Collected Short Stories: Volume 4 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:W. Somerset MaughamSeries:Classic, 20th-Century, PenguinAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1993-03-01Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140185928ISBN-10:140185925UPC:9780140185928Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:8.32 x 4.48 x 1.08 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCNBHS20CE
Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
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...
Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140185928ISBN-10:140185925UPC:9780140185928Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:8.32 x 4.48 x 1.08 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCNBHS20CE
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his...
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
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