Descrizione

First Edition, second issue published only days after the first. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth gilt lettered within ornately decorated gilt designs on both the upper cover and spine. 269 pp. A fine copy, the black cloth is rich with no fading whatsoever, the gilt vivid and bright, the text clean and spotless, the binding firm and strong.

Edizione: one of w. somerset maugham's most unusual and engaging books, a fascinating departure from the novels and short stories for which he is best remembered. don fernando is a brilliant and deeply personal celebration of spain's golden age. drawing upon his lifelong fascination with the country, maugham explores its great literary figures, artists, mystics, and cultural traditions, from cervantes and lope de vega to el greco and st. teresa. part travel memoir, part literary criticism, and part cultural history, the book displays maugham's extraordinary gifts as an observer and author.