The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham

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Three novels (The Moon and Sixpence, The Magician, Liza of Lambeth) and five short stories (The Pool, Rain, Mackintosh, The Fall of Edward Barnard, Red)

This compilation contains three complete novels and five major short stories from the canon of one of thetwentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers.From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago Pago, in Samoa or Malaya or on a Tahitian tropical isle, themen and women in this collection of masterfully crafted tales inhabit exotic, mysterious worldsand at theirown peril invade the dark territory of the human heart.

Somerset Maugham, a noted English novelist, playwright, and author of masterly short stories, spent severalmonths in the Pacific in 1916 and 1917 during an interlude in his service in British intelligence during World WarI. Several of his works have been made into movies and plays, including Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage,Cakes and Ale, Rain, and The Moon and Sixpence.

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W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM (1874-1965) is perhaps the most widely read author since Charles Dickens and the most commercially successful writer of all times. He died in 1965 at the age of ninety-one.