by W. Somerset Maugham · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140185935
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«Liza of Lambeth» is W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Set in late 19th-century London, it tells the life of Liza, an eighteen-year-old girl who works and lives in poverty in the Lambeth district. Admired on Vere Street, her life changes when she meets Jim Blakeston, a married man, and has a relationship with him that transgresses the strict social norms of the neighbourhood.
The novel was originally published in 1897; this Penguin Classics edition came out in 1992.
For those interested in classics of British literature and the social portrait of Victorian London, as well as for discovering W. Somerset Maugham's first work.
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.
