1.031.459

kiadvánnyal nyújtjuk Magyarország legnagyobb antikvár könyv-kínálatát

A kosaram
0
MÉG
5000 Ft
a(z) 5000Ft-os
szállítási
értékhatárig

The Moon and Sixpence

Az ördög sarkantyúja

Szerző

Kiadó: Penguin Books
Kiadás helye: Harmondsworth
Kiadás éve:
Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 216 oldal
Sorozatcím: Penguin Book
Kötetszám: 468
Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 18 cm x 11 cm
ISBN:
Értesítőt kérek a kiadóról
Értesítőt kérek a sorozatról

A beállítást mentettük,
naponta értesítjük a beérkező friss
kiadványokról
A beállítást mentettük,
naponta értesítjük a beérkező friss
kiadványokról

Előszó

PENGUIN BOOKS 468 THE MOON AND SIXPENCE William Somerset Maugham was bora in 1874 and lived in Paris imtil he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He... Tovább

Előszó

PENGUIN BOOKS 468 THE MOON AND SIXPENCE William Somerset Maugham was bora in 1874 and lived in Paris imtil he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St Thomas's Hospitál with a view to practice in medicine but the suecess of his íirst növel, Liza of Lambeth (1897) won him over to letters. Something of his hospitál experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Humán 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 Bemard 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, since when he has published more than ten collections. Somerset Maugham's generál 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). In 1954 Mr Maugham became a Companion of Honour, Until his death in 1966 he lived on the Riviéra* Vissza

Fülszöveg

¦¦Mi For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A. THE MOON AND SIXPENCE, published in 1919, confirmed Maugham's reputation as a novelist and is probably his bestknown book. In the single-minded character of Charles Strickland, the London stockbroker who suddenly abandons family and career to become .a painter, he drew a harsh but credible likeness of the mentality of genius. The story, suggested by the life of Paul Gauguin, is mainly set in Paris, but the closing chapters describe the artist's primitive life in Tahiti and his iingering death from leprosy. We are left with the disturbing impression of a man possessed by demonic forces. The portrait drawing by Graham Sutherland is reproduced by permission of H. P. Juda

W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham műveinek az Antikvarium.hu-n kapható vagy előjegyezhető listáját itt tekintheti meg: W. Somerset Maugham könyvek, művek
Megvásárolható példányok

Nincs megvásárolható példány
A könyv összes megrendelhető példánya elfogyott. Ha kívánja, előjegyezheti a könyvet, és amint a könyv egy újabb példánya elérhető lesz, értesítjük.

Előjegyzem
konyv