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On A Chinese Screen (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know.
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The Vagrant Mood (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to... Læs mere
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The Magician (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Set in the bohemian café society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley.
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The Narrow Corner (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to... Læs mere
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Of Human Bondage (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Philip's yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to London to study medicine. Here, a tortured and... Læs mere
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The Summing Up (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo.
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Of Human Bondage: 100th Anniversary Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Gentleman In The Parlour (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own.
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Plays Volume Two (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense colonial drama The Letter.
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