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    Collected Short Stories: Volume 4

    Part of Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin

    Author W. Somerset Maugham
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Mar 01, 1993 | 464 Pages | 9780140185928
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    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.

    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.
    W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 4Preface

    The Book-Bag
    French Joe
    German Harry
    The Four Dutchmen
    The Back of Beyond
    P. & O.
    Episode
    The Kite
    A Woman of Fifty
    Mayhew
    The Lotus Eater
    Salvatore
    The Wash-Tub
    A Man With a Conscience
    An Official Position
    Winter Cruise
    Mabel
    Masterson
    Princess September
    A Marriage of Convenience
    Mirage
    The Letter
    The Outstation
    The Portrait of a Gentleman
    Raw Material
    Straight Flush
    The End of the Flight
    A Casual Affair
    Red
    Neil Macadam

    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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    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.

    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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    W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 4Preface

    The Book-Bag
    French Joe
    German Harry
    The Four Dutchmen
    The Back of Beyond
    P. & O.
    Episode
    The Kite
    A Woman of Fifty
    Mayhew
    The Lotus Eater
    Salvatore
    The Wash-Tub
    A Man With a Conscience
    An Official Position
    Winter Cruise
    Mabel
    Masterson
    Princess September
    A Marriage of Convenience
    Mirage
    The Letter
    The Outstation
    The Portrait of a Gentleman
    Raw Material
    Straight Flush
    The End of the Flight
    A Casual Affair
    Red
    Neil Macadam

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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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