Collected Short Stories, Volume 4
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- Synopsis
- From the Preface: in this final volume I have placed the rest of my stories the scene of which is set in Malaya. They were written long before the Second World War and I should tell the reader that the sort of life with which they deal no longer exists. When I first visited those countries the lives the white men and their wives led there differed but little from what they had been twenty-five years before. They got home leave once in five years. They had besides a few weeks leave every year. If they lived where the climate was exhausting they sought the fresh air of some hill-station not too far away; if, like some of the government servants, they lived where they might not see another white man for weeks on end, they went to Singapore so that they might consort for a time with their kind. The Times when it arrived at a station up-country, in Borneo for instance, was six weeks old, and they were lucky if they received the Singapore paper in a fortnight.
- Copyright:
- 1963
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 461 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780140185928
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 08/10/05
- Copyrighted By:
- W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday & Company Inc., International Magazine Company
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Ilene Sirocca
- Proofread By:
- David H. Carter
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.