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At last here is the definitive biography of W. Somerset Maugham, one of the most remarkable and secretive literary figures of the twentieth century. Ted Morgan has penetrated the barriers which for years prevented the creation of a full portrait of this paradoxical writer— barriers set up by Maugham himself, who asked friends to destroy his correspondence, and who instructed his literary executor not to assist any eventual biographers. Following the publication of several fragmentary memoirs and inaccurate biographies, which have served only to heighten the mystery surrounding Maugham's life, Maugham is the first full exploration of the writer and his works. Maugham began his career in the Victorian era and was still writing in the nuclear age-his contemporaries including everyone from Rudyard Kipling to Norman Mailer. Unlike most nineteenth-century authors, Maugham took up writing as a full-time occupation. It made him a millionaire and filled his life with luxury and adventure. At his estate in the South of France he entertained the titled, the wealthy, and the famous — Churchill, the Windsors, the Aga Khan, and countless others. His complicated, sometimes abrasive relationships with such writers as D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, and Noel Coward helped to make him a somewhat dissident figure on the literary scene. His travels through Europe, the Orient, and the South Seas, and his work as a British spy during the world wars provided stories that made him the most widely read English novelist since Dickens. But behind his facade of success and excitement Maugham was an emotional cripple who could not come to terms with his own homosexuality. He married, in an Edwardian attempt to keep up appearances, yet carried on a thirty-year love affair with Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic gambler who became his secretary. In his declining years; after Haxton's death, Maugham tried to disinherit his daughter and adopt Alan Searle, a Cockney youth who succeeded Haxton as his companion. He died a lonely and embittered figure, alienated even from his family, a man (continued from front flap) who had survived the great writers of his age but who still felt overwhelmed by them. In this extensive biography Mr. Morgan examines not only the people and events of Maugham's life but also the ways in which Maugham revealed himself through his fiction: through the alienated hero in Of Human Bondage, who shared Maugham's sado-masochistic view of love; through the short stories of Ashenden, which are at once tales of his espionage and a portrait of the author in middle age; through Cakes and Ale, in which he unwittingly predicted what he would experience in later life, that is, the phenomenon of the aging author —the less he writes, the more famous he becomes. Mr. Morgan's work is the result of five years of research and writing, and is based on material previously undis-closed: over 5,000 of Maugham's letters recovered from research libraries and private collections, including Maughams previously restricted correspondence with his close American friend Bertram Alanson; over 100 letters of Alan Searle; the papers and diaries of Maugham's dear friendS. N. Behrman; and correspondence and interviews with people who knew him, including Ellen Doubleday, Alec Waugh, Rebecca West, Glenway Wescott, and Maugham's daughter, Lady Glendevon, who had, before speaking to Ted Morgan, refused to discuss her father with writers: Maugham is a brilliant work of scholarship, interpretation, and writing, as readable as one of Maugham's own novels, and in every way a classic.60

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The Complete First, Second and Third Seasons Season 1: Contains all 7 Episodes on 3 discs Bryan Cranston gives an Emmy® Award-winning* performance as Walter White, a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Anna Gunn) and physically challenged son (RJ Mitte. Everything changes when Walter receives a startling diagnosis: terminal lung cancer. With only a few years to live and nothing to lose, Walter uses his training as a chemist to cook and sell crystal meth with one of his former students (Aaron Paul). As his status grows, so do his lies, but Walt will stop at nothing to make sure his family is taken care of after he's gone, even if it means putting all their lives on the line. Executive produced by Vince Gilligan and Mark Johnson. Season 2: Contains all 13 Episodes on 4 Discs Walt (Emmy* Award winner* Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) are in way over their heads in Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season. As their partnership reaches new heights, Walt and Jesse begin to see the extremes of the drug trafficking business. Their trademark blue meth is making them rich, but it's getting more difficult than ever for Wait to conceal the truth from his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn), his son Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte and his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank (Dean Norris. Wait struggles to maintain control of his life as he contends with vicious drug dealers, an increasingly distant wife and son, the impending birth of his daughter, and a strung-out business partner - all while battling terminal lung cancer. Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season includes cinematography from Michael Slovis as well as Emmy® Award-winningt editing from Lynne Willingham, A.C.E. Executive produced by Vince Gilligan and Mark Johnson. Season 3: Contains all 13 Episodes on 4 Discs The hit series Breaking Bad returns for a third season with Emmy® winners Bryan Cranston* and Aaron Paul*. Even though his cancer is in remission, chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-maker Walt White (Cranston) still can't catch a break. His wife (Anna Gunn) has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law (Dean Norris) is out to bust him and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead: But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terible price. Executive produced by Vince Gilligan and Mark Johnson.

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