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W. Somerset Maugham
British writer born in Paris, left medicine after the success of his first novel. Considered one of the most read narrators of the 20th century, he reached the top with Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), and The Razor's Edge (1944). He was also a successful playwright and master of the story, with espionage stories based on his own experience as an agent of MI6.
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The day his older and wealthy friend asks him to marry, Mary Leonard hesitates and decides to postpone his answer for a few days. But that same afternoon, by driving alone through the hills that dominate Florence, Mary offers to take in her car a handsome stranger. And suddenly, his life is completely and irrevocably altered.
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