Collected Short Stories Volume 4 - Maugham Short Stories

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Collected Short Stories Volume 4 - Maugham Short Stories

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This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice, the stories range from 'The Lotus Eater' in which a man has a vision of a life of bliss in the Mediterranean, to the astringent tales of 'The Outstation' and 'The Back of Beyond' in Malaya and South East Asia. Largely set in favourite Maugham country, this colourful collection brilliantly evokes the numbered days of the British Empire.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099428862
ISBN10 0099428865
Number Of Pages 576
Item Weight 396 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 198 x 40 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage Publishing
Format paperback
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The short story was Maugham's true métier, and some of the stories he wrote are among the best in the language -- Anthony Burgess
One of my favourite writers -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Author's Bio

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965.

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