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The Narrow Corner (Vintage International)

The Narrow Corner (Vintage International) Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Maugham, W Somerset

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"The Narrow Corner" is a classic tale of the sea by one of the 20th-century's finest writers. [Maugham's] prose is so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written that it rivets from first to last.--"Saturday Review of Literature."

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  • Title The Narrow Corner (Vintage International)
  • Author Maugham, W Somerset
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage
  • Date 2009-12-01
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013507859
  • ISBN 9780307473202 / 0307473201
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.54 x 0.69 in (20.27 x 14.07 x 1.75 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Ship captains, Gamblers
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010292946
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the jacket flap

This sea tale par excellence evolved from a passage in "The Moon and Sixpence, written twelve years earlier.

Media reviews

"Maugham is a great artist.... A genius." —Theodore Dreiser "An expert craftsman . . . His style is sharp, quick, subdued, casual." —New York Times "[Maugham] has given infinite pleasure and left us a splendor of writing which will remain for as long as the written English word is permitted to exist." —Daily Telegraph "The modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham"--George Orwell"Maugham remains the consummate craftsman . . . [Hid prose is] so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written that it rivets from first to last." —Saturday Review of Literature   "It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. . . . He was always so entirely there." —Gore Vidal

About the author

W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists, and politicians. He died in 1965.