W(illiam) Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Selected works:

•LIZA OF LAMBETH, 1897

•ORIENTATIONS, 1899

•MRS. CRADDOCK, 1902 - Rouva Craddock

•A MAN OF HONOUR, 1903

•THE BISHOP'S APRON, 1906

•THE MAGICIAN, 1908 - (the central character, lightly disguised, is occultist Aleister Crowley)

•PENELOPE, 1909

•LADY FREDERICK. 1912

•JACK STRAW, 1912

•MRS DOT, 1912

•OF HUMAN BONDAGE, 1915 - Elämän kahle - film 1934, dir. by John Cromwell; film 1946, dir. by Edmund Gouldig; film 1964, dir. by Henry Hathaway, Ken Hughes

•THE MOON AND SIXPENCE, 1919 - Kuu ja kupariraha - film 1943, dir. by Albert Lewin

•THE CIRCLE, 1921 - Ympyrä - film 1925, dir. by Frank Borzage

•SADIE THOMPSON, 1921 - film 1928, dir. by Raoul Walsh, starring Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore; Rain 1932, dir. by Lewis Milestone, starring Joan Crawford, Walter Huston; film 1953 Sade/Miss Sadie Thompson, dir. by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Rita Hayworth and Mel Ferrer - also a film adaptation under the title Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A.

•THE TREMBLING OF A LEAF, 1921

•EAST OF SUEZ, 1922 - Suezin itäpuolella - film 1925, dir. by Raoul Walsh•ON CHINESE SCREEN, 1922

•OUR BETTERS, 1923 - film 1933. dir. by George Cukor

•THE PAINTED VEIL, 1925 - Kirjava huntu - film 1934, dir. by Richard Boleslawski

•THE CONSTANT WIFE, 1925 - Viisas aviovaimo

•THE CASUARINA TREE, 1926

•THE LETTER, 1927 - Kirje - film 1940, dir. by William Wyler

•THE SACRED FLAME, 1928 - Pyhä liekki - film The Right to Live in 1935, dir. by William Keighley

•ASHENDEN, 1928 - film Secret Agent in 1936, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock

•THE BREADWINNER, 1930