Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
by W. Somerset Maugham 
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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 show more brilliantly evokes the numbered days of the British Empire. show lessTags
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Terrific. Spellbinding. Atmospheric. A grand tour-de-force of oriental colonial literature! Highly Recommended
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Writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874. He attended St. Thomas's Medical School in London. A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were show more also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
- Alternate titles
- The Complete Short Stories, Vol. 4
- Original publication date
- 1963
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