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A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
$29.99 NZD
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From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating ...Show more
Ashenden : Vintage Classics by W. Somerset Maugham
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. This title collects stories that are rooted in author's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and tre ...Show more
Best Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. Somerset Maugham
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Ten of W. Somerset Maugham's wonderful stories in one gorgeous collector's volume.Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risqu� tales of an old, dear and rather wicked friend. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous character ...Show more
Christmas Holiday (Vintage Christmas) by W. Somerset Maugham
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This title is exclusively available from Vintage Classics. At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a happy disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one in his father's business, he is now looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with Simon Fenimo ...Show more
Collected Short Stories Volume 1 - W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
$34.99 NZD
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
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
$14.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
"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 Painted Veil by W.Somerset Maugham
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. "I've got all the proof necessary"'. Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsati ...Show more
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled by his persistence - and at last wildly but dangerously in love.
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