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Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular - W. Somerset Maugham

Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (London: Heinemann, 1931).

As the title of the collection indicates, these are stories narrated by the persona "I". They are among the longest short stories by Maugham. The narrator, in most cases, come in contact with the protagonists of the stories that he is going to tell. Except the "Alien Corn" which has a tragic element, the rest are well told and smooth stories of specific circumstances that verge on the ridiculous. &qu…