Painted Veil (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Painted Veil (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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... First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual

Cakes And Ale (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Collected Short Stories Volume 2 (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Ashenden (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue

Short Stories (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this

Writer's Notebook (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and

Points of View (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story - they present the enduring views and

On A Chinese Screen (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 with the life they

Then And Now (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of

Collected Stories (Maugham W. Somerset)(Pevná vazba)

Collected Short Stories Volume 4 (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human

Collected Short Stories Volume 3 (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War

Summing Up (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 a personal

Plays Volume Two (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense colonial drama The

Mrs Craddock (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 Craddock was first published only on condition that certain 'shocking' passages were

Catalina (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully

Don Fernando (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 hour is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong enchantment

Moon And Sixpence (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a

Gentleman In The Parlour (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 journeys with an urbane, wry style all his

Vagrant Mood (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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 incisive character sketch to the genre of

Narrow Corner (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Kanda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancee, the cool

Far Eastern Tales (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best - sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human judge of character and

Christmas Holiday (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with one of his oldest

Magician (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

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