William Somerset Maugham

Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction b…

The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in …

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…