The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Don Fernando (Vintage Classics)

Don Fernando (Vintage Classics)

by W.SomersetMaugham (Author), W. Somerset Maugham (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2000

    $3.55

  • New

    Paperback 2000

    $11.55
Synopsis

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.

$3.55

Save:$6.55 (65%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Jul 2000
ISBN 10: 0099289407
ISBN 13: 9780099289401
Book Overview: Another classic travel book from Maugham; fierce and colourful throughout.

Media 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 *
Author Bio
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