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More Far Eastern Tales

More Far Eastern Tales

by WilliamSomersetMaugham (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $13.80

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    Paperback 1998

    $6.03
Synopsis

From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies and stands as a superbly entertaining and compelling testament to Maugham's skill and power as a short story writer.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 06 Jul 2000
ISBN 10: 0099289601
ISBN 13: 9780099289609
Book Overview: A collection of powerful short stories from a master of the form, W Somerset Maugham

Media Reviews
Maugham teases out buried secrets as mesmerising as the heat and as menacing as the surrounding jungle * Observer *
If 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 Times *
Ideally you should listen to these stories lying in a long cane chair on the veranda of a dark bungalow sipping a gin and bitters - not that Maugham's writing needs any further atmospheric embellishment * Guardian *
Author Bio
William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965