Somerset Maugham (1874-1965). It was nearly. “I wish the rain would stop for a moment,” said Mrs. “I could try to make the. It was not like our soft English rain that drops gently on the earth; it was unmerciful. Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works by the prolific British writer, author.

This first volume of Somerset Maugham's collected short stories includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of the prudish missionary Mr Davidson and Sadie Thompson, the prostitute. The collection contains thirty stories that take us from the islands of the Pacific Ocean to England, France and Spain. They all reveal Maugham's acute and often sardonic observation of human This first volume of Somerset Maugham's collected short stories includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of the prudish missionary Mr Davidson and Sadie Thompson, the prostitute. The collection contains thirty stories that take us from the islands of the Pacific Ocean to England, France and Spain. They all reveal Maugham's acute and often sardonic observation of human foibles and his particular genius for exposing the bitter reality of human relationships. Somerset Maugham learnt his craft from Maupassant, and these stories display the remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller. I recall my tough reading from each story due to my limited vocabulary, intermediate grammar and dialogs in various contexts some 50 years ago while in/after my college years.

However, I kept reading on and on and had humble pride in reading him with relative enjoyment and due appreciation; therefore, I've long owned my grateful thanks to Maugham's readable style, I think my English has thus been improved gradually from such seemingly intensive reading exploration. I think it is one of the ways o I recall my tough reading from each story due to my limited vocabulary, intermediate grammar and dialogs in various contexts some 50 years ago while in/after my college years. However, I kept reading on and on and had humble pride in reading him with relative enjoyment and due appreciation; therefore, I've long owned my grateful thanks to Maugham's readable style, I think my English has thus been improved gradually from such seemingly intensive reading exploration. I think it is one of the ways of the fleeting world when his popularity has normally decreased due to passing years into the 21st century, modernity, new young blood, etc. However, these should not be the reasons why we don't read him at all; first, nowadays we can conveniently visit to know him more at, second, go to some good public/university libraries or large bookstores for his works to find something short and enjoyably readable to read, that is, you may start with any short story in this volume; and finally, try reading one of his any short novels before plunging into his famous 'Of Human Bondage' (Vintage 2000). As for Maugham's newcomers, I would like to encourage them to try according to their reading capability. Indeed, it took years for me to read only 18 from 30 stories but some years ago for some reason I decided to have a go and hopefully plan to finish these remaining 12 as follows: Rain, The fall of Edward Barnard, Honolulu, The luncheon, Mackintosh, The voice of the turtle, The judgement seat, Me Know-All, The poet, The mother, The promise, and The yellow streak.

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Thanks to Jenny who posted her Like today (2017.12.23) on my one-paragraph review of this book, it's one of the rare encouragements for it because then I had no idea to write more there. So I get it from the shelf and write something on what I did and had ideas from this one.

It will be unthinkably out of the idea of reviewing all stories in there; in contrast, I would read his famous first story 'Rain' to recapture what I found, understood, reflected, etc. From it; being scribbled next to the title 'Stunning end'. I have just finished reading his first 48-page story in this volume and still found it stunningly horrible; it's about 'the tragedy of a narrow-minded missionary and a prostitute' (back cover).

It is a tragedy due to the complexity of human's mind, those who can solve and explain this case for us to understand, I think, should have their expertise in psychology/psychiatry. The married missionary was Mr Davidson, the prostitute Miss Sadie Thompson. He is narrow-minded due to his ways of dealing with Miss Thompson by insisting that she would be returned to San Francisco via the ship from Sydney but she disagrees, she hates going back to the penitentiary. So the missionary has intensely prayed for absolution of her sin, she agrees to do as advised but mysterious situations ensue leading to his stunning death on the beach. One of the reasons is that, I think, this story proves the powers of nature in that the rain is more or less one of the causes that affects human's psyche.