A collection of short stories on the south sea islands, among which are the famous red, rain, and the fall of edward barnard, the last of which contains the basic story of what came to be one of the most. Somerset maugham was a british playwright, novelist and short story writer. Somerset maugham, william heinemann ltd, 1952, first edition reprint all of the authors short stories collated into three definitive volumes. A year after his first novel liza of lambeth was published maugham began contributing to magazines and periodicals.
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