The Moon and Sixpence
ISBN-13:
9780099284765
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.09.1999
Seiten:
224
Autor:
W. Somerset Maugham
Gewicht:
172 g
Format:
199x132x18 mm
Serie:
Vintage Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook.
Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvigoration of this neglected 20th century master
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