takes to water."РMarriageРDuring his year in Heidelberg Maugham met and had a sexual affair with John Ellingham Brooks, an Englishman ten years his senior. Although homosexual, Maugham entered into a relationship with Syrie e, an American-born English pharmaceutical magnate. Henry e sued his wife for divorce,naming Maugham as co-respondent.The marriage was unhappy,and Syrie divorced him in 1929, finding his relationship and travels with Haxton too difficult to live with.РMarriageРMaugham's love life was almost never smooth. He once confessed: "I have most loved people who cared little or nothing for me and when people have loved me I have been embarrassed ... In order not to hurt their feelings, I have often acted a passion I did not feel.РSection 2РWorks and writing styleРdramaРLong novel