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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928683-7
EAN 9780099286837
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband, less disciplined about her behaviour. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928687-5
EAN 9780099286875
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. Unsatisfied by her marriage, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-375-72463-3
EAN 9780375724633
In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham- the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa- introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England- so good, in fact, that perhaps she never ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928739-1
EAN 9780099287391
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 abstention and greed, as well as a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-375-72461-9
EAN 9780375724619
For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid. It should have been a lark, but on his first night Charley meets a woman whose story will forever change his life. For Lydia has seen tragedy. The Russian Revolution displaced her family, left her homeless, fatherless. And for reasons that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-375-72502-9
EAN 9780375725029
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928960-9
EAN 9780099289609
MORE FAR EASTERN TALES brings together a further selection of Somerset Maugham's stories inspired by his travels in Singapore, Malaya and other exotic parts of the former British Empire. Containing some of his best-loved tales, this superbly entertaining and compelling collection is a testament to the skill and power of Maugham as a short story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 9780099289500
EAN 9780099289500
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature: ON A CHINESE SCREEN is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. A series of acute ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928284-6
EAN 9780099282846
FAR EASTERN TALES is a collection of short stories which have never before appeared together. They are all born of his experience in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle or the remembered East of a repatriate's suburban home, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-375-72456-5
EAN 9780375724565
Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius. Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928486-4
EAN 9780099284864
Written during World War II, this novel takes as its theme the Zen Buddhist phrase describing the narrow, painful path to enlightenment. The book describes an over-populated, materialistic society, in which people increasingly turn inwards to the spiritual life in their search for freedom.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928277-8
EAN 9780099282778
When CAKES AND ALE was first published in 1930, it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they saw in its pages recognisable portraits of literary figures now no more. The tumult and the shouting soon died down, leaving the story to take its place as one of the finest of Maugham's novels. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 699 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928496-3
EAN 9780099284963
A powerful evocation of a young man's progress to maturity in the years before World War I; a semi-autobiographical novel of love and the obsession of Philip Carey for the waitress Mildred Rogers.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928476-5
EAN 9780099284765
Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE tells the story of Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker who abandons his wife and children for Prais 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 ...
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A collection of 24 stories, including "The Alien Corn", about an aspiring pianist who commits suicide when told he will never be better than second rate, and "Rain", characteristic of Somerset Maugham's style in its evocation of the atmosphere of hot, wet, tropical Samoa, and neat twist of plot.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75315-2
EAN 9780375753152
Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a sensitive boy born with a clubfoot who is orphaned and raised by a religious aunt and uncle. Philip yearns for adventure, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018593-5
EAN 9780140185935
Maugham's first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it.
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