Somerset maugham s real life experience working for the secret service in wwi, this is a collection of linked stories about his fictional alter ego ashenden. Ashenden is one of the two or three greatest spy stories ever written. When war broke out in 1914, somerset maugham was dispatched by the british secret service to switzerland under the guise. Or the british agent is a 1927 collection of loosely linked stories by w. Somerset maugham, 9780099289708, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Somerset maugham 18741965 wrote over 100 short stories in a long, multifaceted, successful and controversial career. Buy ashenden, or, the british agent new ed by william somerset maugham. Ashenden was written by somerset maugham and published in 1928.
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World war, 19141918, open library staff picks, fiction. Ashenden aka somerville is no action hero, his world is occasionally threatening but mostly dull, the stories are brief, tantalisingly incomplete and extremely light on plot. Or the british agent is a 1928 collection of loosely linked stories by w. Somerset maugham 18471965 rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to.
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