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    Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

    Part of Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin

    Author W. Somerset Maugham
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    $20.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Sep 01, 1992 | 448 Pages | 9780140185898
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    These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the Turtle," and "Before the Party."

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    Collected Short Stories Volume 1Preface

    Rain
    The Fall of Edward Barnard
    Honolulu
    The Luncheon
    The Ant and the Grasshopper
    Home
    The Pool
    Mackintosh
    Appearance and Reality
    The Three Fat Women of Antibes
    The Facts of Life
    Gigolo and Gigolette
    The Happy Couple
    The Voice of the Turtle
    The Lion's Skin
    The Unconquered
    The Escape
    The Judgement Seat
    Mr. Know-All
    The Happy Man
    The Romantic Young Lady
    The Point of Honour
    The Poet
    The Mother
    A Man from Glasgow
    Before the Party
    Louise
    The Promise
    A String of Beads
    The Yellow Streak

    W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists, and politicians. He died in 1965. View titles by W. Somerset Maugham

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    These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the Turtle," and "Before the Party."

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    Collected Short Stories Volume 1Preface

    Rain
    The Fall of Edward Barnard
    Honolulu
    The Luncheon
    The Ant and the Grasshopper
    Home
    The Pool
    Mackintosh
    Appearance and Reality
    The Three Fat Women of Antibes
    The Facts of Life
    Gigolo and Gigolette
    The Happy Couple
    The Voice of the Turtle
    The Lion's Skin
    The Unconquered
    The Escape
    The Judgement Seat
    Mr. Know-All
    The Happy Man
    The Romantic Young Lady
    The Point of Honour
    The Poet
    The Mother
    A Man from Glasgow
    Before the Party
    Louise
    The Promise
    A String of Beads
    The Yellow Streak

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    W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists, and politicians. He died in 1965. View titles by W. Somerset Maugham

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