{"product_id":"2026200018278-secondhand-far-and-wide-nine-novels","title":"Far And Wide: Nine Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nMaugham'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022638711003,"sku":"2026200018278-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5a8638e3-4e67-464f-baa9-1d21413b6250.png?v=1793665349","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018278-secondhand-far-and-wide-nine-novels","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}