Don Fernando W. Somerset Maugham

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Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. This vibrant assessment of a great people at their greatest hour is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong enchantment with the landscape and people of Spain.

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Don Fernando by W. Somerset Maugham

Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and wit on such illustrious figures as Cervantes, Velazquez and the creator of Don Juan. This vibrant assessment of a great people at their greatest hour is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong enchantment with the landscape and people of Spain.

Don Fernando Reviews

"Maugham's best travel book" * Washington Post *
"One of the most under-rated writers of last century" * Glasgow Herald *
"Maugham was one of the great masters of clever narrative and construction" -- Allan Massie
"He was a superb storyteller - one of the very best in our language - who wrote with a wordly, sardonic understanding of the human condition." * Daily Mail *

About W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965

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Sku

CIN0099289407VG

ISBN 13

9780099289401

ISBN 10

0099289407

Title

Don Fernando by W. Somerset Maugham

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2000-07-06

Number of pages

192

Prizes

N/A

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