Collected Short Stories: Volume 3
This third volume of Maugham’s stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham’s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he...
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This third volume of Maugham’s stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham’s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140185911 (0140185917)
Publish date: June 1st 1993
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 253
Edition language: English
Series: Collected Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (#1)
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