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Sərlövhə |
Collected short
stories |
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Müəllif |
William Somerset
Maugham |
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Nəşriyyat |
Penguin Classics |
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Nəşr yeri |
London |
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Nəşr ili |
1993 |
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Səhifə |
272 p. |
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Annotasiya |
Who better
qualified to
chronicle the
experiences of
an author-agent
during the First
World War than
Somerset
Maugham, himself
a writer turned
spy?
His alter-ego is
Ashenden, a calm
observer with a
cool head. From
his almost
casual
recruitment into
Intelligence at
the beginning of
hostilities we
follow his
progress through
a series of
incidents. There
is the fiasco of
the Hairless
Mexican, a
ladies' man and
thoroughly inept
assassin. And
the pathetic
tale of Mr
Harrington, the
touching and
ridiculous
American,
clumsily feeling
his way through
the turmoil of
the Russian
Revolution. Most
dreadful of all
is the bleak
story of the
Traitor, whose
fate reveals the
real horror of
the agent's
profession |
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