| Collected Short Stories: Volume 2 Contributor(s): Maugham, W. Somerset (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140185909 ISBN-13: 9780140185904 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.9" W x 7.7" (0.75 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include Flotsam and Jetsam, The Man With the Sca, r and The Vessel of Wrath. 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. |