Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories VOLUME 3 CONTENTS MISS KING THE HAIRLESS MEXICAN GIULIA LAZZARI THE TRAITOR HIS EXCELLENCY MR HARRINGTON'S WASHING SANATORIUM MISS KING It was not till the beginning of September that Ashenden, a writer by profession, who had been abroad at the outbreak of the war, managed to get back to England. Somerset Maugham was one of the greatest English writers of short stories ever. As this set contains all of his stories, the reader will find many treasures( and some not so good). However, the very good to some of the best stories ever, far out number the turkeys. If you like to read, you will love this book.

Book Details Title: The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Vol. I Author: (6 of 17 for author by title) → ← Published: 1951 Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd Tags:,, Description: This is the first of three volumes of my collected short stories. In my early youth I wrote a number, but they are so immature that I have preferred not to reprint them. A few are in a book that has long remained out of print, a few others are scattered in various magazines. They are best forgotten.

The first of the stories in this collection, Rain, was written in 1920 in Hong Kong, but I had hit upon the idea for it during a journey I took in the South Seas during the winter of 1916. The last of my stories was written in New York in 1945 from a brief note that I found by chance among my papers and which I made as far back as 1901. I do not expect ever to write another. —From the Preface [Suggest a different description.]. Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, a semiautobiographical novel that deals with the life of the main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned, and brought up by his pious uncle. Philip's clubfoot causes him endless self-consciousness and embarrassment, echoing Maugham's struggles with his stutter and, as his biographer Ted Morgan notes, his homosexuality.

Two of his later novels were based on historical people: The Moon and Sixpence is about the life of Paul Gauguin; and Cakes and Ale contains what were taken as thinly veiled and unflattering characterizations of the authors Thomas Hardy (who had died two years previously) and Hugh Walpole. Maugham himself denied any intention of doing this in a long letter to Walpole: 'I certainly never intended Alroy Kear to be a portrait of you. He is made up of a dozen people and the greater part of him is myself'—yet in an introduction written for the 1950 Modern Library edition of the work, he plainly states that Walpole was the inspiration for Kear (while denying that Thomas Hardy was the inspiration for the novelist Driffield). Maugham's last major novel, The Razor's Edge (1944), was a departure for him in many ways. While much of the novel takes place in Europe, its main characters are American, not British. Contoh cv yang menarik doctor.

The protagonist is a disillusioned veteran of the First World War who abandons his wealthy friends and lifestyle, traveling to India seeking enlightenment. Koperasi simpan pinjam adalah. The story's themes of Eastern mysticism and war-weariness struck a chord with readers during the Second World War. It was adapted into a major motion picture released in 1946, then again in 1984 starring Bill Murray. Among his short stories, some of the most memorable are those dealing with the lives of Western, mostly British, colonists in the Far East. They typically express the emotional toll the colonists bear by their isolation.