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Maugham is one of the most readable major novelists in English, and the usual entry point is the one that puts people off: Of Human Bondage, seven hundred pages of thinly veiled autobiography. Start instead with the two short, ruthless novels that show what he does best, work through the literary comedy and the theatre novel, and only then take on the long books.

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Maugham is one of the most readable major novelists in English, and the usual entry point is the one that puts people off: Of Human Bondage, seven hundred pages of thinly veiled autobiography. Start instead with the two short, ruthless novels that show what he does best, work through the literary comedy and the theatre novel, and only then take on the long books.
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A strong starting point is The Painted Veil by William Somerset Maugham. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.

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