Robin Maugham


Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham of Hartfield (17 May 1916 - 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British novelist, playwright and travel writer.
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Maugham - the nephew of the better-known W Somerset Maugham - was a prolific writer, whose output included twenty novels, twelve non-fiction books and several plays.
a comprehensive list of Maugham's works appears on wikipedia 		Robin Maugham



Many of Maugham's novels have characters who are explicitly or implicitly homosexual. His most famous work, the play The Servant, which was adapted for the cinema (screenplay by Harold Pinter; directed by Joseph Losey; starring James Fox and Dirk Bogarde) had a strong homoerotic subtext.




This list includes books by Maugham currently available through Arbery Books. Click the titles for full details, including photographs.


publ'd title and contents edition, price, condition
1945 Come to Dust
 thinly fictionalised account of warfare in the Western Desert 		1st, £35.00, fair
1949 Line on Ginger
novel: ex-army officer tries to trace squaddie who burgled his house 		1st, £30.00, good
1951 The Rough and the Smooth
novel: three strangers deviously involved in a highly-charged emotional relationship 		1974, £10.00, very good
1966 The Green Shade
novel: film director in middle age falls for younger woman 		1st, £9.00, very good
1969 The Link
novel: 1862, a young man from Australia is greeted by the Baronet Steele's widow as her long-lost son; is he really the missing heir or a clever impostor? 		1st, £7.50, good
1970 The Wrong People
novel: Tangier leads a repressed homosexual schoolmaster to a young Arab, love and lust and a monstrous plan . . . 		1st, £15.00, good
1974 The Sign
The Sign paperback
novel: in AD20 a homosexual Jew attempts to create a Messiah out of a handsome young visionary for his own political ends 		1st, £8.50, very good
1975, £5.00, good
1976 Knock on Teak
novel: "a glorious send-up of almost everything which almost everyone tends to take somewhat seriously - from authors and their agents to tourism, trade pacts and politics abroad" 		1st, £6.00, good +
1980 The Corridor
novel: a young actor is torn between his girl friend and the producer who could pave his way to success 		1st, £9.00, very good





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Books by Maugham previously sold by Arbery Books. Click the titles for full details, including photographs.


publ'd title and contents edition, price, condition
1972 Escape from the Shadows
autobiography: the shadows are Maugham's father (a Lord Chancellor) - his world-famous uncle (Somerset Maugham) and his 'other self' 		1st, £8.50, very good




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