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Liza of Lambeth

novel by Maugham

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  • W. Somerset Maugham
    In W. Somerset Maugham

    …obstetrician in his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), and its success, though small, encouraged him to abandon medicine. He traveled in Spain and Italy and in 1908 achieved a theatrical triumph—four plays running in London at once—that brought him financial security. During World War I he worked as a…

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