W. Somerset Maugham

Jedes Jahr schließt Miss Reid im Winter ihre Teestube in einem berühmten englischen Erholungsort und geht auf Winterkreuzfahrt. Diesmal reist sie auf der >Friedrich Weber

Ein toter Engländer in einer Kleinstadt in Borneo, hingerafft von Tuberkulose und Opium. Ein goldenes Zigarettenetui. Und ein Packen Briefe, adressiert an eine schöne Frau: die ehrgeizige Lady Kastellan, ein Mittelpunkt der guten Londoner Gesellschaft. Was für Lady Kastellan vielleicht nur >Eine flüchtige Beziehung< war, veränderte das Leben eines Mannes für immer.

This classic novel tells the story of Philip Carey, an orphan with a club foot who is raised by a religious aunt and uncle. Yearning for adventure, Philip eventually leaves home to pursue a career as an artist in Paris. When he returns to London to study medicine, he meets the alluring but unfeeling Mildred, beginning a doomed love affair that will change the course of his life. "Here is a novel of the utmost importance," wrote Theodore Dreiser. "It is a beacon of light by which the wanderer may be guided. . . . One feels as though one were sitting before a splendid Shiraz of priceless texture and intricate weave, admiring, feeling, responding sensually to its colors and tones." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

"There is something bracing about the sincerity of Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well as the cancerous sore beneath." --Leslie A. Marchand, The New York Times Edward Craddock is a thoroughly good man. He may lack his wife Bertha's education, but he is unfailingly good-humored, handsome, placid, and popular. It is hardly surprising that Bertha adores him. But expending all one's passion, all one's spirit, on a man who is so undemonstrative, so unimaginative, can be very trying, as Bertha soon discovers. In this penetrating study of an unequal marriage, W. Somerset Maugham explores the nature of love and happiness and finds that the two rarely coincide. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.