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The Narrow Corner
W. Somerset Maugham
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Paperback. On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancee, the cool and beautiful Louise. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 168.
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Kanda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Kanda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099286882
SKU
V9780099286882
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About W. Somerset Maugham
William 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 spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human ... Read more
Reviews for The Narrow Corner
Maugham had a narrow but profound gift for domesticating the strange and making the exotic appear reassuringly familiar
Nicholas Shakespeare
Daily Telegraph
The fictional summa of everything Maugham had seen and learned about the East
Washington Post
The modern writer who has influenced me the most
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Nicholas Shakespeare
Daily Telegraph
The fictional summa of everything Maugham had seen and learned about the East
Washington Post
The modern writer who has influenced me the most
George Orwell He puts most 21st-century novelists to ... Read more