Collected Short Stories: Volume 4 - Softcover

William Somerset Maugham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140185925 ISBN 13: 9780140185928

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd., 1992

Synopsis

This final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice. The stories range from "The Lotus Eater" where a man envisions 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.

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About this title

Review:

"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)

From the Publisher:

The final collection of Maugham’s marvellous stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140185925
• ISBN 13: 9780140185928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464