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The Painted Veil (Vintage Deco) by W. Somerset Maugham, W Somerset Maugham
$26.00 NZD
Category: W. Somerset Maugham | 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 Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
"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
Then and Now by W. Somerset Maugham
$32.00 NZD
Category: W. Somerset Maugham
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.
Vintage Classics: Liza Of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
$30.00 NZD
Category: W. Somerset Maugham | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their passionate affair and Liza' ...Show more
Vintage Classics: Mrs Craddock by W. Somerset Maugham
$32.00 NZD
Category: W. Somerset Maugham
Berta Ley comes of age, inherits her father's money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent and sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her opp ...Show more
Vintage Classics: Points Of View by W. Somerset Maugham
$30.00 NZD
Category: W. Somerset Maugham
Features essays ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story. This title presents the views and opinions of this eminent writer.