The Great Exotic Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham

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THE OREAT EXOTIC NOVELS AND SHOIiT 5TORIES OE Somerset M a u g h a m Three complete novels and four major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth centurys most enduringly popular fiction writers From London to Hong Kong. from Paris to Pago Pago. in Samoa or Malaya or a Tahitian tropical paradise, the men and women in this collection of masterfully crafted tales inhabit exotic. mysterious worids-and at their own peril invade the dark territory of the humán heart. Famously based on the life of Paul Gauguin. The Moon and Sixpence proves love and art to be as incompatible as Europe and Tahiti, when the painter Charles Strickland (memorably played by George Sanders in the screen version) sacrifices the love of his wife. the good will of his friends. and the life of his mistress on the altar of his own genius. No less compellingly. in the steamy. cholera-ridden precincts of British colonial Hong Kong. The Painted Veil follows the passionate and adulterous Kitty Fane on her... Tovább

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THE OREAT EXOTIC NOVELS AND SHOIiT 5TORIES OE Somerset M a u g h a m Three complete novels and four major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth centurys most enduringly popular fiction writers From London to Hong Kong. from Paris to Pago Pago. in Samoa or Malaya or a Tahitian tropical paradise, the men and women in this collection of masterfully crafted tales inhabit exotic. mysterious worids-and at their own peril invade the dark territory of the humán heart. Famously based on the life of Paul Gauguin. The Moon and Sixpence proves love and art to be as incompatible as Europe and Tahiti, when the painter Charles Strickland (memorably played by George Sanders in the screen version) sacrifices the love of his wife. the good will of his friends. and the life of his mistress on the altar of his own genius. No less compellingly. in the steamy. cholera-ridden precincts of British colonial Hong Kong. The Painted Veil follows the passionate and adulterous Kitty Fane on her personal descent into hell. And in The Magician, among the haunts of European high society. a satanist takes dark and sinister revenge on the young woman who dares to spum him. Included in this volume. too. are four classic Maugham short stories-including "The Letter" and his sultry tale of sexuality and hypocrisy. "Rain," which were adapted for the screen as star vehicles for, respectively. Bette Davis and joan Crawford. W. Somerset Maugham is perhaps the most widely read author since Charles Dickens and best known for the novels Of Humán Bondage, Cakes and Ale. and The Razor's Edge. He died in 1965, at the age of ninety-one. Vissza