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Language
English
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Description
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair.
4) The letter
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.
Series
Studio classic volume 30
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A rich young man spends his time between WWI & WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
Author
Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 270
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1950]
Language
English
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
This brilliant new anthology collects 86 of the most beautiful, provocative and moving flash fiction narratives, which are very short stories usually no more than 750 words, from around the world that challenge readers to expand their horizons and celebrate both the local and universal.
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