W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories: Volume 3
Автор:W. Somerset Maugham Год: 1995 Издание: Страниц: 264 ISBN: 9780140185911 This third volume of Maugham's stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality.
