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Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a woman's adulterous passion for a young rascal, and finally, an honourable man's decision to take virtue to extremes.
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"Maugham was one of the great masters of clever narrative and construction" (Allan Massie Sunday Herald)
"A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents" (Spectator)
"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. . . . He was always so entirely there" (Gore Vidal)
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"A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents" (Spectator)
"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. . . . He was always so entirely there" (Gore Vidal)
A trio of stories narrated by one of Maugham's most endearing characters, Miss Ley
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0140185968
- ISBN 13 9780140185966
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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