The Gentleman in the Parlour is Maughamâs tale of travel through Burma, Indochina and Siam in the 1920âs, told with all of the empathy and sharp-eyed observation of human nature for which the author eventually became...
THE Pacific is inconstant and uncertain like the soul of man. Sometimes it is grey like the English Channel off Beachy Head, with a heavy swell, and sometimes it is rough, capped with white crests, and boisterous. It is not so often that it is calm and...
The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the...
Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers. Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain...
The Moon and Sixpence, is a fictionalized biography of the artist Paul Gauguin. The stand-in character for Gauguin is Charles Strickland, who deserts his wife and children to become a painter. In Paris, he is indifferent to the friendship offered by a...
âThere is something bracing about the sincerity of [Maugham's] style . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of...
"Die Erzählung war Maughams wahres Metier, und einige seiner Erzählungen gehören zu den besten, die je in englischer Sprache geschrieben wurden", so Anthony Burgess. Für alle, die nicht die über 2500 Seiten der :Gesammelten...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...