More Far Eastern Tales
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
£10.99
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A collection of powerful short stories from a master of the form, W Somerset Maugham
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.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.
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 *
ISBN: 9780099289609
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 223g
320 pages