Collected short stories. Volume 1.- Maugham, William Somerset

Vintage. 2000. Short stories, English., Short story, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short stories., FICTION / General, Electronic books 20 cm. 536 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. W. Somerset Maugham. [Short stories ]. Vintage classics. Originally published in 3 vols. as: The complete short stories. London : Heinemann, 1951. Print version record. This collection originally published: in 3 vols, as The complete short stories , London : Heinemann, 1951 ; and in 4 vols. as the Collected short stories [of] W. Somerset Maugham , London : Pan Books, 1975. Contents V. 1: 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 judgment 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 -- V. 2. The vessel of wrath -- The force of circumstance -- Flotsam and jetsam -- The alien corn -- The creative impulse -- Virtue -- The man with the scar -- The closed shop -- The bum -- The dream -- The treasure -- The colonel s lady -- Lord Mountdrago -- The social sense -- The verger -- In a strange land -- The taipan -- The consul -- A friend in need -- The round dozen -- The human element -- Jane -- Footprints in the jungle -- The door of opportunity -- V. 3. Miss King -- The hairless Mexican -- Giulia Lazzari -- The traitor -- His excellency -- Mr Harrington s washing -- Sanatorium -- V. 4. The book-bag -- French Joe -- German Harry -- The four Dutchmen -- The back of beyond -- P. & O. -- Episode -- The kite -- A woman of fifty -- Mayhew -- The lotus eater -- Salvatore -- The wash-tub -- A man with a conscience -- An official position -- Winter cruise -- Mabel -- Masterson -- Princess September -- A marriage of convenience -- Mirage -- The letter -- The outstation -- The portrait of a gentleman -- Raw material -- Straight flush -- The end of the flight -- A casual affair -- Red -- Neil MacAdam . ISBN: 9780099287391 (pbk.); 0099287390 (pbk.)