Far And Wide: Nine Novels
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few writers of the twentieth century captured the breadth of human experience with the precision and elegance of W. Somerset Maugham, and Far and Wide: Nine Novels stands as a remarkable testament to that mastery. This carefully curated anthology, selected by the author himself, brings together nine of Maugham's most celebrated novels, spanning exotic locales from the rain-soaked colonies of the Far East to the drawing rooms of Edwardian England, each narrative driven by morally complex characters navigating ambition, desire, and disillusionment. Maugham's prose is deceptively simple — clean, ironic, and laced with a worldly scepticism that never tips into cynicism — and across these nine works, his gifts as a storyteller are displayed in their full range. The collection chronicles lives lived at the edges of convention, where the veneer of respectability is perpetually at risk of being stripped away, a preoccupation that gives Maugham's fiction its enduring psychological tension. Published by The Companion Book Club in London, Volume One of this edition presents a rare opportunity to immerse oneself in a carefully considered selection from one of Britain's most widely read literary figures — and to wonder, with each turn of the page, just how well Maugham truly understood us all.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few writers of the twentieth century captured the breadth of human experience with the precision and elegance of W. Somerset Maugham, and Far and Wide: Nine Novels stands as a remarkable testament to that mastery. This carefully curated anthology, selected by the author himself, brings together nine of Maugham's most celebrated novels, spanning exotic locales from the rain-soaked colonies of the Far East to the drawing rooms of Edwardian England, each narrative driven by morally complex characters navigating ambition, desire, and disillusionment. Maugham's prose is deceptively simple — clean, ironic, and laced with a worldly scepticism that never tips into cynicism — and across these nine works, his gifts as a storyteller are displayed in their full range. The collection chronicles lives lived at the edges of convention, where the veneer of respectability is perpetually at risk of being stripped away, a preoccupation that gives Maugham's fiction its enduring psychological tension. Published by The Companion Book Club in London, Volume One of this edition presents a rare opportunity to immerse oneself in a carefully considered selection from one of Britain's most widely read literary figures — and to wonder, with each turn of the page, just how well Maugham truly understood us all.