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May 26, 2010 · They are delightful short stories, many of which are expert portraits of Maugham's fascinating characters. Some of the stories, such as "Mr. Know-All," "The Verger" and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" were later rendered into films.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. [1]
Jan 1, 1976 · Maugham was a celebrated short story writer, though arguably more famous for his novels; this is a collection of sixty-five of his stories, from early in his career to near the end of his life, incorporating those from his time in the far east, as well as several of the Ashenden episodes.
THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, VOL. I Preface. This is the first volume of my collected short stories. In my early youth I wrote a number, but they are so immature that I have preferred not to reprint them. A few are in a book that has long remained out of print, a few others are scattered in various magazines.
It is a collection of short sketches about Europeans living in China during Maugham's 1920 trip into China's interior. It includes officials, failed businessmen, and displaced seamen and adventurers. But mostly it describes missionaries adrift and isolated in a culture where their futures seem consigned to obscurity and personal failure of one ...
THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, VOL. III Preface. In this final volume I have placed the rest of my stories the scene of which is set in Malaya. They were written long before the Second World War and I should tell the reader that the sort of life with which they deal no longer exists.
THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, VOL. II Preface. In this, the second volume of my collected stories, I have made a somewhat different arrangement from that which I have made in the other two. In those I put the stories I wrote in which the scene was laid in Malaya.
