Far Eastern Tales - Softcover

Maugham, W. Somerset.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749316020 ISBN 13: 9780749316020

Publisher: Mandarin, 1993

Synopsis

Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaysia, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best – sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human judge of character and soul. The stories included on this recording are Footprints in the Jungle; Mabel; P & O; The Door of Opportunity; The Buried Talent; Before the Party; Mr. Know-all; Neil MacAdam; The End of the Flight; and The Force of Circumstance.

About this title

Review:

"If all else perish, there will remain a storyteller's world...that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of verandah and prahu which we enter as well as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, and with a happy and eternal homecoming" (The Times)

"Maugham teases out buried secrets as mesmerising as the heat and as menacing as the surrounding jungle" (Observer)

"Ideally you should listen to these stories lying in a long cane chair on the veranda of a dark bungalow sipping a gin and bitters - not that Maugham's writing needs any further atmospheric embellishment. Like Kipling and Conrad, Maugham transports us to a long-since-vanished and distinctly non-PC world of hard-drinking colonial planters and traders and their frosty memsahibs" (Guardian)

Book Description:

Mesmerising short stories by a 20th century master.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mandarin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0749316020
• ISBN 13: 9780749316020
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 277