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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 3

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

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.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Don Fernando

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure.

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness,,....

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Painted Veil

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Then and Now

RANDOM HOUSE, 2001

Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Up at the Villa

RANDOM HOUSE, 2005

Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity.

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Walter Scott: Waverley - Penguin Classics

PENGUIN BOOKS, 1985

Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands.

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Washington Irving: Sleepy Hollow und andere unheimliche Geschichten

INSEL VERLAG, 2009

Washington Irving ist der »Erfinder« und erster Vertreter der amerikanischen Short story. Vor allem seine unheimlichen Geschichten wie Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow und Rip van Winkle sind bis heute äußerst populär und wurden mehrfach verfilmt.

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Werner Biermann: Sommer 39

ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2009

Es war ein besonders warmer Sommer in jenem Jahr, die Menschen in ganz Europa wollten für eine Weile die Sorgen des Alltags und die Querelen der großen Politik vergessen.

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Wilbur Smith: A Sparrow Falls

PANMACMILLAN, 2009

Sean Courtney, who made and lost ?5 million on the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and fought his way through the bloody battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, now makes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and power in the land.

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Wilbur Smith: Assegai

PANMACMILLAN, 2010

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories.

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Wilbur Smith: The Angels Weep

PAN BOOKS, 2015

The Angels Weep is the third bestselling book in Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne Novels - an epic exploration into the dark past of colonial Africa.

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