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Stories of Hawaii and the South Seas including "Red," the author's most successful short story and "Rain," his most notorious one.
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After working in British Intelligence during World War I, William Somerset Maugham set off to regain his health by traveling to Asia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands. During this trip he gather materials and wrote the stories that appeared in 1921 in The Trembling of a Leaf. The six short stories and two "sketches" include the famous story "Rain"-adapted for both theater and film as Sadie Thompson-a story about the ironic consequences of obsession. Its less known companions, however, have their own merits. "Macintosh" is a taut psychological study of two officials on a remote tropic island. "The Fall of Edward Barnard" is a brief bildungsroman about what is important in life-a pre-cursor of Maugham's well known novel, The Razor's Edge. Of course love is always a subject of the tropics and Maugham's deft, ironic handling of the theme in "Red" and "Honolulu" is masterful. But it is "The Pool" that tells a poignant and tragic tale about the pitfalls for love across cultures. "I have never pretended to be anything but a story teller," Maugham once wrote. These short stories are some of his best, and among the best ever written about the exotic South Seas.
About the Author
Maugham (1874-1965), noted English novelist, playwright and author of masterly short stories, spent several months in the Pacific in 1916 and 1917 during an interlude in his service in British intelligence during World War I. He had wanted to go to the South Seas ever since, as a youth, he had read the tales of Herman Melville, Pierre Loti, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Maugham's keen observation and narrative are at their height in this sheaf of Pacific stories.
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- PublisherMutual Publishing
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0935180214
- ISBN 13 9780935180213
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages302
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