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Best Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. Somerset Maugham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Ten of W. Somerset Maugham's wonderful stories in one gorgeous collector's volume.Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risqu� tales of an old, dear and rather wicked friend. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous character ...Show more
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare "Cakes and Ale" is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-c ...Show more
Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction
At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a happy disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one in his father's business, he is now looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with Simon Fenimore, his oldest friend. Yet Paris is not what he expects. And in ...Show more
Collected Short Stories Volume 1 - W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser.
"This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abst ...Show more
Collected Short Stories, Volume 2 by W. Somerset Maugham
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; 'The Man with the Scar', and notably the opening story 'The ...Show more
Collected Short Stories, Volume 4 by W. Somerset Maugham
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice, the stories range from 'The Lotus Eater' in which a man has a vision of a life of bliss in ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers. From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago Pago, in Samoa or Malaya or on a Tahitian tropical isle, the men and women in this collecti ...Show more
The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look forward to an idyllic life together, until they encounter the mesmerising and repulsive Oliver Haddo.
The Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W.Somerset Maugham
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. "I've got all the proof necessary"'. Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsati ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more