For Services Rendered and Other Plays by W. Somerset Maugham

For Services Rendered lays bare the horror, futility and misery of the First World War. Simultaneously applauded by the critics with glowing reviews and berated by others as malevolent propaganda, this controversial work divided the literary world in two. The Letter tells the story of the sensational tragedy which results from a wife’s infidelity in Malaya. Home and Beauty tells the comic story of a woman who finds herself the wife of two men, and subject of the affections of a third, in a delightfully misanthropic treatment of marriage. Lady Frederick is a satirical portrait of a middle-aged adventuress, who relieves herself of heavy debts by marrying the besotted Lord Mereston and then decides to disillusion him.