Up At The Villa (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Up At The Villa (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint, and through him comes to realise that to deny love, with all its passions and risks, is to deny life

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

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

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

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

Best Short Stories (Somerset Maugham W)(Pevná vazba)

Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risque tales of an old, dear and rather wicked friend. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous characters, are transported to the very place, the villa, the street, the bar, of

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

From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies and stands as a superbly entertaining and compelling testament to Maugham's skill and power as a short

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Included here are the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife, and Our Betters, and the sharp-witted drama Sheppey. Whether suspenseful or acerbically witty, these plays take a sly look at the idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies of their

Merry Go Round (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying

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

Of Human Bondage (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback)

Desperate for love and eager for experience of a wider world, Philip Carey grows up in the oppressive confines of his uncle's vicarage. The sensitive orphan is burdened by a club foot that sets him apart from his schoolmates and heightens his loneliness. Seeking passion and inspiration, he pursues

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

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

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