Then and now.

Name: Then and now.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

Novel. Deutscher Titel: Damals und Heute. - (=Penguin Books 2647).

von W. Somerset Maugham Verlag: Harmondsworth: Penguin Books,

Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe - Erschienen 1967. - Taschenbuch. Kartoniert.

215 (9) Seiten. 18 cm. Guter Zustand. *Maugham recreates a time of great excitement and change in Italian society through one of its most famous figures. 'A historical novel and a first-class example of brilliant dialogue-writing. . . It is as exciting as any gangster story of modern politics' SPECTATOR. *'The modern writer who has influenced me most - GEORGE ORWELL. Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers. - W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949). W. Somerset Maugham became a Companion of Honour in 1954. He died in 1965."

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