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W. Somerset Maugham bibliography

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The following is a bibliography of the works of W. Somerset Maugham, one of the most prolific and popular English writers of the 20th century. Unless otherwise noted, all information comes from Raymond Toole Stott, A bibliography of the works of W. Somerset Maugham (1973)^[1] or the cited editions themselves.

Novels

Liza of Lambeth (1897)

• T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First Edition.
• Doran, 1921. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1930. Travellers' Library Edition. New 6pp Preface.
• Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 21pp preface, expanded from the previous one.
• Heinemann, 1947. Jubilee Edition of 1000 copies signed by Maugham.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the full 1934 preface.

The Making of a Saint (1898)

• L.C.Page, 1898. First Edition.
• T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. First English Edition.
• Kessinger Publishing, 2008. Reprint of an illustrated American edition from 1922.

The Hero (1901)

• Hutchinson, 1901. First Edition.
• Kessinger Publishing, 2000. Reprint of the First Edition.
• Norilana Books, 2008.

Mrs Craddock (1902)

• Heinemann, 1902. First Edition. Censored.
• Doran, 1920. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1928. Restored and Revised Edition. New Preface.^[2]
• Heinemann, 1937. The Collected Edition. Revisions and Preface from 1928.
• Heinemann, 1955. New Preface. Revisions from 1928.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Revisions from 1928. Preface from 1955.

The Merry-go-round (1904)

• Heinemann, 1904. First Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2000.

The Bishop's Apron (1906)

• Chapman and Hall, 1906. First Edition.

The Explorer (1908)

• Heinemann, 1908. First Edition.
• Baker & Taylor, 1909. First American Edition.
• Heron, 1969. Together with The Land of the Blessed Virgin (1905).
• Aegipian Press, 2000.

The Magician (1908)

• Heinemann, 1908. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1956. The Collected Edition. New A Fragment of Autobiography as a preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains A Fragment of Autobiography.

Of Human Bondage (1915)

• George H. Doran, 1915. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1915. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1934. New Edition (reset). Contains new introduction titled Instead of a Preface featuring a Letter from a 16 years old Admirer and a Frontispiece portrait of the Author by Gerald Kelly.
• Doubleday Doran, 1936. First Illustrated Edition. New 3pp Foreword. Illustrated by Randolph Schwabe. Deluxe edition of 751 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Later reprinted as a cheap edition. Never published in England.
• Heinemann, 1937. The Collected Edition. Contains the 1934 Instead of a Preface.
• Pocket books, 1950. Abridged and with New Introduction by the author.
• Modern Library, 1999. Contains the 1936 Foreword. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Commentaries by Theodore Dreiser and Graham Greene.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the 1936 Foreword.

The Moon and Sixpence (1919)

• Heinemann, 1919. First Edition.
• George H. Doran, 1919. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
• Vintage Classics, 1999. Contains no preface.

The Painted Veil (1925)

• George H. Doran, 1925. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1925. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 5pp Preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the 1934 Preface.

Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930)

• Heinemann, 1930. First Edition.
• Doubleday Doran, 1930. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 6pp Preface.
• Modern Library, 1950. New Preface, somewhat similar to the part dealing with the novel in the preface to Vol. 1 of The Selected Novels
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the 1934 Preface.

The Narrow Corner (1932)

• Heinemann, 1932. First Edition.
• Doubleday Doran, 1932. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2001. Contains the 1934 preface.

Theatre (1937)

• Doubleday Doran, 1937. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1937. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1939. The Collected Edition. New 7pp Preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the 1939 Preface.

Christmas Holiday (1939)

• Heinemann, 1939. First Edition.
• Doubleday Doran, 1939. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1941. The Collected Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2001.

Up at the Villa (1941)

• Doubleday Doran, 1941. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1941. First English Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2004.

The Hour Before Dawn (1942)

• Doubleday Doran, 1942. First Edition.
• Angus and Robertson, 1945. First Australian Edition.

The Razor's Edge (1944)

• Doubleday Doran, 1944. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1944. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1948. The Collected Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2000.

Then and Now (1946)

• Heinemann, 1946. First Edition.
• Doubleday, 1946. First American Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2001.

Catalina (1948)

• Heinemann, 1948. First Edition.
• Doubleday, 1948. First American Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2001.

Short Story Collections

See the short story section for more information as regards contents and publication history.

• Orientations (1899)
• The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)
• The Casuarina Tree (1926)
• Ashenden: Or the British Agent (1928)
• First Person Singular (1931)
• Ah King (1933)
• Cosmopolitans - Very Short Stories (1936)
• The Mixture As Before (1940)
• Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
• Princess September

Travel Books[edit]

The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia (1905)

• Heinemann, 1904. First Edition.
• Knopf, 1920. First American Edition. Second edition from the same year retitled Andalusia.
• Heron, 1968. Together with The Explorer (1908).
• Kessinger Publishing, 2000. Reprint of a Heinemann edition from 1905.

On A Chinese Screen (1922)

• George H. Doran, 1922. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1922. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains no preface.

Contents
I The Rising of the Curtain - II My Lady's Parlour - III The Mongol Chief - IV The Rolling Stone - V The Cabinet Minister - VI Dinner Parties - VII The Altar of Heaven - VIII The Servants of God - IX The Inn - X The Glory Hole - XI Fear - XII The Picture - XIII His Britannic Majesty's Representative - XIV The Opium Den - XV The Last Chance - XVI The Nun - XVII Henderson - XVIII Dawn - XIX The Point of Honour - XX The Beast of Burden - XXI Dr Macalister - XXII The Road - XXIII God's Truth - XXIV Romance - XXV The Grand Style - XXVI Rain - XXVII Sullivan - XXVIII The Dining-Room - XXIX Arabesque - XXX The Consul - XXXI The Stripling - XXXII The Fannings - XXXIII The Song of the River - XXXIV Mirage - XXXV The Stranger - XXXVI Democracy - XXXVII The Seventh Day Adventist - XXXVIII The Philosopher - XXXIX The Missionary Lady - XL A Game of Billiards - XLI The Skipper - XLII The Sights of the Town - XLIII NIghtfall - XLIV The Normal Man - XLV The Old Timer - XLVI The Plain - XLVII Failure - XLVIII A Student of the Drama - XLIX The Taipan - L Metempsychosis - LI The Fragment - LII One of the Best - LIII The Sea-Dog - LIV The Question - LV The Sinologue - LVI The Vice-Consul - LVII A City Built on a Rock - LVIII A Libation to the Gods

Note.
The Consul and The Taipan were later published under the same titles in The Complete Short Stories (1951). They also appeared in magazines in 1922 (The Consul as Mr Pete.)

The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey From Rangoon to Haiphong (1930)

• Heinemann, 1930. First Edition.
• Doubleday Doran, 1930. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2001. Contains the 1935 Preface.

Notes.

Five chapters were published in The Complete Short Stories (1951) under different titles as follows: Chapter VI - Mabel. Chapter X - Masterson. Chapter XXXII - Princess September. Chapter XXXIV - A Marriage of Convenience. Chapter XLIII - Mirage.

A Marriage of Convenience is a rewritten version of the early short story of the same title reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories (1969); the later version appeared in magazines under the same title, as did Mirage (both 1929). In magazines, Masterson and Princess September were published as On the Road to Mandalay (1929) and The Princess and the Nightingale (1922), respectively.

Mirage, Princess September and A Marriage of Convenience also appeared as The Opium Addict, September's Bird and The French Governor, respectively, in a volume titled The Maugham Reader (1950, Doubleday, with an introduction by Glenway Wescott).

Essays, Memoirs, Notes, Miscellaneous Writings

Don Fernando (1935)

• Heinemann, 1935. First edition
• Doubleday Doran, 1935. First American edition.
• Heinemann, 1937. The Collected Edition.
• Heinemann, 1950. Revised Edition. Contains new Author's Note as a preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the revisions and the Author's Note from 1950.

The Summing Up (1938)

• Heinemann, 1938. First Edition.
• Doubleday Doran, 1938. First American Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2001.

France At War (1940)

• Heinemann, 1940. First Edition. Paperback.
• Doubleday Doran, 1940. First American Edition.

Books and You (1940)

• Heinemann, 1940. First Edition. Original preface.
• Doubleday Doran, 1940. First American edition. Original preface.

Strictly Personal (1941)

• Doubleday Doran, 1941. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1942. First English Edition. Contains a letter to Eddie Marsh. Chapter 15 omitted.

Great Novelists and Their Novels (1948)

• Winston, 1948. First Edition. Illustrated with pen and ink portraits of the authors by Robert W. Arnold.

Contents:

• The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Old Man Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

A Writer’s Notebook (1949)

• Heinemann, 1949. First Edition. Contains two postscripts, from 1944 and 1949, and original preface.
• Doubleday, 1949. First American Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2001. Contains the original preface.

The Vagrant Mood (1952)

• Heinemann, 1952. First Edition.
• Doubleday, 1953. First American Edition
• Vintage Classics, 2001.

Contents: Augustus - Zurbaran - The Decline and Fall of the Detective Story - After Reading Burke - Reflections on a Certain Book - Some Novelists I Have Known

Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)

• Heinemann, 1954. First Edition. Revised and expanded version of Great Novelists and Their Novels (1948)
• Doubleday, 1955. First American Edition. Titled The Art of Fiction.
• Vintage Classics, 2001.

Points of View (1958)

• Heinemann, 1958. First Edition.
• Doubleday, 1959. First American Edition.
• Vintage Classics, 2000.

Contents: The Three Novels of a Poet - The Saint - Prose and Dr. Tillotson - The Short Story - Three Journalists

Pamphlets

• My South Sea Island (1922) [Article. Reprinted in Traveller in Romance, 1984.]

• The Judgment Seat (1934) [Short story from Cosmopolitans, 1936.]

• Princess September and The Nightingale (1939) [Short story from Cosmopolitans, 1936. Appeared as a pamphlet in 1938.]

• The Unconquered (1944) [Short story from Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]

• Of Human Bondage, with a Digression on the Art of Fiction: An Address (1946) [An address given by Maugham on 20 April 1946 in Coolidge Auditorium, The Library of Congress, on the occasion of his presenting the original manuscript of Of Human Bondage to the Library of Congress.]

• The Writer’s Point of View (1951) [Ninth Annual Lecture of National Book League given by Maugham in Kingsway Hall on 24 October 1951.]

• The Saint (1958). [Essay from Points of View, 1958]

• Purely For My Pleasure (1962) [Art album of Maugham's collection with short commentaries by him.]

Important Collected Editions

The Complete Short Stories. Heinemann, 1951, 3 vols.
Contains 91 short stories: 84 from all collections but Orientations (1899) and 7 pieces from the travel books: two from On A Chinese Screen (1922) and five from The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930). New Preface to each volume by the author and in order chosen by him.

The Complete Short Stories. Doubleday, 1952, 2 vols., First American Edition.
The same 91 short stories as in the Heinemann edition above but with completely different Prefaces. Vol. 1 is titled East and West, was first published in 1934, also under the English title Altogether, and contains new 26 pp preface on the art of short story. Vol. 2 is titled The World Over, was first published in 1952, and contains new 8 pp preface.

The Collected Plays. Heinemann, 1952, 3 vols.
Contain 18 plays. New Preface to each volume by the author. First published in 1931–34 in 6 vols. The plays in the 1952 edition are identical, the prefaces were only slightly adjusted.

I. Lady Frederick - Mrs. Dot - Jack Straw - Penelope - Smith - The Land of Promise.
II. Our Betters - The Unattainable - Home and Beauty - The Circle - The Constant Wife - The Breadwinner.
III. Caesar`s Wife - East of Suez - The Sacred Flame - The Unknown - For Services Rendered - Sheppey.

The Selected Novels. Heinemann, 1953, 3 vols.
Contain 9 novels. New Preface by the author to each volume.

I. Liza of Lambeth - Cakes and Ale - Theatre
II. The Moon and Sixpence - The Narrow Corner - The Painted Veil
III. Christmas Holiday - Up at the Villa - The Razor's Edge

The Partial View. Heinemann, 1954.
Contains The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949) in one volume. New 5pp preface.

The Travel Books. Heinemann, 1955.
Contains On A Chinese Screen (1922), The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930), Don Fernando (1935) in one volume. New preface by the author.

Selected Prefaces and Introductions. Doubleday, 1963. Reprinted by Heinemann in 1964.

Contents: The Art of Fiction from Ten Novels and their Authors (1954) - Preface to A Writer's Notebook (1949) - Foreword to Of Human Bondage (1915) - Excerpt from the Preface to Vol. III of The Collected Plays (1931) - Prefaces to both volumes of the First American edition of The Complete Short Stories - General Introduction to Traveller's Library (1933) - Introduction to Tellers of Tales (1939) - Introduction to A Choice of Kipling's Prose (1952)

Note.
The date given for the Foreword to Of Human Bondage is incorrect. It was written in 1936 for the First Illustrated Edition by Doubleday.

Collected Short Stories, 4 vols, paperback. The same 91 short stories as in the Heinemann and Doubleday editions. The order is slightly modified, the prefaces are virtually the same as in the Heinemann edition. First published by Penguin, 1963.

Tha Maugham Reader, Doubleday, 1950.
With Introduction by Glenway Wescott and Frontispiece portrait of portrait by Graham Sutherland. Contains 2 novels, 2 plays, 14 short stories, 1 essay and the complete The Summing Up (1938), all previously published:
The Painted Veil - Jane - The Opium Addict - The Facts of Life - Rain - The Treasure - The Outstation - The French Governor - Our Betters - The Summing Up - The Constant Wife - Red - A String of Beads - The Door of Opportunity - September's Bird - The Alien Corn - The Round Dozen - The Vessel of Wrath - Christmas Holiday - El Greco

September's Bird, The Opium Addict and The French Governor are alternative titles for Princess September, Mirage and A Marriage of Convenience, respectively. The last three titles are also used in The Complete Short Stories editions. All three stories also appeared inThe Gentleman in the Parlour (1930), as chapters XXXII, XLIII and XXXIV, respectively.

El Greco is reprint from Don Fernando (1935; Revised, 1950) where the piece is not titled. The version here was most probably taken from the revised edition.

Mr. Maugham Himself, Doubleday, 1954.
Selected and with an Introduction by John Beecroft. Contains 1 novel, 2 short stories, 2 essays, excerpts from A Writer's Notebook(1949) and the complete The Summing Up (1938), all previously published:
Of Human Bondage - Some Novelists I Have Known - Mr Harrington's Washing - The Book Bag - El Greco - The Summing Up - Excerpts from 'A Writer's Notebook'.

The Excerpts from A Writer's Notebook are the two postscripts that Maugham wrote in 1944 and 1949. This reprint of The Summing Upcontains a postscript which comes from Maugham's preface to The Partial View (1954).

Posthumously Published Books by Somerset Maugham

Seventeen Lost Stories. Doubleday, 1969. Edited by Craig Showalter. Contains 17 early short stories first published between 1899 and 1908, including the six that made Maugham's first published collection, Orientations (1899). First publication in book form for the other 11; they all appeared in magazines between 1900 and 1908.

Contents:

• A Bad Example (1899)
• Daisy (1899)
• De Amicitia (1899)
• Faith (1899)
• The Choice of Amyntas (1899)
• The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian (1899)
• Lady Habart (1900)
• Cupid and the Vicar of Swale (1900)
• Pro Patria (1903)
• A Point of Law (1903)
• An Irish Gentleman (1904)
• A Marriage of Convenience (1906)
• Flirtation (1906, written in 1904)
• The Fortunate Painter (1908, as The Fortunate Painter and the Honest Jew)
• Good Manners (1907)
• Cousin Amy (1908)
• The Happy Couple (1908)

Notes

• A Marriage of Convenience was later significantly rewritten and published as part of the travel book The Gentleman in the Parlour(1930).

• Cousin Amy was later significantly rewritten and published under the title The Luncheon in the short story collection Cosmopolitans(1936).

• The Happy Couple was later significantly rewritten and published under the same name in the short story collection Creatures of Circumstance (1947).

Traveller in Romance. Clarkson N. Potter, 1984. Edited by John Whitehead. Contains 65 short pieces spanning 63 years of Maugham's life never published before in any of his books: prefaces and introductions to the works of others, magazine articles, book reviews, curtain-raisers. Non-fiction except for four short stories, three published in magazines before World War I and The Buried Talent, first published as late as 1934 but never reprinted in book form during Maugham's lifetime.

Contents:

CURTAIN-RAISERS
1. Marriages are made in Heaven, Venture (1903).
2. A Rehearsal, The Sketch (1905).

ON PLAYERS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
1. Introduction to The Truth at Last by Charles Hawtrey (1924)
2. Preface to Our Puppet Show by Francis de Croisset (1929)
3. Introduction to Bitter-Sweet and Other Plays by Noël Coward (1929)
4. Foreword to Gallery Unreserved by A. Galleryite [F. T. Bason] (1931)
5. Tribute to Marie Tempest, Souvenir Programme (1935)
6. Gladys Cooper - Introduction to Without veils by Sewell Stokes (1953)

ON PAINTERS AND PAINTING
1. Gerald Kelly - A Student of Character, International Studio (1914)
2. Gerald Kelly - Preface to An Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Gerald Kelly, Leicester Galleries, London (1950).
3. Preface to Catalogue of exhibition Flower Paintings by Marie Laurencin (1934)
4. Paintings I Have Liked, Life (1941)
5. Preface to Peter Arno's Cartoon Review (1942)
6. The Lady from Poonah - Maugham's speech given on 2 May 1951 at the Royal Academy's Annual Banquet in London. Condensed version printed in News Chronicle (1951).
7. Introduction to The Artist and the Theatre by Raymond Mander and Joe Mitcheson (1955)
8. On Having My Portrait Painted, Horizon (1959)
9. On Selling My Collection of Impressionist and Modern Pictures - Preface to Sotheby's Auction Catalogue (1962).

ON WRITERS AND WRITING
1. On Writing for the Films, North American Review (1921)
2. Novelist or Bond Salesman, Bookman (N. Y.) (1925)
3. On Prefaces, Critics and a Novel - Preface to Two Made Their Bed by Louis Marlow (1929).
4. Preface to The House with Green Shutters by George Douglas (1938)
5. Introduction to his anthology Modern English and American Literature (1943)
6. Write About What You Know, Good Housekeeping (1943)
7. Variations on a Theme Dorothy Parker - Introduction to Dorothy Parker, Viking Portable Library (1944).
8. A Plan to Encourage Young Writers - Maugham's Address given on 30 September 1950 at the Book and Author Luncheon in Hotel Astor, N. Y., New York Herald Tribune (1950).
9. On Story-Telling - Address given at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, on 17 October 1950. Reprinted in 1950.
10. Preface to Letters from Madame de la Marquise de Sevigne edited by Violet Hammersley (1955)

BOOK REVIEWS
1. The Ionian Sea by George Gissing, Sunday Sun (1901)
2. Growing-Up - Twenty-Five by Beverly Nichols, Sunday Times (1926)
3. Books of the Year, Sunday Times (1955)

ON HIS OWN WORK
1. How Novelists Draw Their Characters, Bookman (1922)
2. Preface to A Bibliography of the Writings of W. Somerset Maugham by F. T. Bason (1931)
3. Of Human Bondage: With Digression on the Art of Fiction - Address given by Maugham on 20 April 1946 to the Library of Congress (1946).
4. Behind the Story, Wings (1946)
5. By A Way of Preface to A Comprehensive Exhibition of Writings of W. Somerset Maugham (1958)

SHORT STORIES
1. The Spanish Priest, Illustrated London News (1906)
2. The Making of Millionaire, Lady's Realm (1906)
3. A Traveller in Romance, Printer's Pie Annual (1909)
4. The Buried Talent, Nash's Magazine (1934)

WARTIME ARTICLES IN AMERICA
1. In the Bus, Allied Relief Ball Souvenir Program (1940)
2. Reading Under Bombing, Living Age (1940)
3. The Culture That is to Come, Redbook (1941)
4. The Noblest Act, This Week (1942)
5. Why D'You Dislike Us?, Saturday Evening Post (1942)
6. To Know about England and the English, Publishers' Weekly (1942)
7. Morale Made in American, Redbook (1942)
8. Virtue, Redbook (1943)
9. Reading and Writing and You, Redbook (1943)
10. We Have a Common Heritage, Redbook (1943)
11. What Reading Can Do For You, Life Story Magazine (1945)
12. 'Above all, love...', Rotarian (1952)

ON PEOPLE AND PLACES
1. My South Sea Island, Daily Mail (1922)
2. Preface to What a Life! by Doris Arthur-Jones (1932)
3. The Terrorist: Boris Savinkov, Redbook (1943)
4. Spanish Journey, Continental Daily Mail (1948)
5. From Nelson Doubleday 1889-1949, privately printed (1950)
6. Eddie Marsh - Proof-Reading as an Avocation, Publishers' Weekly (1939).
7. Eddie Marsh - From Sketches for a composite literary portrait of Sir Edward Marsh, London, Lund Humphries, (1953).
8. Foreword to Memoirs of Aga Khan (1954)

ON HIMSELF
1. On the Approach of Middle Age, Vanity Fair (1923)
2. Self-Portrait, from Portraits and Self-Portraits by G. Schreiber (1936)
3. Sixty-Five, in W. Somerset Maugham: Novelist, Essayist, Dramatist, A pamphlet about his work, together with a Bibliography, an Appreciation by Richard Aldington. and New Note on Writing by Mr Maugham (1939)
4. On Playing Bridge
4.1. Introduction to Standard Book of Bidding by C. H. Goren (1944)
4.2. How I Like to Play Bridge, Good Housekeeping (1944)
5. Looking Back on Eighty Years, Listener, Home Service Broadcast on 28 January 1954
6. On His Ninetieth Birthday - W. Somerset Maugham talking to Ewan MacNaughton, Sunday Express (1964)

Compiled, edited and introduced by Maugham

• Traveller's Library. Doubleday Doran, 1933. Reprinted the same year as Fifty Modern English Writers. Compilation, 11pp Introduction and Notes by Maugham.

Table of Contents:

General Introduction by W. Somerset Maugham

A NOVEL - Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton

SHORT STORIES - Section I - Note by W. Somerset Maugham - Youth by Joseph Conrad - An Outpost of Progress by Joseph Conrad - The Happy Hypocrite by Max Beerbohm - Enoch by Max Beerbohm - The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen - The Country of the Blindby H. G. Wells - The Celestial Omnibus by E. M. Forster - Io by Oliver Onions - The Second-Class Passenger by Perceval Gibbon -The Ginger-Nut by A. Neil Lyons - Bringing a New Boy by C. S. Evans - The Prussian Officer by D. H. Lawrence - The Tillotson Banquet by Aldous Huxley -

ESSAYS - Section I - Note by W. Somerset Maugham - Swinburne by Edmund Gosse - Robert Louis Stevenson by Edmund Gosse -No. 2 The Pines by Max Beerbohm - Wordsworth in the Tropics by Aldous Huxley - Reminiscences on Conrad by John Galsworthy - A Hermit's Day by Desmond MacCarthy - Dr Burney's Evening Party by Virginia Woolf - How to Know a Good Book from a Bad by H. W. Garrod -

POEMS - Section I - Note by W. Somerset Maugham - The Making of a Poet by Roy Campbell - The Serf by Roy Campbell - Horses on Camargue by Roy Campbell - On Some South African Novelists by Roy Campbell - Blighters by Siegfried Sassoon - Base Detailsby Siegfried Sassoon - Idyll by Siegfried Sassoon - Vision by Siegfried Sassoon - Everyone Song by Siegfried Sassoon - Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc - Lines to a Don by Hilaire Belloc - The Statue by Hilaire Belloc - On a Dead Hostess by Hilaire Belloc - On a Great Election by Hilaire Belloc - Partly From the Greek by Hilaire Belloc - Autumn Evening by Frances Cornford - To a Lady Seen From the Train by Frances Cornford - In the Caves of Auvergne by W. I. Turner - The Bull by Ralph Hodgson - The Mystery by Ralph Hodgson -Leisure by William H. Davies - Sea-Fever by John Masefield - I See His Blood Upon the Rose by Joseph Plunkett - The Rio Grande by Sacheverell Sitwell

A NOVEL - Note - On Arnold Bennett by W. Somerset Maugham [Reprinted in Some Novelists I Have Known from The Vagrant Mood, 1952] - The Old Wives' Tales by Arnold Bennett -

POEMS - Section II - Note by W. Somerset Maugham - A Passer-By by Robert Bridges - On a Dead Child by Robert Bridges -Nightingales by Robert Bridges - Renouncement by Alice Meynell - The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson - The Kingdom of God (In No Strange Land) by Francis Thompson - The Soldier by Rupert Brooke - The Hill by Rupert Brooke - The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke - Heaven by Rupert Brooke - An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare - The Three Strangers by Walter de la Mare - The Little Salamander by Walter de la Mare - Arabia by Walter de la Mare - The Listeners by Walter de la Mare - The Golden Journey to Samarkand: Prologue by James Elroy Flecker - War Song of the Saracens by James Elroy Flecker - The Old Ships by James Elroy Flecker - Brumana by James Elroy Flecker - Hyali by James Elroy Flecker - Down by the Sally Garden by William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats - When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats - To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to a Nothing by William Butler Yeats - That Night Come by William Butler Yeats -

ESSAYS - Section II - Note by W. Somerset Maugham - Florence Nightingale by Lytton Strachey - Religion and Science: Old Wine in New Bottles by Julian Huxley - The Last Judgment by J. B. S. Haldane - On the Value of Scepticism by Bertrand Russell - Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness by Bertrand Russell - A Free Man's Worship by Bertrand Russell - A Night at Pietramala by Aldous Huxley -

SHORT STORIES - Section II - Note by W. Somerset Maugham - Mrs. Johnson by Norah Hoult - The Machine Breaks Down by Osbert Sitwell - The Man With the Broken Nose by Michael Arlen - Biography by Martin Armstrong - The Poet and the Mandrill by Martin Armstrong - The Big Drum by William Gerhardi - Pictures by Katherine Mansfield - Psychology by Katherine Mansfield - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield - The Marquis de Chaumant by Harold Nicolson - Arketall by Harold Nicolson - Lady Into Fox by David Garnett -Louise by Saki (H. H. Munro) - Tabermory by Saki (H. H. Munro) - Esme by Saki (H. H. Munro) -

A NOVEL - Note by W. Somerset Maugham - Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley -

• Tellers of Tales. 100 Short Stories From the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany. Doubleday Doran, 1939. Reprinted in 1943 as The Greatest Stories of All Times. Selection and 27pp Introduction by Maugham.

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Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving - The Stout Gentleman by Washington Irving - La Grande Breteche by Honoré de Balzac - The Gray Champion by Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Crimson Curtain by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe - A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert - Krambambuli by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Francis Bret Harte - Olympe and Henriette by Villiers de l'Isle Adam - - The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy - The Jolly Corner by Henry James - The Procurator of Judaea by Anatole France - Youth by Karl Emil Franzos - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant - The Legacy by Guy de Maupassant - Useless Mouths by Octave Mirbeau - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde - The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans by Arthur Conan Doyle - Typhoon by Joseph Conrad - The Fate of the Baron by Arthur Schnitzler - The Whirlgig of Life by O. Henry - Without Visible Means by Arthur Morrison - The Stricken Doe by Pierre Mille - The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs - The Coach by Violent Hunt - The Last Visit by Tristan Bernard - The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling - Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling - Papago Wedding by Mary Austin - Uncle Franz by Ludwig Thoma -The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells - An Experiment of Misery by Stephen Crane - Tobermory by Saki - To Build a Fire by Jack London - The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy - The Toupee Artist by Nicolai Lyeskov - Mouzhiks by Anton Chekhov - Twenty-Six and One by Maxim Gorky - Sunstroke by Ivan Bunin - Captain Ribnikov by Alexander Kuprin - Hydromel by Vassili Iretsky - Without Cherry Blossom by Pantaleimon Romanof - In the Town of Berdichev by Vassili Grossman - Hunger by Alexander Neweroff - Romanceby Vera Inber - ''Earth of the Hands by Boris Pilnjak - A Letter by Isaac Babel - The Child by Vsevolod Ivanov - The Customer by Georgy Peskov - The Knives by Valentine Katayev - Pippo Spano by Heinrich Mann - Old Rogaum and His Theresa by Theodore Dreiser - A. V. Laider by Max Beerbohm - The Amulet by Jacob Wassermann - Cavalry Patrol by Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Seeds by Sherwood Anderson - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson - Early Sorrow by Thomas Mann - Mr and Mrs Abbey's Difficulties by E. M. Forster - The Invisible Collection by Stefan Zweig - Uncle Fred Flits By by P. G. Wodehouse - In the Last Coach by Leonhard Frank - Counterparts by James Joyce - The Tragedy of Goupil by Louis Pergaud - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence - The Chink by Alexandre Arnoux - Haircut by Ring Lardner - Champion by Ring Lardner - A Balaam by Arnold Zweig - Old Man Minick by Edna Ferber - The Golden Beetle by Bruno Frank - The Catalan Night by Paul Morand - Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken -The Lovely Day by Jacques de Lacretelle - On the Farm by Hans Friedrich Blunck - The Killers by Ernest Hemingway - The Strangersby Katherine Mansfield - The House of Mourning by Franz Werfel - A Start in Life by Ruth Suckow - The Desert Islander by Stella Benson - Big Blonde by Dorothy Parker - Orphant Annie by Thyra Samter Winglow - Nuns at Luncheon by Aldous Huxley - The Rich Boy by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Imposition by L. A. G. Strong - Turn About by William Faulkner - The Doll by J. Kessel - Reduced by Elizabeth Bowen - Maria Concepcion by Katherine Anne Porter - The Cherry Feast by Ernst Glaeser - No More Trouble for Jedwick by Louis Paul - If You Can't Be Good, Be Cautious by T. O. Beachcroft - The Ball by Irene Nemirovsky - Kneel to the Rising Sun by Erskine Caldwell - The Novaks by Christopher Isherwood - Convalescence by Kay Boyle - The Station by H. E. Bates - Oklahoma Race Riot by Frances W. Prentice -

• Great Modern Reading. Introduction to Modern English and American Literature. Nelson Doubleday, 1943. Reprinted the same year as Introduction to Modern English and American Literature. Selection, 9pp Introduction and Notes by Maugham;

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[Commentary by WSM. Short stories:] - Petrified Man by Eudora Welty - The Visit by Andy Logan - The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan -

[Commentary by WSM. Letters:] - An Airman's to His Mother, Anonymous - Three War Letters from Britain -

[Commentary by WSM. Poems:] - Boy with His Hair Cut Short by Muriel Rukeyser - The Express by Stephen Spender - In Railway Halls by Stephen Spender - What I Expected by Stephen Spender - Birmingham by Louis MacNeice - Tempt Me No More by Cecil Day-Lewis - Look, Stranger, at This Island Now by W. H. Auden - A Shilling Life Will Give All the Facts by W. H. Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden - No Doubt Left. Enough Deceiving by James Agee -

[Commentary by WSM. Short stories:] - The Gift by John Steinbeck - The Erne from the Coast by T. O. Beachcroft - Maria by Elizabeth Bowen - The People vs Abe Lathan, Colored by Erskine Caldwell - Night Club by Kathrine Brush - The Lily by H. E. Bates -Mary by John Collier - Brotherhood by H. A. Manhood -

[Commentary by WSM. Essays:] - Let Freedom Ring by Alva Johnston - Art and Isadora by John Dos Pasos -

[Commentary by WSM. Poems:] - To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train by Frances Cornford - Unfortunate Coincidence by Dorothy Parker - Godspeed by Dorothy Parker - Social Note by Dorothy Parker - Indian Summer by Dorothy Parker - Healed by Dorothy Parker - Kindly Unhitch that Star, Buddy by Ogden Nash - If You Can't Eat, You Got To by E. E. Cummings - The Noster Was a Ship of Swank by E. E. Cummings - The Fish by Marianne Moore - In Westminster Abbey by John Betjeman - On His Books by Hilaire Belloc - On Noman, a Guest by Hilaire Belloc - On Lady Poltagrue by Hilaire Belloc - Epitaph on the Politician by Hilaire Belloc - Another on the Same by Hilaire Belloc - Fatigue by Hilaire Belloc - On a Dead Hostess by Hilaire Belloc - On Some South African Novelists by Roy Campbell -

[Commentary by WSM. Short stories:] - Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner - Bill's Eyes by William March - Defeat by Osbert Sitwell - Legend of the Crooked Coronet by Michael Arlen -

[Commentary by WSM. Letters:] - Letter to T. D. D. by D. H. Lawrence - Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell by D. H. Lawrence - Letter to Herbert S. Houston by Walter Hines Page - Letter to Mr Wu by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Letter to Mrs Winthrop Chanler by John Jay Chapman - Letter to William James by John Jay Chapman - Letter to His Wife by John Jay Chapman - Letter to Mrs Winthrop Chanler by John Jay Chapman - Letter to S. S. Drury by John Jay Chapman -

[Commentary by WSM. Poems:] - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon - Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon - From My Diary by Wilfrid Owen - Greater Love by Wilfrid Owen - Breakfast by Wilfrid Owen - The Soldier by Rupert Brooke - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger - The Song of the Ungirt Runners by Charles Hamilton Sorley - - Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman -

[Commentary by WSM. Short stories:] - The Avenging Chance by Anthony Berkeley - The Crime in Nobody's Room by Carter Dickson - A Man Called Spade by Dashiell Hammett -

[Commentary by WSM. Poems:] - Ash-Wednesday by T. S. Eliot - The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot - Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Serviceby T. S. Eliot -

[Commentary by WSM. Essays:] - Comfort by Aldous Huxley - Mary Wollstonecraft by Virginia Woolf - What I Believe by E. M. Forster - How Writing in Written by Gertrude Stein -

[Commentary by WSM. Short stories:] - The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet - - Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter - The Greatest Man in the World by James Thurber - There's Money in Poetry by Konrad Berkovici - The Foghorn by Gertrude Atherton -

[Commentary by WSM. Poems:] - Chicago by Carl Sandburg - Leisure by William Henry Davies - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Edna St. Vincent Millay - O World, Be Nobler by Lawrence Binyon - Blue Girls by John Crave Ransom - Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens - Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers - Promise of Peace by Robinson Jeffers - The Call by Charlotte Mew -

[Commentary by WSM. Essays:] - Dr Arnold by Lytton Strachey - Phineas Taylor Barnum by Gamaliel Bradford -

[Commentary by WSM. Short stories:] - At the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling - Roman Fever by Edith Wharton - I'm a Foolby Sherwood Anderson - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner - The Match-Maker by H. H. Munro (Saki) - Revelations by Katherine Mansfield -

[Commentary by WSM. Short stories:] - The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James -

[Commentary by WSM. Poems:] - The Ghosts of the Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay - Benjamin Pantier by Edgar Lee Masters - Mrs Benjamin Pantier by Edgar Lee Masters - Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day by James Weldon Jonhson - Miniver Cheevy by Edward Arlington Robinson - Richard Cory by Edward Arlington Robinson - Once by the Pacific by Robert Frost - The Pasture by Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost - Puritan Sonnet by Elinor Wylie -

[Commentary by WSM. Essays:] - Seeing People Off by Max Beerbohm - Afterthoughts by Logan Pearsale Smith - Classic Liberty by George Santayana - Dunkirk by Winston Churchill -

[Commentary by WSM. Poems:] - The Listeners by Walter de la Mare - An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling - A Shropshire Lad, XXII by A. E. Housman - Last Poems, XI by A. E. Housman - Last Poems, XXVI by A. E. Housman -More Poems, XII by A. E. Housman - More Poems, XXXVI by A. E. Housman - In Time of The Breaking of Nations by Thomas Hardy -The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy - In Tenebris by Thomas Hardy - Nightingales by Robert Bridges - When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats - The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats - In No Strange Land by Francis Thompson -

• A Choice of Kipling's Prose. Macmillan & Co., 1952. Also published by Doubleday in 1953 as Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best. Selection and Introductory Essay by Maugham.

Contents

Introduction by W. Somerset Maugham

The Finest Story in the World - The Man Who Was - The Tomb of His Ancestors - At the End of the Passage - Wireless - On Greenhow Hill - Love-o'-women - The Brushwood Boy - The Man Who Would Be King - William the Conqueror - They - Tods' Amendment - Mowgli's Brothers - The Miracle of Purun Bhagat - Without Benefit of Clergy - The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat -