This elegant edition of W. Somerset Maugham's Best Short Stories features an afterword by writer and journalist Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library. The Favorite Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (1937) Creatures of Circumstances (1947) The Maugham Reader (1950) The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (1951) The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham. The World Over (1952) Mr. Maugham Himself (1954) Seventeen Lost Stories (1969) Collected Short Stories (1963–1978).

Alternative Title: William Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham, in full William Somerset Maugham, (born Jan. 25, 1874,, France—died Dec. 16, 1965, Nice), English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work is characterized by a clear unadorned style, settings, and a shrewd understanding of.

Maugham was orphaned at the age of 10; he was brought up by an uncle and educated at King’s School, Canterbury. After a year at, he entered St. Thomas’ medical school, London, and qualified as a doctor in 1897. He drew upon his experiences as an obstetrician in his first, Liza of Lambeth (1897), and its success, though small, encouraged him to abandon medicine. He traveled in Spain and Italy and in 1908 achieved a theatrical triumph—four plays running in London at once—that brought him financial security. During he worked as a secret agent.

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After the war he resumed his interrupted travels and, in 1928, bought a villa on Cape Ferrat in the south of, which became his permanent home. His reputation as a novelist rests primarily on four books: (1915), a semi-autobiographical account of a young medical student’s painful progress toward maturity; (1919), an account of an unconventional artist, suggested by the life of Paul Gauguin; (1930), the story of a famous novelist, which is thought to contain of and Hugh Walpole; and (1944), the story of a young American war veteran’s quest for a satisfying way of life. Maugham’s plays, mainly Edwardian social comedies, soon became dated, but his short stories have increased in popularity. Many portray the conflict of Europeans in alien surroundings that provoke strong emotions, and Maugham’s skill in handling plot, in the manner of, is distinguished by economy and suspense. In The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer’s Notebook (1949) Maugham explains his philosophy of life as a resigned atheism and a certain about the extent of man’s innate goodness and intelligence; it is this that gives his work its astringent.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM (1874–1965) was one of the most prolific, versatile, and popular writers of the twentieth century. During a career that lasted sixty-five years, he published twenty novels, twenty-six plays, seven books of essays, three travel books, and more than 110 short stories, as well as commentaries, memoirs, and periodical contributions. 1 While critical opinion has long been mixed, 2 reviews and analyses of Maugham’s work include thousands of articles and many book-length studies. 3 Continued interest in Maugham is evident from the publication of several biographies, 4 memoirs, 5 bibliographies, 6 and even encyclopedias. 7 It is also reflected in the acquisition by several prominent university libraries of rare collections of Maugham’s writings and material related to his life and work.

8 Maugham’s short stories are a major component of his legacy of fiction. Spartacus blood and sand online. Such stories were among his earliest writings and led in 1899 to his first published collection, Orientations. 9 After 1920, each of Maugham’s short stories typically was published in a British or American periodical as well as in a book-length collection.