The Explorer / The Land of the Blessed Virgin

by W. Somerset Maugham

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Writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874. He attended St. Thomas's Medical School in London. A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were show more also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
The Explorer / The Land of the Blessed Virgin
Original publication date
1905 [The Land of the Blessed Virgin]; 1908 [The Explorer]; 1968 [omnibus]
Important places
Andalusia, Spain
Original language
English

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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823.91Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-1999

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