"Reading is a portable refuge" Author: [UK] William Somerset Maugham Publisher: Emergency Management Press

Master Maugham's reading notes:

The life secrets of dozens of masters such as Jane Austen, Dickens, Emily, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Maupassant, Chekhov, etc.

The stories behind dozens of world classics, including "Pride and Prejudice", "David Copperfield", "Wuthering Heights", "The Red and the Black", "Old Goriot", "Madame Bovary", "War and Peace", and "The Brothers Karamazov".

Regarding reading, let’s see what the master says

Reading is not boring, it is also a portable shelter where you can hide at any time

William Somerset Maugham, a British novelist and playwright, is a representative figure of realistic literature.

Maugham was born in Paris and studied medicine in London. He later gave up medicine to pursue writing. In 1915, his masterpiece "Of Human Bondage" was published, and in 1919, "The Moon and Sixpence" was published. These two classic works in literary history made Maugham one of the representatives of successful novelists. In 1954, the Queen of England awarded him the title of "honorary chamberlain" and made him a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

His representative works include: the drama "Circle"; the novels "Of Human Bondage", "The Moon and Sixpence", "The Veil" and "The Razor's Edge"; and the short story collections "The Tremor of the Leaves" and "Ajin".