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Then and Now
  
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Then and Now (Paperback)

by W. Somerset Maugham (Author)
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Three months in the career of the crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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“As exciting as any gangster story of modern politics.” –Spectator

“The modern writer who has influenced me the most.” – George Orwell --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Historical novel that works, Dec 12 2003
By david mills (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Then and Now (Hardcover)
This historical novel seems a digression from Maugham's normal run of work. As such, it effectively recreates a trip taken my Niccolo Machievelli, representing his native city of Florence, and a young aide, to negotiate with Cesare Borgia. Machievelli and Borgia's characers are realistically portrayed, along with the constant intrigue, deception and treachery as practiced among the powerful, and others, in the Italy of the city states. A sub-plot involving Machievelli's hoped-for seduction of his host's attractive young wife is also believable: he sees the affair as an extension of politics, and the reader is given a view of the views suffered by women of that bygone era. In sum, this book is definitely readable, and recommendable.
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