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Maugham: Collected Short Stories

Maugham: Collected Short Stories

Volume 4

W. Somerset Maugham - Author

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ISBN 9780140185928 | 464 pages | 01 Mar 1993 | Penguin Classics | 5.11 x 7.71in | 18 - AND UP
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These thirty stories--most set in the colonies at a time when the Empire was still assured, in a world in which men and women were caught between their own essentially European values and the richness and ambiguity of their unfamiliar surroundings--show a master of the genre at the peak of his power.
W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 4 Preface

The Book-Bag
French Joe
German Harry
The Four Dutchmen
The Back of Beyond
P. & O.
Episode
The Kite
A Woman of Fifty
Mayhew
The Lotus Eater
Salvatore
The Wash-Tub
A Man With a Conscience
An Official Position
Winter Cruise
Mabel
Masterson
Princess September
A Marriage of Convenience
Mirage
The Letter
The Outstation
The Portrait of a Gentleman
Raw Material
Straight Flush
The End of the Flight
A Casual Affair
Red
Neil Macadam

‘If all else perish, there will remain a story-teller’s world from Singapore to the Marquesas that is exclusively and for ever Maugham, a world of verandah and prahu which we enter, as we do that of Conan Doyle’s Baker Street, with a sense of happy and eternal homecoming’ Cyril Connolly in the Sunday Times