Author, playwright and playboy W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was well-placed to utter his wonderful description of the French Riviera - 'a sunny place for shady people'. Somerset Maugham dominated the stage and silver screen with his portrayal of humanity – from The Razor’s Edge which explored war and wartime generations to Of Human Bondage which explored drugs and the underworld of women and men. The most louche of all the expatriates who congregated on the beautiful stretch of coast between Nice and Monaco before World War II, the prolific writer held court at his fabulous mansion, the Villa Mauresque, in glamorous Cap Ferrat.

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Glenys Roberts, "The First Superstar Novelist", The Daily Mail, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...

Maugham's Gay Life, Library Thing, https://www.librarything.com/topic/10...

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