Contributions To Periodicals
This list represents in chronological order the first printing date of every article or contribution made by Maugham to journals and periodicals during his lifetime. Maugham often tested his audience and his own interest in a story by serialising it through newspaper or magazine periodicals, then later released the story as a novel, or part of a collected short stories book.
- 1. Don Sebastian 1898
- 2. Cupid and the Vicar of Swale 1900
- 3. Lady Habart 1900
A Really Nice Story 1901
The Image of the Virgin 1901
- 4. Schiffbruchig 1903
- 5. Pro Patria 1903
- 6. A Man of Honour 1903
- 7. A Point of Law 1903
- 8. An Irish Gentleman 1904
The Criminal 1904
- 9. A Rehearsal 1905
- 10. Flirtation 1906
- 11. The Fortunate Painter and the Honest Jew 1906
- 12. A Marriage of Convenience 1908
- 13. The Making of a Millionaire 1906
- 14. Good Manners 1907
- 15. Cousin Amy 1908
- 16. The Happy Couple 1908
- 17. A Traveller in Romance 1909
- 18. The Mother 1909
- 19. Pygmalion at Home and Abroad 1914
- 20. Gerald Festus Kelly 1915
- 21. Mackintosh 1920
- 22. Miss Thompson 1921
- 23. Red 1921
- 24. On Writing for the Films 1921
- 25. The Pool 1921
- 26. Honolulu 1921
- 27. My South Sea Island 1922
- 28. Foreign Devils 1922
- 29. Fear 1922
- 30. A City Built on a Rock 1922
- 31. Philosopher 1922
- 32. Two Studies – Mr Pete & The Vice-Consul 1922
- 33. Taipan 1922
- 34. The Princess and the Nightingale 1922
- 35. Before the Party 1922
- 36. Bewitched 1923
- 37. The Imposters 1923
- 38. Mayhew 1924
- 39. German Harry 1924
- 40. The Force of Circumstance 1924
- 41. In a Strange Land 1924
- 42. The Luncheon 1924
- 43. The Round Dozen 1924
- 44. The Woman Who Wouldn’t Take a Hint 1924
- 45. The Letter 1924
- 46. A Dream 1924
- 47. The Outstation 1924
- 48. The Happy Man 1924
- 49. Salvatore the Fisherman 1924
- 50. Home from the Sea 1925
- 51. The Ant and the Grasshopper 1924
- 52. Mr Know-All 1925
- 53. Novelist or Bond Salesman 1925
- 54. The Widow’s Might 1925
- 55. The Man Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly 1925
- 56. The Code of a Gentleman 1925
- 57. The Yellow Streak 1925
- 58. The Most Selfish Woman I Knew 1925
- 59. The Man with a Scar 1925
- 60. The Great Man 1926
- 61. An Honest Woman 1926
- 62. The End of the Flight 1926
- 63. Another Man without a Country 1926
- 64. Consul 1926
- 65. The Creative Impulse 1926
- 66. The Closed Shop 1927
- 67. Footprints in the Jungle 1927
- 68. Pearls 1927
- 69. Advice to a Young Author 1927
- 70. The Traitor 1927
- 71. One of Those Women 1927
- 72. His Excellency 1928
- 73. The Hairless Mexican 1928
- 74. Mr Harrington’s Washing 1928
- 75. The British Agent 1928
- 76. The Four Dutchmen 1928
- 77. In Hiding 1929
- 78. A Derelict 1929
- 79. The Extraordinary Sex 1929
- 80. Straight Flush 1929
- 81. The Man Who Made His Mark (later retitled as The Verger) 1929
- 82. Through the Jungle 1929
- 83. Mirage 1929
- 84. A Marriage of Convenience 1929
- 85. On the Road to Mandalay 1929
- 86. Cakes and Ale 1930
- 87. Maltreat the Dead in Fiction 1930
- 88. The Human Element 1930
- 89. Virtue 1931
- 90. The Vessel of Wrath 1931
- 91. Maugham Discusses Drama 1931
- 92. Arnold Bennett 1931
- 93. The Right Thing is the Kind Thing 1931
- 94. The Alien Corn 1931
- 95. The Door of Opportunity 1931
- 96. The Temptation of Neil MacAdam 1932
- 97. The Narrow Corner 1932
- 98. For Services Rendered 1932
- 99. The Three Fat Women of Antibes 1933
- 100. The Buried Talent 1934
- 101. The Best Ever 1934
- 102. How I Write Short Stories 1934
- 103. The Short Story 1934
- 104. A Casual Affair 1934
- 105. Appearance and Reality 1934
- 106. The Voice of the Turtle 1935
- 107. Gigolo and Gigolette 1935
- 108. The Lotus Eater 1935
- 109. An Official Position 1937
- 110. The Lion’s Skin 1937
- 111. The Sanatorium 1938
- 112. The Professional Writer 1939
- 113. Doctor and Patient 1939
- 114. Books and You 1939
- 114. You and Some More Books 1939
- 115. The Facts of Life 1939
- 116. A Man with a Conscience 1939
- 117. Christmas Holiday 1939
- 118. Proof Reading as an Avocation 1939
- 119. Classic Books of America 1940
- 120. The Villa on the Hill 1940
- 121. Britain Views the French Navy 1940
- 122. The Refugee Ship 1940
- 123. The Insider Story of the Collapse of France 1940
- 124 The Lion at Bay 1940
- 125 Reading under Bombing 1940
- 126 Give me a Murder 1940
- 127 What Tomorrow Holds 1941
- 128 They are Strange People 1941
- 129 Novelist’s Flight from France 1941
- 130 Little Things of no Consequence 1941
- 131 We Have Been Betrayed 1941
- 132 Escape to America 1941
- 133 Theatre 1941
- 134 Mr Tomkin’s Sitter 1941
- 135 The Culture that is to Come 1941
- 136 An Exciting Prospect 1941
- 137 Paintings I Have Liked 1941
- 138 The Hour Before Dawn 1941
- 139 Why Do You Dislike Us? 1942
- 140 To Know About England and the English 1942
- 141 Morale Made in America 1942
- 142 The Happy Couple 1943
- 143 Virtue 1943
- 144 Unconquered 1943
- 145 The Captain and Miss Reid (later retitled as Winter Cruise) 1943
- 146 Reading and Writing and You 1943
- 147 We Have a Common Heritage 1943
- 148 The Terrorist 1943
- 149 Write about What You Know 1943
- 150 The Razor’s Edge 1943
- 151 How I Like to Play Bridge 1944
- 152 In Defence of Who-Done-Its 1945
- 153 What Reading Can Do For You 1945
- 154 The Colonel’s Lady 1946
- 155 A Woman of Fifty 1946
- 156 Function of the Writer 1946
- 157 Then and Now 1946
- 158 Behind the Story 1946
- 159 Episode 1947
- 160 The Point of Honour 1947
- 161 What Should a Novel Do? 1947
- 162 The Romantic Young Lady 1947
- 163 Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary 1947
- 164 Henry Fielding and Tom Jones 1947
- 165 Honoré De Balzac and Old Man Goriot 1948
- 166 Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights 1948
- 167 Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov 1948
- 168 Stendhal and the Red and the Black 1948
- 169 Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice 1948
- 170 Herman Melville and Moby Dick 1948
- 171 Charles Dickens and David Copperfield 1948
- 172 Catalina 1948
- 173 Spanish Journey 1948
- 174 Ten Best Sellers 1948
- 175 A Writer’s Notebook 1949
- 176 Augustus 1949/1950
- 177 Zurbaran 1950
- 178 After Reading Burke 1950/1951
- 179 Somerset Maugham Tells a Story of the Lady from Poonay 1951
- 180 The Bidding Started Slowly 1952
- 181 Looking Back on Eighty Years 1954
- 182 Somerset Maugham and the Greatest Novels 1954
- 183 The Perfect Gentleman 1955
- 184 On Having My Portrait Painted 1959
- 185 Credo of a Story Teller 1959
- 186 On the Approach of Middle Age 1960
- 187 Looking Back 1962
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“The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the “mainstream” culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn’t think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”
—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)