Collected Short Stories: 2
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few writers of the twentieth century possessed W. Somerset Maugham's razor-sharp gift for capturing the full spectrum of human nature within the compressed confines of a short story. Collected Short Stories: Volume 2 gathers a rich selection of his finest shorter works, transporting readers from the rain-soaked verandas of the South Pacific to the drawing rooms of colonial Malaya, chronicling the lives of planters, missionaries, expatriates, and wanderers caught in moments of moral crisis, quiet desperation, and startling revelation. Maugham's prose is a masterclass in economy and irony — deceptively simple on the surface, yet charged beneath with acute psychological insight and an unflinching eye for human weakness and resilience. His narrative voice, cool and dispassionate yet deeply humane, holds a mirror up to the contradictions of empire, marriage, ambition, and desire. A titan of British letters whose work bridges the Victorian tradition and the modernist moment, Maugham remains as compulsively readable today as when these tales first appeared — and the next story in this collection may well be the one that stays with you longest.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers of the twentieth century possessed W. Somerset Maugham's razor-sharp gift for capturing the full spectrum of human nature within the compressed confines of a short story. Collected Short Stories: Volume 2 gathers a rich selection of his finest shorter works, transporting readers from the rain-soaked verandas of the South Pacific to the drawing rooms of colonial Malaya, chronicling the lives of planters, missionaries, expatriates, and wanderers caught in moments of moral crisis, quiet desperation, and startling revelation. Maugham's prose is a masterclass in economy and irony — deceptively simple on the surface, yet charged beneath with acute psychological insight and an unflinching eye for human weakness and resilience. His narrative voice, cool and dispassionate yet deeply humane, holds a mirror up to the contradictions of empire, marriage, ambition, and desire. A titan of British letters whose work bridges the Victorian tradition and the modernist moment, Maugham remains as compulsively readable today as when these tales first appeared — and the next story in this collection may well be the one that stays with you longest.