Somerset Maugham. King of the Lear of the Cote d'Azur. Livergant A.Ya.

The hero of this book was one of the most talented and successful English writers of the 20th century. Although life he led quite ordered and even measured, it turned out to be bright and saturated, there was a lot of things in it - love and hatred, friends and enemies, meetings and travel, but most importantly - a lot of creativity. About people like him, they say-Self-Made Man is a person who made himself. Before becoming a writer, Maugham worked as a doctor, participated in the First World War, and gaining fame in the literary field, tried himself as an agent of British intelligence, and in this capacity he managed to visit Russia in the midst of the revolutionary events of 1917. The plays of the Somerset Maugham do not leave theatrical stage in our days, his novels have become a classic.

In the application to the biography of the famous writer, his travel essays, translated by the author of the book, are presented.