The Greatest Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham

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