Liza of Lambeth

SOMERSET MAUGHAM

PENGUIN BOOKS

Published by the Penguin Group

First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd 1897

CONTENTS

[Chapter 1 ]
[Chapter 2 ]
[Chapter 3 ]
[Chapter 4 ]
[Chapter 5 ]
[Chapter 6 ]
[Chapter 7 ]
[Chapter 8 ]
[Chapter 9 ]
[Chapter 10 ]
[Chapter 11]
[Chapter 12]

1

It was the first Saturday afternoon in August; it had been broiling hot all day, with a cloudless sky, and the sun had been beating down on the houses, so that the top rooms were like ovens; but now with the approach of evening it was cooler, and everyone in Vere Street was out of doors.