Libros de W. Somerset Maugham (2 libros)

El misterio de la villa (Publicado originalmente en castellano con el titulo En una villa florentina) narra con rara profundidad psicologica la peripecia de una aristocratica joven ingles que, a consecuencia de sus actos caprichosos, se vera envuelta en una intriga que cambiara su destino para siempre, mostrandole las sordidas verdades de la vida y, aun mas dificil, de ella misma. Ambientada en una Florencia de sugerentes claroscuros, esta magnifica narracion ha sido adaptada recientemente el cine en una pelicula protagonizada por Kristin Scott Thomas y Sean Penn.

The six stories that make up this book are all set in the islands of the South Pacific. Whether it be on the islands of Samoa, in Tahiti, or in Honolulu, all of these stories feature the development of tensions between the worldview and the lifestyle of the natives and those of the white men, representing an even more essential confrontation: the one between East and West. Maugham masterfully narrates political stories, stories of frustraded economic ambition, of incomplete or unrequited love, all of which share his talent for exposing the most elemental human passions, those which lead men...