Liza of Lambeth (The collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham) (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

by W Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham’s first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it.

• ISBN10: 0140185933
• ISBN13: 9780140185935
• Publish Date: 1 September 1992 (first published 12 May 1978)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 30 January 2010
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 128
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780140185935

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Dislike: printed Cockney slang, too-neat-and-tidy convenient death. This is Maugham’s first, though. First! He was twenty-three. What was I doing at 23?

You could say, this is the novel he wrote before he started flipping novels on their head.