Collected Short Stories Volume 1 [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099287390 ISBN 13: 9780099287391

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2025

Riassunto

Questa classica raccolta di storie si sposta dall'Inghilterra, dalla Francia e dalla Spagna alle sabbie argentate del Pacifico meridionale. Include il famoso racconto "Rain", la tragedia di un missionario dalla mentalità ristretta e troppo zelante e di una prostituta, e "The Three Fat Women of Antibes", un racconto stravagantemente sarcastico di astensione e avidità, oltre a una serie di altri racconti brillanti.

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Informazioni sull?autore

William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. His first play, A Man of Honour, was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey.

His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His other works include travel books such as On a Chinese Screen, and Don Fernando, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook.

In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099287390
• ISBN 13: 9780099287391
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia