava come romanzo, o in una raccolta di racconti brevi.

  • 1. Don Sebastian 1898
  • 2. Cupid and the Vicar of Swale 1900
  • 3. Lady Habart 1900
  • 4. Schiffbruchig 1903
  • 5. Pro Patria 1903
  • 6. A Man of Honour 1903
  • 7. A Point of Law 1904
  • 8. An Irish Gentleman 1904
  • 9. A Rehearsal 1905
  • 10. Flirtation 1906
  • 11. The Fortunate Painter and the Honest Jew 1906
  • 12. A Marriage of Convenience 1908
  • 13. The Making of a Millionaire 1906
  • 14. Good Manners 1907
  • 15. Cousin Amy (in seguito riscritto come The Luncheon) 1908
  • 16. The Happy Couple 1908
  • 17. A Traveller in Romance 1909
  • 18. The Mother (originariamente intitolato La Cachirra) 1909
  • 19. Pygmalion at Home and Abroad 1914
  • 20. Gerald Festus Kelly 1915
  • 21. Mackintosh 1920
  • 22. Miss Thompson (titolo successivamente cambiato in Rain) 1921
  • 23. Red 1921
  • 24. On Writing for the Films 1921
  • 25. The Pool 1921
  • 26. Honolulu 1921
  • 27. My South Sea Island 1922
  • 28. Foreign Devils (titolo successivamente cambiato in Dinner Parties) 1922
  • 29. Fear 1922
  • 30. A City Built on a Rock 1922
  • 31. Philosopher 1922
  • 32. Two Studies – Mr Pete (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Consul) & The Vice-Consul 1922
  • 33. Taipan 1922
  • 34. The Princess and the Nightingale 1922
  • 35. Before the Party 1922
  • 36. Bewitched (titolo successivamente cambiato in P & O) 1923
  • 37. The Imposters (titolo successivamente cambiato in Raw Material) 1923
  • 38. Mayhew 1924
  • 39. German Harry 1924
  • 40. The Force of Circumstance 1924
  • 41. In a Strange Land 1924
  • 42. The Luncheon 1924
  • 43. The Round Dozen (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Ardent Bigamist) 1924
  • 44. The Woman Who Wouldn’t Take a Hint 1924
  • 45. The Letter 1924
  • 46. A Dream (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Dream) 1924
  • 47. The Outstation 1924
  • 48. The Happy Man 1924
  • 49. Salvatore the Fisherman (titolo successivamente cambiato in Salvatore) 1924
  • 50. Home from the Sea (titolo successivamente cambiato in Home) 1925
  • 51. The Ant and the Grasshopper 1924
  • 52. Mr Know-All 1925
  • 53. Novelist or Bond Salesman 1925
  • 54. The Widow’s Might (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Escape) 1925
  • 55. The Man Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly (titolo successivamente cambiato in A Friend in Need) 1925
  • 56. The Code of a Gentleman (titolo successivamente cambiato in Portrait of a Gentleman) 1925
  • 57. The Yellow Streak 1925
  • 58. The Most Selfish Woman I Knew (titolo successivamente cambiato in Louise) 1925
  • 59. The Man with a Scar 1925
  • 60. The Great Man (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Poet) 1926
  • 61. An Honest Woman (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Promise) 1926
  • 62. The End of the Flight 1926
  • 63. Another Man without a Country (titolo successivamente cambiato in French Joe) 1926
  • 64. Consul (in realtà era uscito come libro nel 1922 prima di essere un articolo pubblicato su un periodico) 1926
  • 65. The Creative Impulse 1926
  • 66. The Closed Shop 1927
  • 67. Footprints in the Jungle 1927
  • 68. Pearls (titolo successivamente cambiato in A String of Beads) 1927
  • 69. Advice to a Young Author 1927
  • 70. The Traitor 1927
  • 71. One of Those Women (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Dark Woman) 1927
  • 72. His Excellency 1928
  • 73. The Hairless Mexican 1928
  • 74. Mr Harrington’s Washing 1928
  • 75. The British Agent (titolo successivamente cambiato in Miss King) 1928
  • 76. The Four Dutchmen 1928
  • 77. In Hiding (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Wash Tub) 1929
  • 78. A Derelict (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Bum) 1929
  • 79. The Extraordinary Sex (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Social Sense) 1929
  • 80. Straight Flush 1929
  • 81. The Man Who Made His Mark (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Verger) 1929
  • 82. Through the Jungle 1929
  • 83. Mirage 1929
  • 84. A Marriage of Convenience 1929
  • 85. On the Road to Mandalay (inizialmente e successivamente il titolo era Masterson) 1929
  • 86. Cakes and Ale 1930
  • 87. Maltreat the Dead in Fiction 1930
  • 88. The Human Element 1930
  • 89. Virtue 1931
  • 90. The Vessel of Wrath 1931
  • 91. Maugham Discusses Drama 1931
  • 92. Arnold Bennett 1931
  • 93. The Right Thing is the Kind Thing (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Back of Beyond) 1931
  • 94. The Alien Corn 1931
  • 95. The Door of Opportunity 1931
  • 96. The Temptation of Neil MacAdam (titolo successivamente cambiato in Neil MacAdam) 1932
  • 97. The Narrow Corner 1932
  • 98. For Services Rendered 1932
  • 99. The Three Fat Women of Antibes 1933
  • 100. The Buried Talent 1934
  • 101. The Best Ever (titolo successivamente cambiato in The Treasure) 1934
  • 102. How I Write Short Stories 1934
  • 103. The Short Story 1934
  • 104. A Casual Affair 1934
  • 105. Appearance and Reality 1934
  • 106. The Voice of the Turtle 1935
  • 107. Gigolo and Gigolette 1935
  • 108. The Lotus Eater 1935
  • 109. An Official Position 1937
  • 110. The Lion’s Skin 1937
  • 111. The Sanatorium 1938
  • 112. The Professional Writer 1939
  • 113. Doctor and Patient (titolo successivamente cambiato in Lord Mountdrago) 1939
  • 114. You and Some More Books 1939
  • 115. The Facts of Life 1939
  • 116. A Man with a Conscience 1939
  • 117. Christmas Holiday 1939
  • 118. Proof Reading as an Avocation 1939
  • 119. Classic Books of America 1940
  • 120. The Villa on the Hill (titolo successivamente cambiato in Up at the Villa) 1940
  • 121. Britain Views the French Navy 1940
  • 122. The Refugee Ship 1940
  • 123. The Insider Story of the Collapse of France 1940
  • 124 The Lion at Bay 1940
  • 125 Reading under Bombing 1940
  • 126 Give me a Murder 1940
  • 127 What Tomorrow Holds 1941
  • 128 The are Strange People 1941
  • 129 Novelist’s Flight from France 1941
  • 130 Little Things of no Consequence 1941
  • 131 We Have Been Betrayed 1941
  • 132 Escape to America 1941
  • 133 Theatre 1941
  • 134 Mr Tomkin’s Sitter 1941
  • 135 The Culture that is to Come 1941
  • 136 An Exciting Prospect 1941
  • 137 Paintings I Have Liked 1941
  • 138 The Hour Before Dawn 1941
  • 139 Why Do You Dislike Us? 1942
  • 140 To Know About England and the English 1942
  • 141 Morale Made in America 1942
  • 142 The Happy Couple 1943
  • 143 Virtue (articolo diverso rispetto a quello elencato al numero 90) 1943
  • 144 Unconquered 1943
  • 145 The Captain and Miss Reid (titolo successivamente cambiato in Winter Cruise) 1943
  • 146 Reading and Writing and You 1943
  • 147 We Have a Common Heritage 1943
  • 148 The Terrorist 1943
  • 149 Write about What You Know 1943
  • 150 The Razor’s Edge 1943
  • 151 How I Like to Play Bridge 1944
  • 152 In Defence of Who-Done-Its 1945
  • 153 What Reading Can Do For You 1945
  • 154 The Colonel’s Lady 1946
  • 155 A Woman of Fifty 1946
  • 156 Function of the Writer 1946
  • 157 Then and Now 1946
  • 158 Behind the Story 1946
  • 159 Episode 1947
  • 160 The Point of Honour 1947
  • 161 What Should a Novel Do? 1947
  • 162 The Romantic Young Lady 1947
  • 163 Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary 1947
  • 164 Henry Fielding and Tom Jones 1947
  • 165 Honoré De Balzac and Old Man Goriot 1948
  • 166 Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights 1948
  • 167 Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov 1948
  • 168 Stendhal and the Red and the Black 1948
  • 169 Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice 1948
  • 170 Herman Melville and Moby Dick 1948
  • 171 Charles Dickens and David Copperfield 1948
  • 172 Catalina 1948
  • 173 Spanish Journey 1948
  • 174 Ten Best Sellers 1948
  • 175 A Writer’s Notebook 1949
  • 176 Augustus 1949/1950
  • 177 Zurbaran 1950
  • 178 After Reading Burke 1950/1951
  • 179 Somerset Maugham Tells a Story of the Lady from Poonay 1951
  • 180 The Bidding Started Slowly 1952
  • 181 Looking Back on Eighty Years 1954
  • 182 Somerset Maugham and the Greatest Novels (titolo successivamente cambiato in Ten Novels and their Authors) 1954
  • 183 The Perfect Gentleman 1955
  • 184 On Having My Portrait Painted 1959
  • 185 Credo of a Story Teller 1959
  • 186 On the Approach of Middle Age 1960
  • 187 Looking Back 1962

Racconti brevi

  • 1. A Bad Example
  • 2. A Casual Affair
  • 3. A Chance Acquaintance (in seguito inserito nella storia Mr Harrington's Washing)
  • 4. A Domiciliary Visit (in seguito inserito nella storia Miss King)
  • 5. A Friend in Need
  • 6. A Man from Glasgow
  • 7. A Man with a Conscience
  • 8. A Marriage of Convenience
  • 9. A Point of Law
  • 10. A String of Beads
  • 11. A Traveller in Romance
  • 12. A Trip to Paris (in seguito inserito nella storia Giulia Lazzari)
  • 13. A Woman of Fifty
  • 14. An Irish Gentleman
  • 15. An Official Position
  • 16. Appearance and Reality
  • 17. Before the Party
  • 18. Behind the Scenes (in seguito inserito nella storia His Excellency)
  • 19. Cousin Amy (in seguito riscritto come The Luncheon)
  • 20. Cupid and The Vicar of Swale
  • 21. Daisy
  • 22. De Amicitia
  • 23. Episode
  • 24. Faith
  • 25. Flirtation
  • 26. Flotsam and Jetsam
  • 27. Footprints in the Jungle
  • 28. French Joe
  • 29. German Harry
  • 30. Gigolo and Gigolette
  • 31. Giulia Lazzari
  • 32. Good Manners
  • 33. Gustav (in seguito inserito nella storia The Traitor)
  • 34. His Excellency
  • 35. Home
  • 36. Honolulu
  • 37. In a Strange Land
  • 38. Jane
  • 39. Lady Habart
  • 40. Lord Mountdrago
  • 41. Louise
  • 42. Love and Russian Literature (in seguito inserito nella storia Mr Harrington's Washing)
  • 43. Mabel
  • 44. Mackintosh
  • 45. Masterson
  • 46. Mayhew
  • 47. Mirage
  • 48. Miss King
  • 49. Mr Harrington’s Washing
  • 50. Mr Know-All
  • 51. Neil MacAdam
  • 52. P & O
  • 53. Princess September
  • 54. Pro Patria
  • 55. R. (in seguito inserito nella storia Miss King)
  • 56. Rain
  • 57. Raw Material
  • 58. Red
  • 59. Salvatore
  • 60. Sanatorium
  • 61. Straight Flush
  • 62. The Alien Corn
  • 63. The Ant and the Grasshopper
  • 64. The Back of Beyond
  • 65. The Book Bag
  • 66. The Bum
  • 67. The Buried Talent
  • 68. The Choice of Amyntas
  • 69. The Closed Shop
  • 70. The Colonel’s Lady
  • 71. The Consul
  • 72. The Creative Impulse
  • 73. The Dark Woman (in seguito inserito nella storia The Hairless Mexican)
  • 74. The Door of Opportunity
  • 75. The Dream
  • 76. The End of the Flight
  • 77. The Escape
  • 78. The Facts of Life
  • 79. The Fall of Edward Barnard
  • 80. The Flip of a Coin (in seguito inserito nella storia His Excellency)
  • 81. The Force of Circumstance
  • 82. The Fortunate Painter
  • 83. The Four Dutchmen
  • 84. The French Governor
  • 85. The Greek (in seguito inserito nella storia The Hairless Mexican)
  • 86. The Hairless Mexican
  • 87. The Happy Couple
  • 88. The Happy Man
  • 89. The Human Element
  • 90. The Judgement Seat
  • 91. The Kite
  • 92. The Letter
  • 93. The Lion’s Skin
  • 94. The Lotus Eater
  • 95. The Luncheon
  • 96. The Making of a Millionaire
  • 97. The Man with the Scar
  • 98. The Mother
  • 99. The Noblest Act
  • 100. The Opium Addict
  • 101. The Outstation
  • 102. The Poet
  • 103. The Point of Honour
  • 104. The Pool
  • 105. The Portrait of a Gentleman
  • 106. The Promise
  • 107. The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian
  • 108. The Romantic Young Lady
  • 109. The Round Dozen
  • 110. The Social Sense
  • 111. The Spanish Priest
  • 112. The Taipan
  • 113. The Three Fat Women of Antibes
  • 114. The Traitor
  • 115. The Treasure
  • 116. The Unconquered
  • 117. The Verger
  • 118. The Vessel of Wrath
  • 119. The Voice of the Turtle
  • 120. The Wash-Tub
  • 121. The Yellow Streak
  • 122. Virtue
  • 123. Winter Cruise

Contributi su libri di altri autori

  • Maugham curò anche l'edizione, completandola, dell'autobiografia dell'attore vittoriano Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), con il titolo "The Truth at Last", pubblicato postumo nel (1924).
  • Maugham scrisse la prefazione per il libro di Doris Arthur Jones, "What a Life!" (1932).
  • Contributo a un programma dedicato a Marie Tempest (1935).
  • Prefazione al catalogo di una mostra di Sir Gerald Kelly (1950).
  • "Eddie Marsh" (1953).
  • Introduzione di Maugham a "Without Veils", biografia di Gladys Cooper scritta da Sewell Stokes,(1953)
  • Introduzione a "The Artist and the Theatre - The story of the paintings collected and presented to the National Theatre by W.Somerset Maugham" di Raymond Mander e Joe Michenson (1955).
  • Maugham scrisse anche la prefazione dell'edizione delle "Letters from Madame de Sevigne" scelte e tradotte da Violet Hammersley (1955).

Note

  1. Stott, Raymond Toole, 1973, A bibliography of the works of W. Somerset Maugham, The University of Alberta Press, ISBN 0-88864-004-8, pp16-162.
  2. } Stott, 1973, pp16-162.
  3. Stott, 1973, pp198-215.