Limba: , Legare: , Număr pagini: 690, Editura: Penguin Putnam Inc, Autor: William Somerset Maugham, ISBN-13: 9780451530172, Data emiterii: 2007...
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; In this second volume of his collected stories, Maugham illustrates...
Maugham's semiautobiographical masterpiece traces the life of Philip Carey, a lonely, sensitive orphan burdened with a club foot, unattainable artistic aspirations, and a hopeless infatuation...
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When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. The stories collected in Ashenden are...
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence...
Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon...
Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the...
Extremo Oriente ("Far Eastern Tales") es una coleccion de relatos cortos ambientados en la Malasia y Singapur del Imperio Britanico durante los anos 30 del pasado siglo. Son historias...
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In 1915, W. Somerset Maugham released a book titled "Of Human Bondage. " It follows Philip Carey's growth as his sadomasochistic fixation takes over his life. Although he declared,...
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Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as "Rain", "The Letter", "The Vessel...
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Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of...
Limba: , Legare: , Număr pagini: 640, Editura: Penguin Publishing Group, Autor: William Somerset Maugham, ISBN-13: 9780140185225, Data emiterii: 1992...
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel,...
Maugham’s 1915 masterpiece—hailed by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time—is the coming-of-age story of a sensitive young man consumed by an unrequited passion...
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and...
Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness...
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...
Liza of Lambeth (Edition2023)...
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The Magician (Edition2023)...
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Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers...
It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes, ' an extravagantly sardonic tale...
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