Collected Short Stories Volume 3

€14.90


Shipping in 4/5 days

Product Information

ISBN9780099428855
AuthorsW. Somerset Maugham
PublisherVintage Publishing
FormatPaperback
Number of pages304
Weight (kg)0.218
Publishing Date07/02/2002
Price (excl. tax)€14.06
Tax€0.84
Price (incl. tax)€14.90
Availability9 units in external warehouse

Product Description

The third volume of Somerset Maugham''s Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham''s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to ''R'', Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister ''hairless Mexican''.