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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140185895
ISBN-139780140185898
eBay Product ID (ePID)42848
Product Key Features
Book TitleCollected Short Stories: Volume 1
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year1992
GenreFiction
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
Book SeriesClassic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume Number1
Number of Volumes4
Volume Number1
Grade ToUP
Table Of ContentCollected Short Stories Volume 1Preface Rain The Fall of Edward Barnard Honolulu The Luncheon The Ant and the Grasshopper Home The Pool Mackintosh Appearance and Reality The Three Fat Women of Antibes The Facts of Life Gigolo and Gigolette The Happy Couple The Voice of the Turtle The Lion's Skin The Unconquered The Escape The Judgement Seat Mr. Know-All The Happy Man The Romantic Young Lady The Point of Honour The Poet The Mother A Man from Glasgow Before the Party Louise The Promise A String of Beads The Yellow Streak
SynopsisThese 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the Turtle," and "Before the Party." For 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.