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Ashenden or the british agent is a 1927 collection of loosely linked stories by w somerset maugham it is partly based on the authors experience as a member of british intelligence in europe during the first world war. Somerset maughams ashenden harkens back to a classical era when espionage writing was literature not a first treatment of a movie screenplay its less about action than character and maugham is astute in letting the characters in these linked short stories bare their souls most of them in a way that shows they cannot be trusted. Somerset maughams ashenden harkens back to a classical era when espionage writing was literature not a first treatment of a movie screenplay its less about action than character and maugham is astute in letting the characters in these linked short stories bare their souls most of them in a way that shows they cannot be trusted. Somerset maughams ashenden or the british agent 1927 is the first spy novel written by someone who actually worked for an intelligence agency