《Collected Short Stories》是1993年Penguin Classics出版的書籍，作者是W. Somerset Maugham。
基本介紹
- 書名：Collected Short Stories
- 作者：W. Somerset Maugham
- 出版社：Penguin Classics
- 出版時間：1993年6月1日
- 頁數：256 頁
- ISBN：9780140185911
內容簡介
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to 'R', Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister 'hairless Mexican'.
