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.
ISBN: | 9780099288701 |
Publication date: | 2nd November 2000 |
Author: | W Somerset Maugham |
Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 340 pages |
Series: | Vintage Classics |
Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Historical romance Narrative theme: Love and relationships |