Collected Short Stories, Vol. 1 »

Twenty-four stories set in and around Malaya, America and England. Includes "The Vessel of the Wrath."

Cyril Connolly

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 Sunday Times