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Collected Short Stories Volume 1 - W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser.
"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', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abst ...Show more
Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction
FAR EASTERN TALES is a collection of short stories which have never before appeared together. They are all born of his experience in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle or the remembered East ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
Short Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction
"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 of Wrath' and 'The Alien Corn', Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compel ...Show more
The Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage classics
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more
The Painted Veil (Vintage Deco) by W. Somerset Maugham, W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference';;Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an ...Show more
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate Am ...Show more
Up at the Villa by MAUGHAM W SOMERSET
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Category: Fiction
Set in a beautiful villa high in the hills above Florence, this seductive and moving novel reveals the full power of desperate love. Mary Panton ignores her desires in the calm of the villa as she contemplates her loveless marriage, but a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that dest ...Show more
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