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The Painted Veil by W.Somerset Maugham
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
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 Waiter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfi ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more
The Painted Veil (Vintage Deco) by W. Somerset Maugham, W Somerset Maugham
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference';;Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an ...Show more
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance e Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate ...Show more
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate Am ...Show more
The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, this book is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
The Vagrant Mood: Six Essays by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Culture
"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; and, from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of l ...Show more
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
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.
Then and Now by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Classic
Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction
In a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate, Mary Leonard will witness bloodshed, be forced to seek assistance from an unsavory man, and have to face the truth about her own yearnings. Soon to be a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn. ...Show more
Up at the Villa by MAUGHAM W SOMERSET
Category: Classic Fiction
Set in a beautiful villa high in the hills above Florence, this seductive and moving novel reveals the full power of desperate love. Mary Panton ignores her desires in the calm of the villa as she contemplates her loveless marriage, but a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that dest ...Show more