Ashenden
World War, 1914-1918FictionOpen Library Staff PicksWorld War, 1914-1918 in fictionLittérature anglaise
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THE GREATEST SPY IN THE HISTORY OF FICTION! ASHENDEN is one of the two or three greatest spy stories ever written. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, himself a former British Operative, based this novel on his own real life experiences. Here is his daily life — and daily deaths, the dangerous men and subtle women, the mysterious rendezvous, the chance encounters, and the grim reality and glamorous facade of international espionage.
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World War, 1914-1918FictionOpen Library Staff PicksWorld War, 1914-1918 in fictionLittérature anglaiseEnglish fiction
Setting
RUSIARussiaSoviet Union1914
About the author
William Somerset Maugham
25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965
William Somerset Maugham was born at the British Embassy in Paris, France, where his father was an English lawyer handling the legal affairs of the British embassy. His mother died of tuberculosis while he was young, a death which traumatized him for life. Two years later, his father died of cancer, and he was sent to England to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent. His uncle was cold and cruel, and the boarding school he attended, The King's School in Canterbury, was also miserable for him. At sixteen, he refused to continue at The King's School and he was allowed to travel to Germany, where he studied literature, philosophy and German at …
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