书名：Collected Short Stories Volume 1-4毛姆短篇故事集1-4
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1300
作者：William Somerset Maugham
出版社名称：Vintage Classics 
出版时间：2000
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099287391
商品尺寸：13.0 x12.5 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：1910

Collected Short Stories Volume《毛姆短篇故事集》带我们去往英国、法国、意大利和墨西哥等国家，还引我们领略了太平洋岛国的风情。毛姆笔下的世俗男女在一幕幕凛冽的人间短剧中出演了一个个令人难以忘怀的角色。人性弱点无时不在精确透视之下，人际关系被一次次地冷冷剖析。在各种光怪陆离的场景中，迷失的人性引发了一连串的悲剧。
推荐理由：
1.毛姆生前是全世界名气大、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；
2.短篇小说在毛姆的创作中占有重要地位，安东尼•伯吉斯就曾评价他写下了“英语文学中独占鳌头的短篇故事”；
3.《人性的枷锁》《刀锋》等长篇小说使毛姆驰名世界，而他的短篇则以编织故事的精湛技巧，对人性和社会生活的敏锐洞察，为其赢得了更多读者，成为一种全球现象；
4.毛姆以对人性的深刻洞察著称，翻开他擅长的短篇故事，犹如与一位世事洞明的长者闲谈对晤，其内核却是一个永远离经叛道的文青，听从内心的召唤，向往着更为纯粹的文艺生命，召唤着来自任何时代普通读者的共鸣；
5.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 is a collection ofSomerset Maugham’s famous short stories, such as Rain,The Three Fat Women of Antibes,Flotsam and Jetsam, The Man with the Scar, andso on.
The short story was Maugham’strue métier, and the stories he wrote are among the best in the language.—Anthony Burgess
A brilliant entertainer. —New York Times
The most persuasive espionage fiction.—New York Times
If all else perish, there will remain a storyteller’s world that is exclusively and forever Maugham—The Times

Collected Short Stories Volume《毛姆短篇故事集》书中精选毛姆代表作若干，篇篇幽默风趣，讽刺意味浓。毛姆一生共创作了150多部短篇小说，较有代表性的短篇集有《一叶颤动》《木麻黄树》《阿金》《四海为家的人们》等。他的短篇小说可分为三大类：以欧洲为背景的“西方故事”，以南太平洋、东南亚和中国为背景的“东方故事”，以及阿兴登间谍故事。这些短篇故事是如此机智巧妙，我们可以随时随地从任何一个故事开始读，无论是一个人的寒冷冬夜还是坐在地铁上的片刻时光，只要翻开书页，您马上就会进入另一个世界，那些带有浓郁“异域情调”的东方题材故事让读者欲罢不能。
This classic collection of storiesfirstlymoves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. And then the Volume 2move from Malaya to the U.S. to England.The third volume of Maugham’s stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI.And the final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham’s unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice. It includes several famous story, like Rain,The Three Fat Women of Antibes,Flotsam and Jetsam, The Man with the Scar, andso on.What is more, the author also talks about his own experiences in Switzerland and thosetales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice..

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. 

Collected Short Stories Volume 1《毛姆短篇故事集1》
Collected Short Stories Volume 2《毛姆短篇故事集2》
Collected Short Stories Volume 3《毛姆短篇故事集3》
Collected Short Stories Volume 4《毛姆短篇故事集4》

It was nearly bed-time and when they awoke nextmorning land would be in sight. Dr Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to heal than it should, he was glad to settle down quietly at Apia for twelve months at least, and he felt already better for the journey. Since some of the passengers were leaving the ship next day at Pago-Pago they had had a little dance that evening and in his ears hammered still the harsh notes of the mechanical piano. But the deck wad quiet at last. A little way off he saw his wife in a long chair talking with the Davidsons, and he strolled over to her. When he sat down under the light and took off his hat you saw that he had very red hair, with a bald patch on the crown, and the read, freckled skin which accompanies red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a Scots accent in a very low, quiet voice.
Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste. Their chief tie was the disapprovalthey shared of the men who spent their days and nights in the smoking-room playing poker or bridge and drinking. Mrs Macphail was not alittle flattered to think that she and her husband were the only people on board with whom the Davidsons were willing to associate, and even the doctor, shy but no fool, half unconsciously acknowledged the compliment. It was onlybecause he wad of an argumentative mind that in their cabin at night he permitted himself to crap.