Short Stories - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 314043121X ISBN 13: 9783140431217

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Biographie de l'auteur:

William Somerset Maugham 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 the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. 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. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965.

Quatrième de couverture:

'His plots are cool and deadly, and his timing is absolutely flawless' Raymond Chandler

Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his great range is well represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as 'Rain', 'The Letter', 'The Vessel of Wrath' and 'The Alien Corn', Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compelling drama and an acute sense of time and place.

SELECTED BY ANTHONY CURTIS

See also: Far Eastern Tales

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• ISBN 10: 314043121X
• ISBN 13: 9783140431217
• Rilegatura: Broché