Best Short Stories

Informationen zum Autor William Somerset Maugham was born at the British Embassy in Paris in 1874 into a family of lawyers. Orphaned at ten and exiled to an indifferent uncle and hated boarding school in Kent! he escaped briefly to Heidelberg university where he discovered literature! love and his urge to write! he qualified as a doctor in London! exploiting his medical experiences not to practice but to pen a sensational novel! Liza of Lambeth! that launched his career. There followed a long and extraordinary life in which Maugham produced many hit plays and bestselling novels! took lovers of both sexes! spied in two world wars for Britain! travelled the world and became enormously rich. Along the way! based entirely on his own acquaintances and adventures! he compiled the greatest collection of short stories ever written. He lived his last 40 years in an extravagant art-filled villa in the Riviera and died in 1965! aged 91. Klappentext A complete and unabridged cloth bound edition! with gilt edge pages and ribbon marker Zusammenfassung Somerset Maugham is one of the world's great story tellers. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous characters. You feel as if you are curled up listening to the delicious! risqué! tales of an old! dear and rather wicked friend. You are transported to the very place! the villa! the street! the bar! the smells and tastes are almost tangible. The ten stories in this collection are 'The Letter'! 'The Verger'! 'The Vessel of Wrath'! 'The Book-Bag'! 'The Facts of Life'! 'Lord Mountdrago'! 'The Colonel's Lady'! 'The Treasure'! 'Rain' and 'P&O'. With an Afterword by Ned Halley.

Product details

• Authors: W Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham, W.Somerset Maugham, William Somerset Maugham, W Somerset Maugham
• Assisted by: Ne Halley (Editor), Ned Halley (Introduction)
• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9781907360343
• ISBN: 978-1-907360-34-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 101 mm x 157 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999