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Moon and Sixpence
E-bok, 2022
15 kr
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The Moon and Sixpence, is a fictionalized biography of the artist Paul Gauguin. The stand-in character for Gauguin is Charles Strickland, who deserts his wife and children to become a painter. In Paris, he is indifferent to the friendship offered by a fellow artist, Dirk Stroeve. Strickland …
Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts
E-bok, 2015
30 kr
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"The Circle" is a comedy in three acts. Young Lady Catherine is to leave her husband (and her son Arnold) in favour of her lover. 30 years later, young Elizabeth (Eleanor Boardman) is facing the same choice between her husband (the now grown Arnold, and lover. In the meantime, Arnold''s mother Lady …
Liza of Lambeth
E-bok, 2015
30 kr
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Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham''s first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth,then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her ageing mother in the …
Land of Promise
E-bok, 2015
30 kr
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Most readers of the novels and plays of Somerset Maugham will not immediately associate him with Canada; he did, however, travel to western Canada once, in December 1912, to do research for his drama The Land of Promise, first performed in the United States in December 1913 and first published in …
Explorer
E-bok, 2015
30 kr
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"The Explorer" is a story of the proud Allertons whose fortune has been squandered, and whose three-hundred-year estate Hamlyn''s Purlieu stands to be lost to the family. Lucy and George Allerton, brother and sister, are resolved to overcome the mistakes of their father, Fred Allerton. A powerful …
Magician
E-bok, 2015
30 kr
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The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister …
Trembling of a Leaf
E-bok, 2015
30 kr
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After working in British Intelligence during World War I, William Somerset Maugham set off to regain his health by traveling to Asia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands. During this trip he gather materials and wrote the stories that appeared in 1921 in "The Trembling of a Leaf".
Moon and Sixpence
E-bok, 2015
29 kr
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The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged eng stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to …
Making of a Saint
E-bok, 2015
30 kr
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The narrator and central figure is Filippo Brandolini. He tells the story of his young-adult life--romance and adventure. Filippo joins forces with friends Checco and Mateo to overthrow Giralomo Riario, who rules over and exploits the town of Forli. Giralomo falls; Checco and Mateo fall; …
Land of The Blessed Virgin
E-bok, 2015
29 kr
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"The Land of The Blessed Virgin" Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia is a travelogue of Somerset Maugham''s travels in Spain.
Mrs Craddock
E-bok, 2019
30 kr
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Mrs Craddock is a novel by William Somerset Maugham first published in 1902. Set in the final years of the 19th century, Mrs Craddock is about a young and attractive woman of independent means who marries beneath her. As he had written about a subject that was considered daring at the time, Maugham …
Merry-Go-Round
E-bok, 2019
30 kr
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Somerset Maugham was one of the world''s most prolific and popular authors. He wrote with great facility and at one time had four plays running simultaneously in four different London theaters. The "merry-go-round" was his term for London at the turn of the century. His narrator, Miss Ley, is a …
On a Chinese Screen
E-bok, 2020
30 kr
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On a Chinese Screen, also known as On a Chinese Screen: Sketches of Life in China, is a travel book by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1922. It is a series of short sketches Maugham made during a trip along the Yangtze River in 1919-1920, and although ostensibly about China the book is …
Ashenden Or the British Agent
E-bok, 2020
29 kr
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Ashenden: Or the British Agent is a 1928 collection of loosely linked stories by W. Somerset Maugham. It is partly based on the author''s experience as a member of British Intelligence in Europe during the First World War. (Wikipedia)
Colored mask
E-bok, 2024
55 kr
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The Colored Mask is a novel that appears from a distance to be about the famous triangle that has been dealt with in many major international novels: the wife, the husband, and the lover. But it is about a rich, difficult and disturbing journey within the human soul. Where a person admits his …
Lisa is a Lambeth girl
E-bok, 2024
42 kr
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Lisa the Girl of Lambeth by Somerset Maugham... "And Tom had been waiting, since the beginning of the journey, for this happy moment, hoping that Lisa''s coldness would dissolve after she filled her stomach with food and drink, and he imagined himself sitting with her on the grass under a shady …
the artist
E-bok, 2024
42 kr
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In this novel, the famous English novelist Somerset Maugham tells the story of an artist who lived an ordinary life and suddenly left everything, his wife and children, for her.We will know that this person is the famous painter Paul Gauguin, far from the city, living on the remote island of …
Rain
E-bok, 2024
62 kr
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"I realized that Davidson had guided him to love this woman, as much as he went to extremes in persecuting her... He realized that he was throwing himself into the arms of sin at the same time that he was struggling to save this woman from its clutches. And he realized that the man who struggled to …
Dream Island
E-bok, 2025
77 kr
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This novel is considered one of the literary gems of the English writer William Somerset Maugham, who is considered one of the leading voices in early twentieth-century English literature and one of the highest-grossing writers of the 1930s. Maugham, known for his diverse works ranging from novels, …
