WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging...
From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 704, Editura: Vintage Publishing, Autor: MAUGHAM W SOMERSET, ISBN-13: 9780593687680, Data emiterii: 2024...
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Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. This vibrant assessment of a great people at their greatest...
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...
A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham's own career. Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. After a few months studying in Heidelberg,...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 576, Editura: Vintage Publishing, Autor: W Somerset Maugham, ISBN-13: 9780099428862, Data emiterii: 2002...
But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...
Laura Wade's re-imagining of Somerset Maugham's subversive comedy about a 1920s heroine with a decidedly modern spirit...
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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...
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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Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection...
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, however, she is bored with her husband,...
But, intelligent and sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life, and finds her love for her husband slipping away. Originally rejected by publishers, Mrs...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 640, Editura: Penguin Publishing Group, Autor: William Somerset Maugham, ISBN-13: 9780140185225, Data emiterii: 1992...
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...
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A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business,...
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...
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 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...
From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical,...
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...
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