Short Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Few writers possessed the cool, unsentimental eye for human frailty that W. Somerset Maugham brought to the short story form, and this Folio Society collection stands as a testament to that singular gift. Selected and introduced by Sue Bradbury, the volume gathers some of Maugham's most celebrated tales, transporting readers across continents — from the rain-soaked colonial outposts of the Far East to the drawing rooms of Edwardian England — where ordinary men and women are quietly undone by passion, pride, and self-deception. Maugham's prose is a masterclass in economy and irony; he chronicles the darker currents of human nature with a detached wit that is simultaneously devastating and compassionate. His narrative voice — urbane, worldly, and faintly sardonic — gives each story an almost theatrical tension, a quality brought to vivid life by Christopher Brown's evocative line drawings throughout this edition. This handsome Folio Society volume is not merely a collection of stories — it is an invitation to reckon with a writer whose unflinching clarity about the human condition has never been surpassed.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Hardback
Published: 1989, The Folio Society
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Few writers possessed the cool, unsentimental eye for human frailty that W. Somerset Maugham brought to the short story form, and this Folio Society collection stands as a testament to that singular gift. Selected and introduced by Sue Bradbury, the volume gathers some of Maugham's most celebrated tales, transporting readers across continents — from the rain-soaked colonial outposts of the Far East to the drawing rooms of Edwardian England — where ordinary men and women are quietly undone by passion, pride, and self-deception. Maugham's prose is a masterclass in economy and irony; he chronicles the darker currents of human nature with a detached wit that is simultaneously devastating and compassionate. His narrative voice — urbane, worldly, and faintly sardonic — gives each story an almost theatrical tension, a quality brought to vivid life by Christopher Brown's evocative line drawings throughout this edition. This handsome Folio Society volume is not merely a collection of stories — it is an invitation to reckon with a writer whose unflinching clarity about the human condition has never been surpassed.