- Fiction, Magicians, Magic, English Authors
Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century masterSet in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley.
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- Author
- William Somerset Maugham
- First published
- 1908
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- IndyPublish, Blackstone Audiobooks, Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH
- Editions
- 313
- Language
- Chinese, English, German, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9798740297385
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“ARTHUR BURDON and Dr Porhoet walked in silence.”
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 Heid
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