W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1991	PDF, 736 страниц, 22.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair.
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Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 1	Penguin Group
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Penguin Group, 1992	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
«These thirty stories, including the piece «Rain», are set in the Pacific Islands, England, France, and Spain.»
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Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 2	Penguin Group
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Penguin Group, 2001	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
«The stories collected here, including «The Alien Corn», «Flotsam and Jetsam», and «The Vessel of Wrath», reconfirm Maugham's stature as one of the masters of the short story.»
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Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 3	Penguin Group
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Penguin Group, 2002	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Maugham learned his craft from Maupassant, and these stories, featuring his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique and remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.
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Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 4	Penguin Group
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Penguin Group, 2001	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
These thirty stories — most set in the colonies at a time when the Empire was still assured, in a world in which men and women were caught between their own essentially European values and the richness and ambiguity of their unfamiliar surroundings — show a master of the genre at the peak of his power.
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Cakes and Ale	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W.Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2000	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
«With an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare «Cakes and Ale» is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature, Maugham's sardonic wit and lyrical warmth expertly combine in this accomplished and unforgettable novel.»
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The Razor's Edge	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W.Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters — his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
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Theatre	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W.Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2001	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.
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The Moon and Sixpence	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W.Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
«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 the life of Paul Gauguin, «The Moon and Sixpence» is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.»
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Up at the Villa	Transworld Publishers
Автор: W.Somerset Maugham Издательство: Transworld Publishers, 2004	PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint, and through him comes to realise that to deny love, with all its passions and risks, is to deny life itself.
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Catalina	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2001	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the Blessed Virgin as though she were her own mother. But in the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, the Church is apt to take a serious view of such an ostentatious claim. The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.
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Collected Short Stories: v: 1	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2000	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
This collection of Somerset Maugham's short stories includes stories based in England, France and Spain, as well as the South Pacific. It includes Rain, the tradgedy of a missionary and a prostitute and The Three Fat Women of Antibes, a sardonic tale of abstention and greed.
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Collected Short Stories: v: 2	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2002	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
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 Vessel of Wrath', a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse and a drunken reprobate. In this second volume of his collected stories, Maugham illustrates his characteristic wry perception of human foibles and his genius for evoking compelling drama from an acute sense of time and place.
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Collected Short Stories: v: 3	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2002	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to 'R', Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister 'hairless Mexican'.
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Ashenden	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2000	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne — under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in ASHENDEN are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as absurdity.
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Far Eastern Tales	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2000	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best — sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human judge of character and soul.
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The Magician	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2000	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Set in the bohemian cafe 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. At the start of this compulsive gothic horror story, Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look forward to an idyllic life together, until they encounter the mesmerising and repulsive Oliver Haddo...
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Short Stories	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 624 страницы, 18.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
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 compelling drama and an acute sense of time and place.
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The Merry-go-round	Random House, Inc.
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a woman's adulterous passion for a young rascal, and finally, an honourable man's decision to take virtue to extremes.
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Best Short Stories	CRW Publishing
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011	PDF, 406 страниц, 12.18 МБ 0 Оценка:
Изящное подарочное издание небольшого формата в тканевом переплете красного цвета и суперобложке. Обрез книги вызолочен с трех сторон. Издание дополнено шелковым ляссе. Somerset Maugham's short stories are among the best-loved in all of English literature. Written at the peak of the author's powers in the 1920s and 30s, this collection includes the immortal South Sea saga, RAIN, famous tales from Malaya THE LETTER, and whimsical stories from the old country including THE COLONEL'S LADY and THE ROUND DOZEN. These classics retain an astonishing freshness, reminding us that the most popular writer of his generation can now be counted among the most enduring storytellers of all time.
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