{"product_id":"collected-short-stories-volume-4-isbn-9780140185928","title":"Collected Short Stories: Volume 4","description":"This final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham’s unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice. The stories range from “The Lotus Eater” where a man envisions a life of bliss in the Mediterranean, to the astringent tales of “The Outstation” and “The Back of Beyond” in Malaya and South East Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 4Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Book-Bag\u003cbr\u003eFrench Joe\u003cbr\u003eGerman Harry\u003cbr\u003eThe Four Dutchmen\u003cbr\u003eThe Back of Beyond\u003cbr\u003eP. \u0026amp; O.\u003cbr\u003eEpisode\u003cbr\u003eThe Kite\u003cbr\u003eA Woman of Fifty\u003cbr\u003eMayhew\u003cbr\u003eThe Lotus Eater\u003cbr\u003eSalvatore\u003cbr\u003eThe Wash-Tub\u003cbr\u003eA Man With a Conscience\u003cbr\u003eAn Official Position\u003cbr\u003eWinter Cruise\u003cbr\u003eMabel\u003cbr\u003eMasterson\u003cbr\u003ePrincess September\u003cbr\u003eA Marriage of Convenience\u003cbr\u003eMirage\u003cbr\u003eThe Letter\u003cbr\u003eThe Outstation\u003cbr\u003eThe Portrait of a Gentleman\u003cbr\u003eRaw Material\u003cbr\u003eStraight Flush\u003cbr\u003eThe End of the Flight\u003cbr\u003eA Casual Affair\u003cbr\u003eRed\u003cbr\u003eNeil Macadam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. Somerset Maugham\u003c\/b\u003e (1874-1965) lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, \u003cb\u003eLiza of Lambeth\u003c\/b\u003e (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, \u003cb\u003eOf Human Bondage\u003c\/b\u003e (1915), and with \u003cb\u003eThe Moon and Sixpence\u003c\/b\u003e (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, \u003cb\u003eA Man of Honour\u003c\/b\u003e (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with \u003cb\u003eSheppey\u003c\/b\u003e (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with \u003cb\u003eThe Trembling of a Leaf\u003c\/b\u003e, sub-titled \u003cb\u003eLittle Stories of the South Sea Islands\u003c\/b\u003e, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as \u003cb\u003eOn a Chinese Screen\u003c\/b\u003e (1922) and \u003cb\u003eDon Fernando\u003c\/b\u003e (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing \u003cb\u003eThe Summing Up\u003c\/b\u003e (1938) and \u003cb\u003eA Writer's Notebook\u003c\/b\u003e (1949). He became a Companion of Honour in 1954.   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304194527461,"sku":"NP9780140185928","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140185928.jpg?v=1767723909","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/collected-short-stories-volume-4-isbn-9780140185928","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}