W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099289708
A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in ASHENDEN are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099282778
"Cakes and Ale" is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286844
Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the Blessed Virgin as though she were her own mother. But in the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286851
At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a happy disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one in his father's business...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099287391
This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story "Rain"...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099428848
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam'...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099428855
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's "Collected Short Stories", contains the celebrated series about a secret service agent in World War I. Accountable only to 'R'...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099428862
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9781405073226
Maugham, the quintessential observer of human behaviour, tells the stories of : The Creative Impulse, The Round Dozen and Jane.
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099289401
A paean to Spain's golden age of enormous creative energy, "Don Fernando" begins with the vivid tale of Loyola's life and conversion, discusses the writings of St Teresa and the paintings of El Greco...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099282846
A selection of Somerset Maugham stories inspired by his travels in Singapore, Malaya and other British possessions, and providing insights into the life and history of these exotic outposts of Empire.
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286776
Best Known for his novels and plays, Somerset Maugham also produced the most delightfully engaging and absorbing non-fiction, of which The Gentleman in the Parlour is a prime example. First published in 1935 it is the account of a journey the author took from Rangoon to Haiphong. Whether by river to Mandalay...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099289005
Set in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley. At the start of this compulsive gothic horror story...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780413713001
'One of the most admired and widely read authors of this century This first volume of Somerset Maugham''s collected plays includes Sheppey, his last and best comedy of a Cockney barber who determines to give his sweepstake winnings to the poor...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780413713100
'One of the most admired and widely read authors of this century. W. Somerset Maugham established his reputation as a master of the English social comedy in the tradition of Oscar Wilde with Lady Frederick in 1907...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099288701
A trio of stories portraying the vivid spectrum of life in Edwardian London - from the backstreets to the suburbs and high society - seen through the eyes of one character...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099288800
Rejected by publisher after publisher, this novel of a passionately sensual young Victorian woman was finally published only on the condition that various "shocking" passages were removed...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286882
This sea tale par excellence evolved from a passage in "The Moon and Sixpence," written twelve years earlier.
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286875
The story of the lovely but shallow Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong and of her husband’ s revenge.
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099507390
'She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. "I've got all the proof necessary" '. Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099288909
The essays collected in this volume, the last that Somerset Maugham published, include an appreciation of Goethe's novels, an encounter with an Indian holy man and an evaluation of the short story form.
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286899
Written when he was 64, this autobiography from Somerset Maugham provides an insight into the author's craft, and his thoughts and feelings about style...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286783
In this classic guide, Maugham introduces and discusses what he considers to be the ten greatest novels and their authors. Here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286837
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions. Off stage...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099286868
Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli...
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W Somerset Maugham
ISBN:9780099478324
Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint...
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