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    Collected Short Stories: Volume 2

    Part of Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin

    Author W. Somerset Maugham
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    $21.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    5.11"W x 7.67"H x 0.99"D   | 12 oz | 36 per carton
    On sale Apr 15, 1992 | 432 Pages | 9780140185904
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    The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam," "The Man With the Sca,r" and "The Vessel of Wrath."

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists, and politicians. He died in 1965. View titles by W. Somerset Maugham
    Collected Short Stories Volume 2Preface

    The Vessel of Wrath
    The Force of Circumstance
    Flotsam and Jetsam
    The Alien Corn
    The Creative Impulse
    Virtue
    The Man with the Scar
    The Closed Shop
    The Bum
    The Dream
    The Treasure
    The Colonel's Lady
    Lord Mountdrago
    The Social Sense
    The Verger
    In a Strange Land
    The Taipan
    The Counsel
    A Friend in Need
    The Round Dozen
    The Human Element
    Jane
    Footprints in the Jungle
    The Door of Opportunity

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    The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam," "The Man With the Sca,r" and "The Vessel of Wrath."

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London, where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists, and politicians. He died in 1965. View titles by W. Somerset Maugham

    Table of Contents

    Collected Short Stories Volume 2Preface

    The Vessel of Wrath
    The Force of Circumstance
    Flotsam and Jetsam
    The Alien Corn
    The Creative Impulse
    Virtue
    The Man with the Scar
    The Closed Shop
    The Bum
    The Dream
    The Treasure
    The Colonel's Lady
    Lord Mountdrago
    The Social Sense
    The Verger
    In a Strange Land
    The Taipan
    The Counsel
    A Friend in Need
    The Round Dozen
    The Human Element
    Jane
    Footprints in the Jungle
    The Door of Opportunity

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