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Creatures of Circumstance - W. Somerset Maugham
Creatures of Circumstance (London: Heinemann, 1947).I have got the first edition of this short story collection by Maugham, Creatures of Circumstance. You will find in this post a brief discussion of its content, information about the first edition, and where you can buy one with very reasonable price.
Maugham's Short Stories: Creatures of Circumstance
This is the last short story collection that Maugham publishes. In the preface Maugham defends himself against the accusation of critics on…
The Mixture As Before - W. Somerset Maugham
The Mixture As Before (New York: Doubleday, 1940)As Maugham explains in the preface, he humorously turns a phrase which is used as an attack on his last collection of short stories to title this collection. This collection consists of several stories that will be recollected in Quartet and Encore and made into films. Two of the stories, "The Three Women of Antibes" and "Gigolo and Gigolette" were recorded by Maugham as an audio book.
The short stories are the followings:
The…