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"Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham is a semi-autobiographical novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows the life of Philip Carey, an orphaned boy with a club-foot, as he navigates through a journey of personal growth, love, an

"Cakes and Ale" is a satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a b

The Razor's Edge is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. Maugham is the narrator wh

"The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows the life of Charles Strickland, a stockbroker who abandons his conventional life in London to pursue his passion for painting, ultimately l

A Moveable Feast is a memoir by Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expatriate journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously on May 5, 1964. The book chronicles Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richar

Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa durin

Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book written by Ernest Hemingway about the history, ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting, published in 1932. Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the After

"To Have and Have Not" follows Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida. To Have and Have Not was Hemingway's second novel set in the United States, after The Torrents of Spring. Written sporadically between 1935 and 1937, and re

The Torrents of Spring is a novella written by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926. Subtitled "A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race", Hemingway used the work as a spoof of the world of writers. It is Hemingway's first long work an

“Across the River and into the Trees” Written in Italy, Cuba, and France in the late 1940s, this novel was the first of his to receive negative press and reviews. It was nonetheless a bestseller in America, spending 7 weeks at the top of The New York

"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway is a novel written in the late 1920s. The story is set during World War I and follows the experiences of an American ambulance driver named Frederick Henry, who serves in the Italian army. The novel explores t