Collected Short Stories, Vol. 1
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Twenty-four stories set in and around Malaya, America and England. Includes "The Vessel of the Wrath."Cyril ConnollyIf 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 Sunday Times
Collected Short Stories Volume 1 Preface\ 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
\ Anthony BurgessHis achievement was large...the short story was Maugham's true metier, and some of the stories he wrote are among the best in the language. -- The Listener\ \ \ \ \ Cyril ConnollyIf 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 Sunday Times\ \
