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Ashenden / W. Somerset Maughan.

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Record Number 786889
ISBN 9780099289708 (paperback)
Author Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 author.
Title Ashenden / W. Somerset Maughan.
Publisher/Date London : Vintage Books, 2000.
Pagination etc. x, 325 pages ; 20 cm
Contents note First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann in 1928.
Summary Note A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in ASHENDEN are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as absurdity.
Subject Spy stories, English
Classical fiction.
Shelf Location F MAUG
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