Catalina - Brossura

Maugham, W. Somerset

Brossura

ISBN 10: 009928684X ISBN 13: 9780099286844

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2001

Riassunto

Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. 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 mischievous satire on absolutism.

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Recensione:

"One of my favourite writers" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

"The modern writer who has influenced me the most" (George Orwell)

"In his prime, he evolved a clear and effective prose style that achieved a quality possessed only by master story-tellers, making the reader greedy for more....From an era that produced George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and John Galsworthy, Maugham is the great survivor" (Economist)

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'The modern writer who has influenced me the most' George Orwell

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 009928684X
• ISBN 13: 9780099286844
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256