Creatures of Circumstance - Couverture souple

Maugham, W. Somerset

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1412811740 ISBN 13 : 9781412811743

Editeur : Transaction Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

Creatures of Circumstance begins with an explanation from the author telling how this collection came about. He states that he "has never pretended to be anything but a story teller. It has amused me to tell stories and I have told a great many. It is a misfortune for me that the telling of a story just for the sake of the story is not an activity that is in favor with the intelligentsia. I endeavor to bear my misfortunes with fortitude." The short stories in this extraordinary collection-with the exception of one-were written after the close of World War I. Maugham shrewdly and brilliantly exploited the public taste of his time to put on display the changing morality of the twentieth century. An expert storyteller, he was also a master of fictional technique. His fiction offers a synthesis of pleasures in the form of realism, exoticism, shrewd and ironic observation, careful craftsmanship, and characteriation. Among the stories included in Creatures of Circumstance are "The Colonel's Lady," "Flotsam and Jetsam," "Sanatorium," "Appearance and Reality," "The Point of Honor," "A Woman of Fifty," "The Man from Glasgow," and "The Kite."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transaction Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1412811740
• ISBN 13: 9781412811743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 375
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• Personne responsable: non disponible