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Best Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. Somerset Maugham
19.99 AUD
Category: 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
14.99 AUD
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
24.99 AUD
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
Collected Short Stories, Volume 4 by W. Somerset Maugham
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice, the stories range from 'The Lotus Eater' in which a man has a vision of a life of bliss in ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Plays by W. Somerset Maugham
49.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Maugham Plays Ser.
In his day, W. Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright, and the breadth of his ability is manifested in this collection of his most popular plays. Included here are the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife, and Our Betters, and the sharp-witt ...Show more
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
The Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
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 ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
14.99 AUD
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
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
26.99 AUD
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
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