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The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam," "The Man With the Sca,r" and "The Vessel of Wrath."For more than seventy years, …
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These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the Turtle," and "Before the Party."For more than seventy years, Penguin has …
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『アシェンデン』は、英国の作家ウィリアム・サマセット・モームが、1928年に発表した連作短編小説で、ロシア革命時の実体験に基づく、スパイ小説の古典とされる。 主人公アシェンデンによる、作家兼情報部員としての体験手記の形で物語が進む。モームの代表作の一つで、多く重版され、日本語訳も「月と六ペンス」と並び多くの版元で刊行された。 実際にモームは1910年代、第一次世界大戦半ばに、従軍軍医から英国諜報機関へ転属勤務となり、ソビエト連邦成立直前のロシア・ペトログラードへ向かい工作活動を行った。 …
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The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, in which he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham …
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Set in a villa in the hills above Florence, this moving novel reveals the power of desperate love. Mary Panton ignores her desires as she contemplates her loveless marriage, but a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that destroys her serenity.
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Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's …