Cakes and Ale
Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Authors
ISBN :
Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Authors
ISBN :
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Edward Spencer
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2008-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 142901248X
Edward Spencer's 1913 work is a collection of food essays interspersed with recipes and recollections of memorable meals.
Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 1904
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cosmopolitans" by W. Somerset Maugham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2023-01-01T20:46:22Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
During World War I W. Somerset Maugham, already by then an established playwright and author, was recruited to be a British intelligence agent. These stories reflect his wartime experiences in intelligence gathering. Though fictionalized, they managed to retain enough authentic elements for Winston Churchill to advise Maugham that their publication might be a violation of the Official Secrets Act, resulting in the author burning an additional 14 stories. Set in various locales across the continent, these remaining Ashenden stories are a precursor to the jet-setting spy novels of the 1950s and 1960s. Maugham is known as a master short story writer and these stories are no exception, combining wit and realism to create memorable characters in a unique and highly critical portrait of wartime espionage. Initially released to a mixed reception—with an early review by D. H. Lawrence being especially scathing—Ashenden has since been credited as an inspiration for numerous authors, including John Le Carré, Graham Greene, and Raymond Chandler. The latter in particular was especially impressed, writing in 1950, “There are no other great spy stories—none at all. I have been searching and I know.” This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" by Siegfried Sassoon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Leonard Woolf
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156839457
The author's childhood in Victorian London and his youth at Cambridge, when he met his future wife, Virginia, and others who were to become members of the Bloomsbury Group. "Just what an autobiography should be" (New Yorker). Index; photographs.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101201924
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.