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 abstention and greed,as well as a host of other brilliant tales.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099287391Number of pages: 544Weight: 373 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 32 mm
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Fascinating tales,sharply revealed characters,a fine narrative craftHe was a superb storyteller - one of the very best in our language - who wrote with a wordly,sardonic understanding of the human condition. Writing was his life; everything else was secondary to it
W. Somerset Maugham
British playwright,novelist and short story writer,who was reputedly the best paid English writer of the 1930s...
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