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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.
| ISBN | 0099289601 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780099289609
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 222 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Series title | Vintage classics | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780749324032 | | Publication date | 06 Jul 2000 | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Reissue date | 03 Dec 2009 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Non-book description | B | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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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  Be the first to write a customer review
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