[英文原版]Short Stories/Vintage Classics/William Somerset Maugham

基本信息

EAN:    9780749397579

ISBN:    0749397578

Publisher:    Vintage Classics

Dimensions:    19 x 12 x 3 centimeters (0.40 kg)

Age Range:    15+ years

内容简介

Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full 

range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as "Rain", 

"The Letter", "The Vessel of Wrath" and "The Alien Corn", Maugham illustrates 

his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compelling 

drama and an acute sense of time and place.

关于作者

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. 

He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He 

spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, 

but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won 

him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came 

out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his 

reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a 

successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed 

productions of various plays and the publication of several short story 

collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the 

autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset 

Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 

1965.