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From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies and stands as a superbly entertaining and compelling testament to Maugham''s skill and power as a short story writer.

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Maugham teases out buried secrets as mesmerising as the heat and as menacing as the surrounding jungle * Observer *
If all else perish, there will remain a storyteller's world...that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of verandah and prahu which we enter as well as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, and with a happy and eternal homecoming * The Times *
Ideally you should listen to these stories lying in a long cane chair on the veranda of a dark bungalow sipping a gin and bitters - not that Maugham's writing needs any further atmospheric embellishment * Guardian *

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/07/2000
      ISBN13: 9780099289609, 978-0099289609
      ISBN10: 0099289601
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies and stands as a superbly entertaining and compelling testament to Maugham''s skill and power as a short story writer.

      Trade Review
      Maugham teases out buried secrets as mesmerising as the heat and as menacing as the surrounding jungle * Observer *
      If all else perish, there will remain a storyteller's world...that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of verandah and prahu which we enter as well as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, and with a happy and eternal homecoming * The Times *
      Ideally you should listen to these stories lying in a long cane chair on the veranda of a dark bungalow sipping a gin and bitters - not that Maugham's writing needs any further atmospheric embellishment * Guardian *

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