W. Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest short story writers in English literature. His complex characters and fascinating themes haunt people long after they are finished with reading his works.
Maugham's stories mostly deal with lives of Western, mostly British, colonists in the Pacific Islands and Asia. They typically express the emotional toll the colonists bear by their isolation. Rain and Outstation are considered especially notable.
This edition includes:
The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian
A Bad Example
De Amicitia
Faith
The Choice of Amyntas
Daisy
The Pacific
Mackintosh
The Fall of Edward Barnard
Red
The Pool
Honolulu
Rain
Envoi
Before the Party
P. & O.
The Outstation
The Force of Circumstance
The Yellow Streak
The Letter
A Marriage of Convenience
The Happy Couple
The Mother
Red
The Taipan
Jane
Mayhew
German Harry
In a Strange Land
The Luncheon
The Round Dozen
The Happy Man
Mr Know-All
The Ant and the Grasshopper
The End of the Flight
The Consul
The Creative Impulse
