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About Complete Short Stories, Volume 3 (Unabridged)

In 1938 Maugham wrote, "Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now, looking back on it, I can hardly distinguish one from the other." Maugham also wrote that most of his short stories were inspired by accounts he heard firsthand during his travels to the lonely outposts of the British Empire. His beautifully restrained prose allowed him to explore the tensions and passions of isolated white colonists without the use of cloying melodrama. In volume three of this series, we present all of the remaining short stories which Maugham published after World War I and which he subsequently caused to be republished in various collections. The stories in volume three are:

1. The Buried Talent 2. French Joe 3. German Harry 4. The Four Dutchmen 5. The End of the Flight 6. Flotsam and Jetsam 7. A Casual Affair 8. Mr. KnowAll 9. Straight Flush 10. The Portrait of a Gentleman 11. Raw Material 12. A Friend in Need 13. The Dream 14. The Taipan 15. The Consul 16. Mirage 17. Mabel 18. Masterson 19. A Marriage of Convenience 20. Princess September 21. In a Strange Land 22. The Lotus Eater 23. Salvatore 24. The WashTub 25. Mayhew 26. The Happy Man 27. The Point of Honor 28. The Mother 29. The Romantic Young Lady 30. The Poet 31. A Man from Glasgow 32. The Lion's Skin 33. The Three Fat Women of Antibes 34. The Happy Couple 35. The Voice of the Turtle 36. The Facts of Life 37. Gigolo and Gigolette 38. Appearance and Reality 39. The Luncheon 40. The Unconquered 41. The Ant and the Grasshopper 42. Home 43. The Escape 44. The Judgement Seat And more....