Ashenden

By W. Somerset Maugham

Book Overview

Ashenden: The British Agent is founded on Maugham's experiences in the English Intelligence Department during World War I, but rearranged for the purposes of fiction. This fascinating book contains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099289709
• ISBN13: 9780099289708
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.9" x 5.1"

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Book Overview is Incorrect

The book overview for this book is a misplaced description of another book. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ashenden: Or the British Agent is a 1927 collection of loosely linked stories by W. Somerset Maugham. It is partly based on the author's experience as a member of British Intelligence in Europe during the First World War.

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