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W. soMerset MaughaM
1874 – 1965, english
“Maugham has given infinite pleasure and left
us a splendor of writing.” —dirk b o g a r d e
Collected Short Stories
Volume 1
These thirty stories, including the piece
“Rain,” are set in the Pacific Islands,
England, France, and Spain.
448 pp. 978-0-14-018589-8 $17.00
Collected Short Stories
Volume 2
The stories collected here, including
“The Alien Corn,” “Flotsam and Jetsam,”
nd “The Vessel of Wrath,” reconfirm
Maugham’s stature as one of the masters
of the short story.
256 pp. 978-0-14-018590-4 $17.00
Collected Short Stories
Volume 3
Maugham learned his craft from
Maupassant, and these stories, featuring
his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique
and remarkable talent that made him an
unsurpassed storyteller.
256 pp. 978-0-14-018591-1 $16.00
Collected Short Stories
Volume 4
These thirty stories—most set in the
colonies at a time when the Empire was
still assured, in a world in which men
and women were caught between their
own essentially European values and the
richness and ambiguity of their unfamiliar
surroundings—show a master of the genre
at the peak of his power.
464 pp. 978-0-14-018592-8 $17.00
The Magician
Introduction and Notes by Robert Calder
The Magician is one of Somerset
Maugham’s most complex and perceptive
novels, as memorable for its action as for
its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin
de siècle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are
engaged to be married. Everyone approves
and seems to be enjoying themselves—
until the sinister Oliver Haddo appears.
224 pp. 978-0-14-310489-6 $15.00
The Moon and Sixpence
Introduction by Robert Calder
Charles Strickland, a dull bourgeois city
gent, is driven to abandon his home, wife,
and children to devote himself slavishly
to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he
fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell his
works. He drifts to Marseilles and, finally,
to Tahiti, where, even after being blinded
by leprosy, he produces some of his most
passionate and mysterious works of art.
240 pp. 978-0-14-303934-1 $13.00
Mrs Craddock
Introduction and Notes by Robert Calder
In this penetrating study of an unequal
marriage, Maugham explores the nature of
love and happiness and finds that the two
rarely coincide.
304 pp. 978-0-14-310512-1 $15.00
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