Collected Short Stories Volume 3

Autor: Maugham, W Somerset

Editorial: Vintage

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780099428855

Reseña:  The third volume of Somerset Maughams Collected Short Stories introduced by the author contains the celebrated series about Ashenden a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maughams own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to R Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor the passionate Guilia Lazzari and the sinister hairless Mexican.