Description
| Product ID: | 9780099288701 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Merry Go Round |
| Authors: | Author: W. Somerset Maugham |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley''s eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a woman''s adulterous passion for a young rascal, and finally, an honourable man''s decision to take virtue to extremes. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2000-11-02 |
