{"product_id":"collected-short-stories-volume-4-paperback","title":"Collected Short Stories: Volume 4 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. Somerset Maugham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 8.32 x 4.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47402432037042,"sku":"9780140185928","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e6bab2c509668fc9c1e3493624cad78f_29701908-ac13-46b3-9300-b25019644f60.webp?v=1778115777","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/collected-short-stories-volume-4-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}