Maugham’s stories tend to be what I might call character studies. The last few stories come from Maugham’s Ashenden collection about a suave, literary spy in Europe during the Great War.
The remainder of the stories usually involve young writer characters observing English high society at arm’s length. Maugham’s characters invariably seem to play a great deal of bridge and walk around wearing sarongs, and all the native women wear Mother Hubbards. Of the 31 stories here, I’d say that over half of them are set in the British Malay peninsula (or similar southeast Asian islands under British administration), usually dealing with a governor or similar such administrator, either as the main character or as the subject of a story related by a travelling writer who acts as the narrator. Even the glowing, fanboyish introduction from Nicholas Shakespeare warns that the stories in this book often feel formulaic or repetitive. In reading these stories in quick succession like I did, this becomes all the more apparent. Maugham tends to write close to home, and as such, often retreads familiar ground. This short story anthology seemed like it would do the trick: I knew that Maugham had been a prolific writer of short stories, and I was eager to see what the author of the fantastic Of Human Bondage could do in this medium. After a particularly work-heavy weekend I needed something I could sink into, something that could envelop me with lush descriptions of far-off lands and times gone by.
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Somerset Maugham, as selected for this immaculate Everyman’s Library edition that I scored for free from my school library. Thirty-one stories make up the Collected Stories of W.
This short story anthology seemed like it would do the trick: I This is a hefty and imposing volume, heavy yet also compact in dimensions and in print.
This is a hefty and imposing volume, heavy yet also compact in dimensions and in print. Just the thing when you need a smart escape.more You can't read just one - these stories are like delicious, but strangely mysterious, potato chips.
The stories often start out as predictable, colonialist vignettes about stolid, boring British colonels and missionaries in exotic locales, but beware, things are not what they appear to be! The natives are not simple creatures, the men are not manly (or even straight), the women are not submissive or obedient, and the quinine isn't quite doing the trick. You can't read just one - these stories are like deliciou These little short stories are tight, twisty, unexpected, and ridiculously addictive. These little short stories are tight, twisty, unexpected, and ridiculously addictive.
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