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Painted Veil
But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic …
Collected Short Stories Volume 4
This final, classic collection of stories reveals Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Included are: "The Lotus Eater", …
Far Eastern Tales
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 …
Summing Up
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression …
Narrow Corner
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven …
Collected Short Stories Volume 2
The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in …
Collected Short Stories Volume 3
The third in a series of four volumes of short stories, containing the celebrated "Ashenden" series based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in …
Collected Short Stories Volume 1
It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic …
Gentleman in the Parlour
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his …
Landed Gentry
This Book "Landed Gentry: A Comedy in Four Acts" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its …