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In this edition of his collected shorter fiction we can see why Somerset Maugham, celebrated as the author of Cakes and Ale and Of Human Bondage, is also regarded as a master of the short story. Open this substantial volume at any page and you will find evidence of his extraordinary art. Without narrative tricks and in a plain prose style, Maugham introduces us to the enormous range of characters and experiences he encountered in an unusually long life and recorded with the cool accuracy of a good doctor diagnosing disease. There are many famous stories here; some of them made into films such as The Force of Circumstance, Rain, P & O and The Colonel's Lady; others, less famous, charting mundane but mysterious events in all four quarters of the world.
| ISBN | 185715276X | | Pages | 848 | | ISBN13 | 9781857152760
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 908 | | Publisher | Everyman | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Everyman's Library | | Series title | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 209 | | Publication date | 05 Aug 2004 | | Width (mm) | 136 | | Writer of introduction | Nicholas Shakespeare | | Spine width (mm) | 46 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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