...The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM TOGETHER WITH A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA... ...S S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... with the Impressionists, whose pictures had recently been accepted by the Luxembourg. T o 5 Maugham my shame, I must admit that I could not make hea... ... the Boulevard Saint Michel, and were sauntering now in the gardens of the Luxembourg. Dr Porhoët walked with stooping shoulders, his hands be hind h... ... completes with its fountain of Cupids the enchanting artificiality of the Luxembourg. The sun shone more kindly now, and the trees which framed the s... ... it was with a little pang, her mind aglow with characters and events from history and from fic tion, that she turned away to enter Dr Porhoët’s hous... ...s all very romantic and extraordinary and ridiculous.’ ‘This, then, is its history. Moses, who was learned in all the wisdom of Egypt, was first initi... ...of it, and it is certainly very fine. His forebears have been noted in the history of En gland since the days of the courtier who accompanied Anne of...

...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which ...