书名：Collected Short Stories Volume 2毛姆短篇故事集第2册
作者：William Somerset Maugham
出版社名称：Vintage Classics 
出版时间：2000
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099428848
商品尺寸：12.9 x3.3 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：536 （以实物为准）

Collected Short Stories Volume2《毛姆短篇故事集2》精选毛姆24篇短篇小说，描绘英美大陆及东南亚的异国风情。
推荐理由：
1.毛姆被誉为“英国的莫泊桑”，是二十世纪一位会讲故事的作家；
2.毛姆堪称世界上名气大、赚钱多的作家，作品被翻译成几乎所有已知文字，交游惊人广阔，足迹遍及大半个地球；
3.作品结构严谨，起承转落自然，语言简洁，叙述娓娓动听；
4.英文原版无删减，有助于提高文学素养和英文水平。
Collected Short Stories Volume 2is a collection ofSomerset Maugham’s 24 famous short stories, such as “The vessel of wrath”, “TheForce of circumstance “, “Flotsam and Jetsam”, “The Man with the Scar,” andso on.
A brilliant entertainer. —New York Times

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to the U.S. to England and include some of Maugham’s most famous tales: “Flotsam and Jetsam,” the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; “The Man with the Scar,” and notably the opening story “The Vessel of Wrath,” a tale of the unexpected love between a devout missionary nurse and a drunken reprobate.
Maugham illustrates his characteristic wry perception of human foibles and his genius for evoking compelling drama from anacute sense of time and place.
Collected Short Stories Volume2《毛姆短篇故事集2》精选毛姆24篇短篇小说，从马来西亚到美国，再到英国，呈现一个世纪前英国海外殖民地的风土人情，描绘英国和欧陆的人生百态，展露爱情、婚姻、家庭中的层层羁绊，冷峻剖析人性的虚伪、自私与脆弱。

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆，英国小说家、戏剧家。生于律师家庭。父母早死，由伯父接回英国抚养。原来学医，后转而致力写作。他的作品常以冷静、客观乃至挑剔的态度审视人生，基调超然，带讽刺和怜悯意味，在国内外拥有大量读者。代表作有戏剧《圈子》长篇小说《人生的枷锁》《月亮和六便士》，短篇小说集《叶的震颤》《卡苏里那树》《阿金》等。
William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. 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 ofThe 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 autobiographicalThe Summing Up andA Writer’s Notebook.
目录
Preface
The vessel of wrath
The force ofcircumstance
Flotsam and jetsam
The alien corn
The creative impulse
Virtue
The man withthe scar
The closed shop
The bum
The dream
The treasure
The colonel’s lady
Lord Mountdrago
Thesocial 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

One morning while he was thus occupied his head boy came into his bedroom and then with his white podgy little body he looked like a fat funny boy of sixteen. He was an early riser and his breakfast was always ready for him at six. It never varied. It consisted of a sliced thin, and a cup of black coffee. When he had eaten it, he smoked a large Dutch cigar, read the papers if he had not read them through and through already, and then dressed to go down to his office.
One morning while he was thus occupied his head boy came into his bedroom and told him that Tuan Jones wanted to know if he could see him. Mr Gruyter was standing in front of a looking-glass. He had his trousers on and wad admiring his smooth cheat. He arched his back in order to throw it out and throw in his belly and with a good deal of satisfaction gave his breast three or four resounding slaps. It was a manly cheat. When the boy brought the message he looked at his own eyes in the mirror and exchanged a slightly ironic smile with them. He asked himself what the devil his visitor could want. Evert Gruyter spoke English, Dutch, and Malay with equal facility, but he thought in Dutch. He liked to do this. It seemed to him a pleasantly ribald language.