
When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries and a celebrated writer, Maugham had the perfect cover, and the assignment appealed to his love of romance, and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in Ashenden are rooted in Maugham's own experi...
Editore
Vintage Classics
Formato
352 pagine
ISBN
9780099289708
Lingua
English
+3 altre edizioni
Caratteristiche
A colori, 352 pagine
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