Ashenden (Tie-In Edition)

by W. Somerset Maugham

Book Overview

A thief, languishing in prison for stealing moments, escapes and becomes a chronometric fugitive. Women wait in a long, endless line, night and day, without knowing what is at the beginning of the line. An otherworldly marble called the Ustek Cloudy passes through the hands of Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Earhart, and D. B. Cooper just before they each disappear off the face of the earth. Whether they are called fantasy, magical realism, science fiction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140174311
• ISBN13: 9780140174311
• Release Date: April 1976
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A literary James Bond.

An amazing fictional account of Maugham's real life adventures as a spy for Great Britain during WW I. Written in Maughm's usual concise and elogant prose, these stories make the reader root for Ashenden who is nothing short of a literary James Bond. This account, written as a collection of short independent stories, shows that, when in the hands of an author with a command of the English language, suspense and intrigue can be create in a book in other ways besides stringing together one action scene after another. Simply Maugham at his best