Maugham: Collected Short Stories : Volume 1 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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Book Description
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.
About the Author
W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He began to study medicine in London but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897) won him over to letters. Of Human Bondage (1915) and The Moon and Sixpence (1919) established his reputation as a novelist. His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. He died in 1965.
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