Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : London, Heinemann
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 1954
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The art of fiction -- Henry Fielding and Tom Jones -- Jane Austen and Pride and prejudice -- Stendhal and Le rouge et le noir -- Balzac and Le Père Goriot -- Charles Dickens and David Copperfield -- Flaubert and Madame Bovary -- Herman Melville and Moby Dick -- Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights -- Dostoevsky and The brothers Karamazov -- Tolstoy and War and peace -- In conclusion.
Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Philadelphia : J. C. Winston Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Authors
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Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Kate Christensen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307455610
National Bestseller and Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Oscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Oscar is survived by his wife, Abigail, their son, Ethan, and his sister, the well-known abstract painter Maxine Feldman. What the obituary does not note, however, is that Oscar is also survived by his longtime mistress, Teddy St. Cloud, and their daughters. As two biographers interview the women in an attempt to set the record straight, the open secret of his affair reaches a boiling point and a devastating skeleton threatens to come to light. From the acclaimed author of The Epicure's Lament, a scintillating novel of secrets, love, and legacy in the New York art world. "Mischievous...funny, astute...As unexpectedly generous as it is entertaining.... Christensen is a witty observer of the art universe." —The New York Times
Author : J. Peder Zane
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0393339866
What if you asked 125 top writers to pick their favorite books? Which titles would come out on top? You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey name the ten books that have meant the most to them, you'll be reminded of books you have always loved and introduced to works awaiting your discovery. The Top Ten includes summaries of 544 books—each of which is considered to be among the ten greatest books ever written by at least one leading writer. In addition to each writer's Top Ten List, the book features Top Ten Lists tabulated from their picks, including: • The Top Ten Books of All Time • The Top Ten Books by Living Writers • The Top Ten Books of the Twentieth Century • The Top Ten Mysteries • The Top Ten Comedies The Top Ten will help readers answer the most pressing question of all: What should I read next?
Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1992-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140185904
The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam," "The Man With the Sca,r" and "The Vessel of Wrath." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307264882
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544133404
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives. "Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses." —New York Times Review of Books
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409076393
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'.
