Liza of Lambeth: A Tale of London - Softcover

Maugham, W. Somerset

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557426791 ISBN 13: 9781557426796

Publisher: World Library Classics, 2010

Synopsis

Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street (obviously fictional) off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth. It gives the reader an interesting insight into the everyday lives of working class Londoners at the turn of the century.

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Maugham's first published novel - a vividly realistic portrayal of slum life. Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she has found an adoring if conventional beau in Tom. When she meets Jim Blakeston, a married man new to the area, she is immediately magnetized by his attentions. But the streets are wise to their illicit, passionate affair and before long the secret is out.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Library Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1557426791
• ISBN 13: 9781557426796
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 94