W. Somerset Maugham
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1,790 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And what he died of?
One summer evening.
While strolling with considerable difficulty over Russian Hill, San Francisco, Mr Grill espied a man standing upon the extreme summit, with a pensive brow and a suit of clothes, which seemed to have been handed down through a long line of ancestors from a remote Jew pedlar.
Mr Girl respectfully saluted.
A man who has any clothes at all is to him an object of veneration.
The stranger opened the conversation.
My son, said he, in a tone suggestive of strangulation by the sheriff.
Do you behold this wonderful city, its wharves crowded with the shipping of all nations?
Mr Greel beheld with amazement.
Twenty one years ago, alas, I
It used to be but twenty, but
And he wiped away a tear.
You might have bought the whole dern thing for a Mexican ounce.
Mr Grill hastened to proffer a paper of tobacco, which disappeared like a wisp of oats drawn into a threshing machine.
I was one among the first who
Mr Grill hit him on the head with a paving stone, by way of changing the topic.
Young man, continued he
Do you feel this balmy breeze?
There isn't a climate in the world, Mr.
This melancholy relic broke down in a fit of coughing.
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