William Somerset Maugham - самые популярные книги

Роман "Пироги и пиво, или Скелет в шкафу", вышедший в свет в 1930 году, был объявлен критикой одним из "высочайших достижений британской романистики". В центре произведения - жизнь талантливого писателя и его жены. Автор блестяще рисует атмосферу литературной среды, ее нравы, а...

Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham’s talent as a playwright. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense...

After a lonely boyhood, and the painful ordeal of his schooldays, Philip's yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to London to study medicine. Here, a tortured and one-sided love affair with Mildred, a vulgar...

Another classic travel book from Maugham; fierce and colourful throughout.Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with...

Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint, and through him...

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A tense potboiler set on an exotic Pacific island by one of the 20th century's bestselling authors.On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from...

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