W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories

Cover: 9780140185911 | Collected Short Stories | Volume 3 | W. Somerset Maugham | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

This third volume of Maugham's stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Über den Autor

An English author best renowned for his plays, novels, and short stories was William Somerset Maugham. After completing his studies in England, Maugham enrolled in a university in Germany. He spent his first ten years of life in Paris, where he was born. He enrolled at a medical school in London, where he graduated with a medical degree in 1897. He stopped being a doctor and started working as a writer full-time. His first work, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a study of life in the slums, attracted attention, although he first achieved national notoriety as a playwright. He had four plays running simultaneously in London's West End by 1908. In 1933, he finished writing his 32nd and final play. Thereafter, he gave up writing plays and focused on writing novels and short tales. Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), The Painted Veil (1925), Cakes and Ale (1930), and The Razor's Edge are among Maugham's books that came following Liza of Lambeth (1944). His short stories have been published in collections like The Casuarina Tree (1926) and The Mixture as Before (1940). Highbrow critics had negative reactions to his enormous popularity and sales, and many of them tried to denigrate him by calling him.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Collected Short Stories Volume 3Preface
Miss King
The Hairless Mexican
Giulia Lazzari
The Traitor
His Excellency
Mr. Harrington's Washing
Sanatorium

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	1993
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140185911
ISBN-10:	0140185917
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Maugham, W. Somerset
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, vertrieb@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	197 x 129 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	W. Somerset Maugham
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.1993
Gewicht:	0,283 kg

Artikel-ID: 101445393

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Collected Short Stories Volume 3Preface
Miss King
The Hairless Mexican
Giulia Lazzari
The Traitor
His Excellency
Mr. Harrington's Washing
Sanatorium

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	1993
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140185911
ISBN-10:	0140185917
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Maugham, W. Somerset
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, vertrieb@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	197 x 129 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	W. Somerset Maugham
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.1993
Gewicht:	0,283 kg