Collected Short Stories, Vol. 2

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Author: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN-10: 0140185909

ISBN-13: 9780140185904

Category: English, Irish, Scottish Fiction & Literature Classics

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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 2 Preface\ The Vessel of Wrath The Force of Circumstance Flotsam and Jetsam The Alien Corn The Creative Impulse Virtue The Man with the Scar The Closed Shop The Bum The Dream The Treasure The Colonel's Lady Lord Mountdrago The Social Sense The Verger In a Strange Land The Taipan The Counsel A Friend in Need The Round Dozen The Human Element Jane Footprints in the Jungle The Door of Opportunity

\ 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\ \