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Founded on maughams own experiences in the british secret service during world war. When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of revolutionary russia and as one man s story of struggle, and tragedy set against the background of great events. The stories collected in ashenden are rooted in maughams own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and. Comparing selected aspects of somerset maughams ashenden. Somerset maugham on free shipping on qualifying offers.
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