“[Maugham is] a great artist …a genius.”

—Theodore Dreiser

“[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling … is almost the equal of imagination itself.”

— The Sunday Times (London)

“It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham.… He was always so entirely there .”

—Gore Vidal

“Maugham remains the consummate craftsman.…[His writing is] so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last.”

—Saturday Review of Literature 1cAZ5yGIm3yRM36eelANvgCrDQghlmmCaVSJ31pK8nb1iQ3naYvABftZeJuE3B9e