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Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham (17 May 1916 – 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British author. Trained as a barrister, he served with distinction in the Second World War, and wrote a successful novella, The Servant, later filmed with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox.
May 13, 2024 · Robin Maugham (born May 17, 1916, London, Eng.—died March 13, 1981, Brighton) was an English novelist, playwright, and travel writer, who achieved some fame and no little notoriety with his first novel, The Servant (1948).
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Mar 14, 1981 · Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, the British author who wrote under the name Robin Maugham, died yesterday after a long illness in Brighton, England. He was 64 years old.
Robin Maugham is the author of The Servant (3.73 avg rating, 344 ratings, 72 reviews, published 1948), The Wrong People (3.76 avg rating, 108 ratings, 25...
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Set in London just after the Second World War, Robin Maugham's slim, haunting novella is a confessional tale told in a simple, urgent voice by one Richard Merton. He tells the story of Tony, a close friend from the war, who—breaking links with old friends and habits—steadily comes under the influence of his sinister new butler, Barrett.
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Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham (17 May 1916- 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British novelist, playwright and travel writer. He was born into a legal dynasty and was expected to follow his father and grandfather and devote himself to the law.
Over the next thirty years, Maugham would be one of England’s most popular writers, publishing some twenty volumes of fiction and a dozen nonfiction works, including travel writing, biographies of his uncle, and the autobiography Escape from the Shadows (1972), which dealt frankly with the three “shadows” over Maugham’s life: his father ...
