Product Description Set in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley. At the start of this compulsive gothic horror story, Arthur and his beautiful,...
Produced by Edward Norton and Naomi Watts, The Painted Veil works well as a movie--even better as an actor's showcase. The year is 1925. When her domineering mother pressures her to marry, Kitty (Watts) settles for shy bacteriologist Walter (Norton). Then Walter is transferred from London to...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)From one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories.Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached the pinnacle of...
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of four novels, including the highly successful, highly suspenseful After You'd Gone, which won a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; My Lover's Lover; and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. Born in Northern...
A classic suspense film directed by William Wyler, this drama stars Bette Davis as a woman accused of murder. She says it was self-defense, but will a mystery letter save her or condemn her? Herbert Marshall and Gale Sondergaard also star in this taut thriller, based on the play by W. Somerset...
CHRIS CLEAVE is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. His first novel, Incendiary, was published in twenty countries; won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award; was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize; won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Award;...
Is there any group of islands in the world as romantic as the Society Islands? Or as beautiful, for that matter? Doubtful. They inspired a mutiny on the infamous Bounty. They captured the imagination of Paul Gauguin. They've been immortalized by some of the world's great writers from Herman...
1. ULYSSES by James Joyce 1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand | 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand | 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce 3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard | 4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R....
First Love, Last Rites : Stories (Vintage International)
Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection <b>First Love, Last Rites</b> brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out...
* 1984 by George Orwell * A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens * A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens * Aesop's Fables by Aesop * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll * Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen * Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy * Anne of Green Gables...
CATALINA W. Somerset Maugham 1948 Hard Cover Classic NR
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In the opening sequence of The Letter, director William Wyler delivers a primer on film directing: at a rubber plantation, in the tropical funk of a Malaysian night, the heavy stillness is suddenly broken by shots... and a woman with a gun, descending a staircase. She is the wife of the ...
The Moon and Sixpence<.I>, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham's reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he...
The Moon and Sixpence (Dover Value Editions) (Paperback)
"[A] witty, compelling roman à clef...that mock[s] the way the world makes saints of the sinners who are often its best artists." -The Boston Globe "It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham.......
William Somerset Maugham is considered one of the best authors of the 20th century. After reading this book, I can understand why. His grasp of the human condition is simply phenomenal. He is one of those rare authors that can make his characters leap off the page and become living, breathing...
* ULYSSES by James Joyce * THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald * A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce * LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov * BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley * THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner * CATCH-22 * DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler * SONS AND LOVERS...
Bas Bleu - A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Thirty-Three Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Question: What do you, C. S. Lewis, Harold Bloom, Eudora Welty, W. Somerset Maugham, Alain de Botton, Virginia Woolf, and all of us here at Bas Bleu have in common? Answer: a grand appreciation for Jane Austen! A Truth Universally Acknowledgedan engaging collection of essays (some decades old, some...
About the book: Description: 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...
The Woman in Black (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Ghost Story (Vintage) [Paperback]
Susan Hills novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewellyn Rhys Prizes. Her novels include The Mist in the Mirror, the Simon Serallier crime series, and Im the King of the Castle. She also wrote Mrs. de Winter, the sequel to Rebecca, and her ghost story The...
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's...
The legendary Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is a tantalizing and bizarre subject. As an occult leader, heroin addict, sexual adventurer, misogynist, and visionary, he is the inspiration for many vile Gothic protagonists. Author W. Somerset Maugham even devoted a novel, The Magician, to this...
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On the suject of the Phrase: "It's first recorded in Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, published in 1930: "He'd give his eye-teeth to have written a book half as good." Before that, expressions using eyeteeth related more to becoming an adult, and to acquiring the power...
The interior life of a natural-born introvert is a tricky thing to convey in any story medium, but perhaps nowhere more than in feature films. Fortunately for this 1934 version of Of Human Bondage (the first of three), the introverted young doctor at the center of the story is played by Leslie...
Book Description Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmesthe finest literary biographer of our daymade his name. Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes projects a startling image of "a darker and more...
Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Cakes and Ale, by W. Somerset Maugham, Paperback, 1 VINTAGE
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...
Co-produced and co-starring Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, W. Somerset Maugham's novel comes to life in living color. Beautiful cinematography and symphonic music embellish a wonderful, heart-warming story of love and forgiveness. Kitty (Watts) is getting older. Living in 1920's London, her...
"If Woody Allen is the archetypal East Coast neurotic, Steve Martin is the ultimate West Coast wacko," Maureen Orth wrote for Newsweek in 1977. At the time, Martin was a star on the standup comedy circuit, known for his nose glasses, bunny ears and sudden attacks of "happy feet."...
Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764
Bestiaries are a particularly characteristic product of medieval England, and give a unique insight into the medieval mind. Richly illuminated and lavishly produced, they were luxury objects for noble families. Their three-fold purpose was to provide a natural history of birds, beasts and fishes, to...
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Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham "The Painted Veil" is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty an upper-class woman who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai where she falls in...
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