Collected Short Stories Volume 2

Informationen zum Autor William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, 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 a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth , published in 1897, won him over to letters. 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. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. His first play, A Man of Honour , was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey . His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf , subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands , in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His other works include travel books such as On a Chinese Screen , and Don Fernando , essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook . In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965. Klappentext Includes some of Maugham's most famous tales: "Flotsam and Jetsam", "The Man With The Scar" and "The Vessel of Wrath" among others. Zusammenfassung The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; In this second volume of his collected stories, Maugham illustrates his characteristic wry perception of human foibles and his genius for evoking compelling drama from an acute sense of time and place.

Product details

• Authors: W Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham, William Somerset Maugham
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.01.2002
• EAN: 9780099428848
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942884-8
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Paperbacks; Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics; Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Classics; Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics; Maugham Short Stories
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)