The Merry-Go-Round

Informationen zum Autor 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. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965 Klappentext Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; Zusammenfassung Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet;

Product details

• Authors: W Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2000
• EAN: 9780099288701
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928870-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1900 to c 1909, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century