The Narrow Corner [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Maugham, W. Somerset

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099286882 ISBN 13: 9780099286882

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2001

Riassunto

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 fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.

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Recensione:

"Maugham had a narrow but profound gift for domesticating the strange and making the exotic appear reassuringly familiar" (Nicholas Shakespeare Daily Telegraph)

"The fictional summa of everything Maugham had seen and learned about the East" (Washington Post)

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

"He puts most 21st-century novelists to shame" (Rachel Cooke Observer)

Descrizione del libro:

A tense potboiler set on an exotic Pacific island by one of the 20th century's bestselling authors.

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099286882
• ISBN 13: 9780099286882
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224