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Collected Short Stories Volume 1 - W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser.
"This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abst ...Show more
Collected Short Stories, Volume 2 by W. Somerset Maugham
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; 'The Man with the Scar', and notably the opening story 'The ...Show more
Collected Short Stories, Volume 4 by W. Somerset Maugham
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser.
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice, the stories range from 'The Lotus Eater' in which a man has a vision of a life of bliss in ...Show more
Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics
From one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories. Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached the pinnacle of his art. These expertly told tales, wi ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
Short Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
"Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is 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 compel ...Show more
The Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by ...Show more
The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The Moon and Sixpence, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maughamas reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more
The Painted Veil (Vintage Deco) by W. Somerset Maugham, W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference';;Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an ...Show more
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate Am ...Show more
The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, this book is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
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