Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel,whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions,and Elliot Templeton,her uncle,a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels,this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story,to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099284864Number of pages: 352Weight: 245 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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One of my favourite writersA formidable talent,a formidable sum of talents...precision,tact,irony and total absence of pomposity
W. Somerset Maugham
British playwright,novelist and short story writer,who was reputedly the best paid English writer of the 1930s...
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