Collected Short Stories Volume 1 - Couverture souple

William Somerset Maugham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140018719 ISBN 13 : 9780140018714

Editeur : Penguin, 1977

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A propos du livre

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

Présentation de l'éditeur

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."

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140018719
• ISBN 13: 9780140018714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
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