UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks

Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices

Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!

The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts

W. Somerset Maugham

How does All You Can Books work?

All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.

Book Excerpt: 
. . .I meant, how long are you going to stay down here?

[Pg 18]

C.-C. A week.

[There is a moment’s pause. Everyone but Champion-Cheney is slightly embarrassed.

Teddie. I think we’d better chuck our tennis.

Elizabeth. Yes. I want my father-in-law to tell me what they’re wearing in Paris this week.

Teddie. I’ll go and put the rackets away.

[Teddie goes out.

Arnold. It’s nearly one o’clock, Elizabeth.

Elizabeth. I didn’t know it was so late.

Anna. [To Arnold.] I wonder if I can persuade you to take a turn in the garden before luncheon.

Arnold. [Jumping at the idea.] I’d love it.

[Anna goes out of the window, and as he follows her he stops irresolutely.

I want you to look at this chair I’ve ju. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I do not think this is among the author's best works, for at present the only work of the author's I read about in other books is his classic novel Of Human Bondage.  However, when one looks at this book, there is certainly a great deal of value here.  Without knowing more about the life of the auth

A play very much of its time, The Circle, nevertheless touches lightly on themes which continue to have relevance today. Superficially dealing with infidelity and its consequences, there are deeper threads that weave around the war of the sexes, real love, class and sex.
It’s set in the home of a ma

Favorite quotations:

"When you've loved as she's loved you may grow old, but you grow old beautifully."

. . . "But she loved and she dared. Romance is such an illusive thing, you read of it in books, but it is seldom you see it face to face. I can't help it if it thrills me."

"Are you shocked? One sacr

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this play by S. Maugham, although I would hesitate to call this 'A Comedy in Three Acts'... I can think of many other 'comedies' written and performed around the same time as The Circle that were far more funny. Over all it read very smoothly, constantly engaging with no

View More Reviews