Great novels and short stories of Somerset Maugham / W. Somerset Maugham ; introduction by Nick Lyons.

By: Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 [author.]Contributor(s): Lyons, Nick [author of introduction.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: viii, 665 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628737844; 1628737840Subject(s): Short stories
Contents:
Introduction / by Nick Lyons -- Short stories. Mackintosh Rain The pool Red The fall of Edward Barnard -- Novels. The moon and sixpence The magician Liza of Lambeth.
Summary: This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers. From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago Pago, in Samoa or Malaya or on a Tahitian tropical isle, the men and women in this collection of masterfully crafted tales inhabit exotic, mysterious worlds--and at their own peril invade the dark territory of the human heart. Somerset Maugham, a noted English novelist, playwright, and author of masterly short stories, spent several months in the Pacific in 1916 and 1917 during an interlude in his service in British intelligence during World War I. Several of his works have been made into movies and plays, including "Razor's Edge," "Of Human Bondage," "Cakes and Ale," "Rain," and "The Moon and Sixpence."
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"Three novels and five short stories"--Cover.

Introduction / by Nick Lyons -- Short stories. Mackintosh Rain The pool Red The fall of Edward Barnard -- Novels. The moon and sixpence The magician Liza of Lambeth.

This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers. From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago Pago, in Samoa or Malaya or on a Tahitian tropical isle, the men and women in this collection of masterfully crafted tales inhabit exotic, mysterious worlds--and at their own peril invade the dark territory of the human heart. Somerset Maugham, a noted English novelist, playwright, and author of masterly short stories, spent several months in the Pacific in 1916 and 1917 during an interlude in his service in British intelligence during World War I. Several of his works have been made into movies and plays, including "Razor's Edge," "Of Human Bondage," "Cakes and Ale," "Rain," and "The Moon and Sixpence."

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