Far And Wide: Nine Novels
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few writers of the twentieth century command the narrative range and psychological precision of W. Somerset Maugham, and Far and Wide: Nine Novels — Volume Two of a two-volume set selected by the author himself — stands as a testament to that remarkable breadth. This carefully curated anthology gathers nine of Maugham's finest long-form works, each a self-contained world populated by morally complex characters navigating the tensions of love, ambition, betrayal, and social convention across the British Empire and beyond. Maugham's prose is celebrated for its cool, ironic detachment and its deceptively simple clarity — a style that masks a deeply penetrating intelligence at work beneath every sentence. As one of the most widely read English-language novelists of his era, his fiction chronicles lives lived at the margins of respectability, illuminating the quiet hypocrisies of society with wit and unflinching candour. That the author himself selected these works for posterity only deepens their significance, making Far and Wide an essential companion for any reader wishing to understand why Maugham's reputation endures long after the world he depicted has vanished.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few writers of the twentieth century command the narrative range and psychological precision of W. Somerset Maugham, and Far and Wide: Nine Novels — Volume Two of a two-volume set selected by the author himself — stands as a testament to that remarkable breadth. This carefully curated anthology gathers nine of Maugham's finest long-form works, each a self-contained world populated by morally complex characters navigating the tensions of love, ambition, betrayal, and social convention across the British Empire and beyond. Maugham's prose is celebrated for its cool, ironic detachment and its deceptively simple clarity — a style that masks a deeply penetrating intelligence at work beneath every sentence. As one of the most widely read English-language novelists of his era, his fiction chronicles lives lived at the margins of respectability, illuminating the quiet hypocrisies of society with wit and unflinching candour. That the author himself selected these works for posterity only deepens their significance, making Far and Wide an essential companion for any reader wishing to understand why Maugham's reputation endures long after the world he depicted has vanished.