Then and Now

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First edition. Hardcover black octavo in cloth boards. [8], 278 pages; 21 cm. Very mild rubbing to boards and edges of boards. Else pages clean and binding tight. Very good(+) to near fine. . Hardcover.

Abstract: A novel which finds a parallel to the turmoil of the 20th century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Maugham enters the world of Machiavelli and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers. Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Fiction. Statesmen History. Borgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507 -- Fiction. Italy -- History -- Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527 -- Fiction. English literature.