W. Somerset Maugham
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This semi-autobiographical novel explores obsession. After failing as an artist in France, sensitive Philip Carey returns to England to go to medical school. It is there that he falls in love with a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
12) Up at the villa
Author
Language
English
Description
In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger. And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered....
15) Secret agent
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. Two British Intelligence Service agents pose as husband and wife in an attempt to eliminate an agent for the Central Powers.