W. Somerset Maugham bibliography (2)

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Plays

• A Man of Honour (1903)
• Lady Frederick (1912) NB Written but not published in 1903, first produced as a play in 1907
• Jack Straw (1912) NB Written but not published in 1907, first produced as a play in 1908
• Mrs Dot (1912) NB Written but not published in 1904, first produced as a play in 1908
• Penelope (1912) NB Written but not published in 1908, first produced as a play in 1909
• The Explorer (1912) NB Written but not published in 1899, first produced as a play in 1908
• The Tenth Man (1913) NB Written but not published in 1909, first produced as a play in 1910
• Landed Gentry (1913) NB Written but not published in 1910, first produced as a play in 1910
• Smith (1913) NB Written but not published in 1909, first produced as a play in 1909
• The Land of Promise (1913)
• The Unknown (1920)
• The Circle (1921) NB Written but not published in 1919, first produced as a play in 1921
• Caesar's Wife (1922) NB Written but not published in 1918, first produced as a play in 1919
• East of Suez (1922)
• Our Betters (1923) NB Written but not published in 1915, first produced as a play in 1917
• Home and Beauty (1923) NB Written but not published in 1915, first produced as a play in 1919
• The Unattainable (1923) NB Written but not published in 1902, novelised as The Bishop's Apron in 1906, first produced as a play in 1911
• Loaves and Fishes (1924) NB Written but not published in 1903, first produced as a play in 1911
• The Constant Wife (1927) NB Written but not published in 1926, first produced as a play in 1926
• The Letter (1927)
• The Sacred Flame (1928)
• The Bread-Winner (1930)
• For Services Rendered (1932)
• Sheppey (1933) NB Written but not published in 1932, first produced as a play in 1933

Contributions to periodicals

This list represents in chronological order the first printing date of every article or contribution made by Maugham to journals and periodicals during his lifetime. Maugham often tested his audience and his own interest in a story by serialising it through newspaper or magazine periodicals, then later released the story as a novel, or part of a collected short stories book.

• 1. Don Sebastian 1898 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 2. Cupid and the Vicar of Swale 1900 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 3. Lady Habart 1900 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]

A Really Nice Story 1901 [Short Story. Uncollected.]

The Image of the Virgin 1901 [Short Story. Uncollected.]

• 4. Schiffbruchig 1903 [One-act curtain-raiser. Traveller in Romance, 1984, as Marriaged are Made in Heaven.]
• 5. Pro Patria 1903 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 6. A Man of Honour 1903 [Play. Heinemann, 1912.]
• 7. A Point of Law 1903 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 8. An Irish Gentleman 1904 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]

The Criminal 1904 [Short Story. Uncollected.]

• 9. A Rehearsal 1905 [One-act curtain-raiser. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 10. Flirtation 1906 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 11. The Fortunate Painter and the Honest Jew 1906 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969, as The Fortunate Painter.]
• 12. A Marriage of Convenience 1908 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 13. The Making of a Millionaire 1906 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 14. Good Manners 1907 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 15. Cousin Amy 1908 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 16. The Happy Couple 1908 [Short story. Seventeen Lost Stories, 1969.]
• 17. A Traveller in Romance 1909 [Short story. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 18. The Mother 1909 [Short story. The Cassell Miscellany, 1958]
• 19. Pygmalion at Home and Abroad 1914 [Not by Maugham!]
• 20. Gerald Festus Kelly 1915 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 21. Mackintosh 1920 [Short story. The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921.]
• 22. Miss Thompson 1921 [Short story. The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921, as Rain.]
• 23. Red 1921 [Short story. The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921.]
• 24. On Writing for the Films 1921 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 25. The Pool 1921 [Short story. The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921.]
• 26. Honolulu 1921 [Short story. The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921.]
• 27. My South Sea Island 1922 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 28. Foreign Devils 1922 [Sketch. On a Chinese Screen, 1922, as Dinner Parties.]
• 29. Fear 1922 [Sketch. On a Chinese Screen, 1922.]
• 30. A City Built on a Rock 1922 [Sketch. On a Chinese Screen, 1922.]
• 31. Philosopher 1922 [Sketch. On a Chinese Screen, 1922.]
• 32. Two Studies – Mr Pete & The Vice-Consul 1922 [Sketch. On a Chinese Screen, 1922.]
• 33. Taipan 1922 [Sketch. On a Chinese Screen, 1922.]
• 34. The Princess and the Nightingale 1922 [Short story. The Gentleman in the Parlour, 1930, Ch XXXII ; The Complete Short Stories, 1951, as Princess September.]
• 35. Before the Party 1922 [Short story. The Casuarina Tree, 1926.]
• 36. Bewitched 1923 [Short story. The Casuarina Tree, 1926, as P & O.]
• 37. The Imposters 1923 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as Raw Material.]
• 38. Mayhew 1924 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 39. German Harry 1924 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 40. The Force of Circumstance 1924 [Short story. The Casuarina Tree, 1926.]
• 41. In a Strange Land 1924 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 42. The Luncheon 1924 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 43. The Round Dozen 1924 [Short story. First Person Singular, 1931.]
• 44. The Woman Who Wouldn’t Take a Hint 1924 [Short story. The Gentleman in the Parlour, 1930, Ch VI ; The Complete Short Stories, 1951, as Mabel.]
• 45. The Letter 1924 [Short story. The Casuarina Tree, 1926.]
• 46. A Dream 1924 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as The Dream.]
• 47. The Outstation 1924 [Short story. The Casuarina Tree, 1926.]
• 48. The Happy Man 1924 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 49. Salvatore the Fisherman 1924 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as Salvatore.]
• 50. Home from the Sea 1925 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as Home.]
• 51. The Ant and the Grasshopper 1924 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936..]
• 52. Mr Know-All 1925 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936..]
• 53. Novelist or Bond Salesman 1925 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 54. The Widow’s Might 1925 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as The Escape.]
• 55. The Man Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly 1925 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as A Friend in Need.]
• 56. The Code of a Gentleman 1925 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as Portrait of a Gentleman.]
• 57. The Yellow Streak 1925 [Short story. The Casuarina Tree, 1926.]
• 58. The Most Selfish Woman I Knew 1925 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as Louise.]
• 59. The Man with a Scar 1925 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 60. The Great Man 1926 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as The Poet.]
• 61. An Honest Woman 1926 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as The Promise.]
• 62. The End of the Flight 1926 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 63. Another Man without a Country 1926 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as French Joe.]
• 64. Consul 1926 [Short story. On a Chinese Screen, 1922, The Complete Short Stories, as The Consul.]
• 65. The Creative Impulse 1926
• 66. The Closed Shop 1927 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 67. Footprints in the Jungle 1927 [Short story. Ah King, 1933.]
• 68. Pearls 1927 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as A String of Beads.]
• 69. Advice to a Young Author 1927 [Article. Never reprinted in a book form?]
• 70. The Traitor 1927 [Short story. Ashenden, 1928, as Ch 9&10; The Complete Short Stories, 1951.]
• 71. One of Those Women 1927 [Short story. Ashenden, 1928, as Ch 5, The Dark Woman; The Complete Short Stories, 1951, as part of The Hairless Mexican.]
• 72. His Excellency 1928 [Short story. Ashenden, 1928, as Ch 11&12; The Complete Short Stories, 1951.]
• 73. The Hairless Mexican 1928 [Short story. Ashenden, 1928, as Ch 4-6; The Complete Short Stories, 1951.]
• 74. Mr Harrington’s Washing 1928 [Short story. Ashenden, 1928, as Ch 14&16; The Complete Short Stories, 1951.]
• 75. The British Agent 1928 [Short story. Ashenden, 1928, as Ch 1&3; The Complete Short Stories, 1951, as Miss King.]
• 76. The Four Dutchmen 1928 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 77. In Hiding 1929 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as The Wash Tub.]
• 78. A Derelict 1929 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as The Bum.]
• 79. The Extraordinary Sex 1929 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as The Social Sense.]
• 80. Straight Flush 1929 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936.]
• 81. The Man Who Made His Mark (later retitled as The Verger) 1929 [Short story. Cosmopolitans, 1936, as The Verger.]
• 82. Through the Jungle 1929 [Travelogue. The Gentleman in the Parlour, 1930.]
• 83. Mirage 1929 [Short story. The Gentleman in the Parlour, 1930, Ch XLIII; The Maugham Reader, 1950, as The Opium Addict;The Complete Short Stories, 1951.]
• 84. A Marriage of Convenience 1929 [Short story. The Gentleman in the Parlour, 1930, Ch XXXIV; The Maugham Reader, 1950, asThe French Governor; The Complete Short Stories, 1951.]
• 85. On the Road to Mandalay 1929 [Short story. The Gentleman in the Parlour, 1930, Ch X; The Complete Short Stories, 1951, asMasterson.]
• 86. Cakes and Ale 1930 [Novel. Heinemann, Doubleday, 1930.]
• 87. Maltreat the Dead in Fiction 1930 [Article? Reprinted?]
• 88. The Human Element 1930 [Short story. First Person Singular, 1931.]
• 89. Virtue 1931 [Short story. First Person Singular, 1931.]
• 90. The Vessel of Wrath 1931 [Short story. Ah King, 1933.]
• 91. Maugham Discusses Drama 1931 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 92. Arnold Bennett 1931 [Essay. Traveller's Library, 1933, ed. W.S.M.; The Vagrant Mood, 1952, as part from Some Novelists I Have Known'.]
• 93. The Right Thing is the Kind Thing 1931 [Short story. AH King, 1931, as The Back of Beyond.]
• 94. The Alien Corn 1931 [Short story. First Person Singular, 1931.]
• 95. The Door of Opportunity 1931 [Short story. Ah King, 1933.]
• 96. The Temptation of Neil MacAdam 1932 [Short story. Ah King, 1933, as Neil MacAdam.]
• 97. The Narrow Corner 1932 [Novel. Heinemann, Doubleday, 1932.]
• 98. For Services Rendered 1932 [Play. The Collected Plays, 1952, vol. III.]
• 99. The Three Fat Women of Antibes 1933 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940.]
• 100. The Buried Talent 1934 [Short story. Traveller in Romance, 1984; Far Eastern Tales, 1993.]
• 101. The Best Ever 1934 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940, as The Best Ever.]
• 102. How I Write Short Stories 1934 [Essay. East and West, 1934, introduction.]
• 103. The Short Story 1934 [Essay. Probably East and West, 1934, introduction.]
• 104. A Casual Affair 1934 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 105. Appearance and Reality 1934 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 106. The Voice of the Turtle 1935 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940.]
• 107. Gigolo and Gigolette 1935 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940.]
• 108. The Lotus Eater 1935 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940.]
• 109. An Official Position 1937 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940.]
• 110. The Lion’s Skin 1937 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940.]
• 111. The Sanatorium 1938 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 112. The Professional Writer 1939 [Article. Never reprinted in book form.]
• 113. Doctor and Patient 1939 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940, as Doctor and Patient.]
• 114. Books and You 1939 [Article. Books and You, 1940.]
• 114. You and Some More Books 1939 [Article. Books and You, 1940.]
• 115. The Facts of Life 1939 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940.]
• 116. A Man with a Conscience 1939 [Short story. The Mixture as Before, 1940.]
• 117. Christmas Holiday 1939 [Novel. Heinemann, Doubleday, 1939]
• 118. Proof Reading as an Avocation 1939 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 119. Classic Books of America 1940 [Article. Books and You, 1940.]
• 120. The Villa on the Hill 1940 [Novel. Heinemann, Doubleday, 1941, as Up at the Villa.]
• 121. Britain Views the French Navy 1940 [Article. Strictly Personal?, 1941.]
• 122. The Refugee Ship 1940 [Article. Strictly Personal, 1941.]
• 123. The Insider Story of the Collapse of France 1940 [Article. Strictly Personal, 1941.]
• 124 The Lion at Bay 1940 [Article. Strictly Personal, 1941.]
• 125 Reading under Bombing 1940 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 126 Give me a Murder 1940 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 127 What Tomorrow Holds 1941 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 128 They are Strange People 1941 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 129 Novelist’s Flight from France 1941 [Article. Strictly Personal, 1941.]
• 130 Little Things of no Consequence 1941 [Article. Strictly Personal, 1941.]
• 131 We Have Been Betrayed 1941 [Article. Strictly Personal, 1941.]
• 132 Escape to America 1941 [Article. Strictly Personal, 1941.]
• 133 Theatre 1941 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 134 Mr Tomkin’s Sitter 1941 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 135 The Culture that is to Come 1941 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 136 An Exciting Prospect 1941 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 137 Paintings I Have Liked 1941 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 138 The Hour Before Dawn 1941 [Novel. Doubleday, 1942.]
• 139 Why Do You Dislike Us? 1942 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 140 To Know About England and the English 1942 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 141 Morale Made in America 1942 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 142 The Happy Couple 1943 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 143 Virtue 1943 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 144 Unconquered 1943 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 145 The Captain and Miss Reid (later retitled as Winter Cruise) 1943
• 146 Reading and Writing and You 1943 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 147 We Have a Common Heritage 1943 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 148 The Terrorist 1943 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 149 Write about What You Know 1943 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 150 The Razor’s Edge 1943 [Novel. Heinemann, Doubleday, 1944.]
• 151 How I Like to Play Bridge 1944 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 152 In Defence of Who-Done-Its 1945 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 153 What Reading Can Do For You 1945 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 154 The Colonel’s Lady 1946 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 155 A Woman of Fifty 1946 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 156 Function of the Writer 1946 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 157 Then and Now 1946 [Novel. Heinemann, Doubleday, 1946.]
• 158 Behind the Story 1946 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 159 Episode 1947 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 160 The Point of Honour 1947 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 161 What Should a Novel Do? 1947 [Article. Never reprinted in book form?]
• 162 The Romantic Young Lady 1947 [Short story. Creatures of Circumstance, 1947.]
• 163 Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary 1947 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 164 Henry Fielding and Tom Jones 1947 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 165 Honoré de Balzac and Old Man Goriot 1948 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 166 Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights 1948 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 167 Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov 1948 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 168 Stendhal and the Red and the Black 1948 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 169 Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice 1948 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 170 Herman Melville and Moby Dick 1948 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 171 Charles Dickens and David Copperfield 1948 [Essay. Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948.]
• 172 Catalina 1948 [Novel. Heinemann, Doubleday, 1948.]
• 173 Spanish Journey 1948 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 174 Ten Best Sellers 1948 [Probably excerpts from Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948?]
• 175 A Writer’s Notebook 1949 [Notes. Heinemann, Doubleday, 1949.]
• 176 Augustus 1949/1950 [Essay. The Vagrant Mood, 1952,]
• 177 Zurbaran 1950 [Essay. The Vagrant Mood, 1952,]
• 178 After Reading Burke 1950/1951 [Essay. The Vagrant Mood, 1952,]
• 179 Somerset Maugham Tells a Story of the Lady from Poonay 1951 [Speech. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 180 The Bidding Started Slowly 1952 [Article.]
• 181 Looking Back on Eighty Years 1954 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 182 Somerset Maugham and the Greatest Novels 1954 [Essays. Ten Novels and Their Authors, 1954.]
• 183 The Perfect Gentleman 1955
• 184 On Having My Portrait Painted 1959 [Article. Traveller in Romance, 1984.]
• 185 Credo of a Story Teller 1959 [Essay. Points of View, 1958.]
• 186 On the Approach of Middle Age 1960 [Article. Traveller in Romance, c. 1984.]
• 187 Looking Back 1962 [Memoirs. Three parts. Never published in book form.]

Short Stories

Short Story Collections

1. Orientations (1899), 6 pieces.
2. The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), 6 pieces
3. The Casuarina Tree (1926), 6 pieces.
4. Ashenden (1928), 6 pieces.
5. First Person Singular (1931), 6 pieces.
6. Ah King (1933), 6 pieces.
7. Cosmopolitans (1936), 29 pieces.
8. The Mixture as Before (1940), 10 pieces.
9. Creatures of Circumstance (1947), 15 pieces.

Notes:

The original volume Ashenden (1928) actually contained 16 chapters; 15 of them were later merged into six long short stories; one was omitted.

Short Stories in Travel Books

There are seven short stories which made their first appearances in book form as parts of Maugham's travel books:

On a Chinese Screen (1922)
1. The Consul
2. The Taipan

The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930)
1. Mabel (Chapter VI)
2. Masterson (Chapter X)
3. Princess September (Chapter XXXII)
4. A Marriage of Convenience (Chapter XXXIV)
5. Mirage (Chapter XLIII)

Notes

The titles given above are those used in Maugham's collections of short stories.

Princess September was first published as he Princess and the Nightingale in Queen's Dolls' House Library (1924). In 1939 it appeared as a pamphlet under the same title.

A Marriage of Convenience is a rewritten version of the early short story with the same name that is reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories(1969).

In magazines Masterson, Mabel and Princess September were published as On the Road to Mandalay (1929), The Woman Who Wouldn't Take a Hint (1924) and The Princess and the Nightingale (1922), respectively. Mirage appeared under the same title (1929).

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).

Collected Editions of Maugham's Short Stories

There are three major, multi-volume collections of Maugham's short stories. They all contain exactly the same 91 pieces: 84 from all collections save Orientations (1899) and 7 pieces from the travel books.

The Complete Short Stories. Heinemann, 1951, 3 vols.

The Complete Short Stories. Doubleday, 1952, 2 vols., First American Edition.
Vol. 1: East and West (1934).
Vol. 2: The World Over (1952).

The Collected Short Stories. Penguin, 1963, 4 vols. Reprinted later by Pan, Mandarin, Vintage.

Raymond Toole Stott considers the Heinemann edition to be definitive. The edition in four volumes titled The Collected Short Stories is virtually identical with Heinemann's. Few slight changes in the order and in the prefaces were made to accommodate one volume more.

The First American Edition contains the same stories and the order is again chosen by Maugham, but the prefaces are very different. The First volume - East and West - was first published in 1934 and contained a new 26 pp. preface. It includes the 30 pieces from all collections published between 1921 and 1933. The Second volume - The World Over - was first published in 1952 and contained a new preface.

Short Stories in Posthumously Published Volumes

Seventeen Lost Stories. Doubleday, 1969. Edited by Craig Showalter.

Contents

1. A Bad Example (1899)
2. Daisy (1899)
3. De Amicitia (1899)
4. Faith (1899)
5. The Choice of Amyntas (1899)
6. The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian (1899)
7. Lady Habart (1900)
8. Cupid and the Vicar of Swale (1900)
9. Pro Patria (1903)
10. A Point of Law (1903)
11. An Irish Gentleman (1904)
12. A Marriage of Convenience (1906)
13. Flirtation (1906, written in 1904)
14. The Fortunate Painter (1908)
15. Good Manners (1907)
16. Cousin Amy (1908)
17. The Happy Couple (1908)

Notes

The volume contains 17 early short stories first published between 1899 and 1908, including the six from Orientations (1899). None of the other 11 had ever appeared in book form before but they were all published in magazines between 1900 and 1908.

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 the following 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)

Notes

The volume contains 65 short pieces spanning 63 years of Maugham's life never published before in any of his books, including four short stories.

The Buried Talent can also be found in the collection Far Eastern Tales (Mandarin, Vintage), selected by John Whitehead.

Uncollected Stories

1. A Really Nice Story: A Short Tale, Black & White, Nov. 30, 1901, pp. 768–769.

2. The Image of the Virgin: A Short Story, Black & White, Dec. 14, 1901, pp. 840–842

3. The Criminal, Lloyd's Weekly News, July 31, 1904, p. 14.

Total Number of Somerset Maugham's Short Stories

Maugham wrote more than 115 short stories which can be distributed thus:

The Complete Short Stories (1951) - 91 short stories (84 pieces from all collections but Orientations plus 7 pieces from the travel books);

Seventeen Lost Stories (1969) - 17 short stories (all from Orientations plus 11 magazine pieces);

Traveller in Romance (1984) - 4 short stories (miscellaneous pieces from magazines that had never before been published in book form).

To these 112 pieces another three should be added. The latter have come to light only recently and have never been collected in book form, although all of them appeared in periodicals between 1901 and 1904.

What follows is a complete list of all Somerset Maugham's short stories ever published; the final and most well-known titles are given. In square brackets: the year of first publication - usually, but not always, in a magazine - and the alternative title, if any. If the story has never been published in magazine, the first appearance in book form is given, including the title of the volume. The list contains only 110 entries because in two cases (6, 76) different versions published under the same title are merged, and the three recently discovered stories are inserted in between.

• 1. A Bad Example [1899, Orientations]
• 2. A Casual Affair [1934]
• 3. A Friend in Need [1925, as The Man Who Wouldn't Hurt a Fly]
• 4. A Man from Glasgow [never published in magazine; 1947, Creatures of Circumstance]
• 5. A Man with a Conscience [1939]
• 6. A Marriage of Convenience [1906, early version; 1929, late version.]
• 7. A Point of Law [1903]
• 7a. A Really Nice Story [1901]
• 8. A String of Beads [1927, as Pearls]
• 9. A Traveller in Romance [1909]
• 10. A Woman of Fifty [1946]
• 11. An Irish Gentleman [1904]
• 12. An Official Position [1937]
• 13. Appearance and Reality [1934]
• 14. Before the Party [1923]
• 15. Cousin Amy (1908, early version of The Luncheon)
• 16. Cupid and The Vicar of Swale (1900)
• 17. Daisy [1899, Orientations]
• 18. De Amicitia [1899, Orientations]
• 19. Episode [1947]
• 20. Faith [1899, Orientations]
• 21. Flirtation (1906)
• 22. Flotsam and Jetsam [1940]
• 23. Footprints in the Jungle [1927]
• 24. French Joe [1926, as Another Man Without a Country]
• 25. German Harry [1924]
• 26. Gigolo and Gigolette [1935]
• 27. Giulia Lazzari [1928]
• 28. Good Manners (1907)
• 29. His Excellency [1927]
• 30. Home [1924, as Home from the Sea]
• 31. Honolulu [1921]
• 32. In a Strange Land [1924]
• 33. Jane [1923]
• 34. Lady Habart (1900)
• 35. Lord Mountdrago [1939, as Doctor and Patient]
• 36. Louise [1925, as The Most Selfish Woman I Ever Knew]
• 37. Mabel [1924, as The Woman Who Wouldn't Take a Hint]
• 38. Mackintosh [1920]
• 39. Masterson [1929, as On the Road to Mandalay]
• 40. Mayhew [1923]
• 41. Mirage [1929]
• 42. Miss King [1928]
• 43. Mr Harrington’s Washing [1928]
• 44. Mr Know-All [1925]
• 45. Neil MacAdam [1932, as The Temptation of Neil MacAdam]
• 46. P & O [1923, as Bewitched]
• 47. Princess September [1922, as The Princess and the Nightingale]
• 48. Pro Patria [1903]
• 49. Rain [1921, as Miss Thompson]
• 50. Raw Material [1923, as The Imposters]
• 51. Red [1921]
• 52. Salvatore [1924, as Salvatore the Fisherman]
• 53. Sanatorium [1938]
• 54. Straight Flush [1929]
• 55. The Alien Corn [1931]
• 56. The Ant and the Grasshopper [1924]
• 57. The Back of Beyond [1931, as The Right Thing is the Kind Thing]
• 58. The Book Bag [never published in magazine; 1932, The Book-Bag, ed. Ray Long.]
• 59. The Bum [1929, as A Derelict]
• 60. The Buried Talent [1934]
• 61. The Choice of Amyntas [1899, Orientations]
• 62. The Closed Shop [1926]
• 63. The Colonel’s Lady [1946]
• 64. The Consul [1922, as Mr Pete]
• 65. The Creative Impulse [1926]
• 65a. The Criminal [1904]
• 66. The Door of Opportunity [1931]
• 67. The Dream [1924]
• 68. The End of the Flight [1926]
• 69. The Escape [1925, as The Widow's Might]
• 70. The Facts of Life [1939]
• 71. The Fall of Edward Barnard [1921]
• 72. The Force of Circumstance [1924]
• 73. The Fortunate Painter [1908]
• 74. The Four Dutchmen [1928]
• 75. The Hairless Mexican [1927]
• 76. The Happy Couple [1908, early version; 1943, late version.]
• 77. The Happy Man [1924]
• 78. The Human Element [1930]
• 78a. The Image of the Virgin [1901]
• 79. The Judgement Seat [never published in magazine; 1934, pamphlet.]
• 80. The Kite [never published in magazine, 1947, Creatures of Circumstance]
• 81. The Letter [1924]
• 82. The Lion’s Skin [1937]
• 83. The Lotus Eater [1935]
• 84. The Luncheon [1924, late version of Cousin Amy]
• 85. The Making of a Millionaire [1906]
• 86. The Man with the Scar [1925]
• 87. The Mother [1909, early version; 1947, late version.]
• 88. The Outstation [1924]
• 89. The Poet [1925, as The Great Man]
• 90. The Point of Honour [1947]
• 91. The Pool [1921]
• 92. The Portrait of a Gentleman [1925, as The Code of a Gentleman]
• 93. The Promise [1925, as An Honest Woman]
• 94. The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian [1899, Orientations]
• 95. The Romantic Young Lady [1947]
• 96. The Round Dozen [1923]
• 97. The Social Sense [1929, as The Extraordinary Sex]
• 98. The Spanish Priest [1906]
• 99. The Taipan [1922]
• 100. The Three Fat Women of Antibes [1933]
• 101. The Traitor [1927]
• 102. The Treasure [1934, as The Best Ever]
• 103. The Unconquered [1943]
• 104. The Verger [1929, as The Man Who Made His Mark]
• 105. The Vessel of Wrath [1931]
• 106. The Voice of the Turtle [1935]
• 107. The Wash-Tub [1929, as In Hiding]
• 108. The Yellow Streak [1925]
• 109. Virtue [1931]
• 110. Winter Cruise [1943, as The Captain and Miss Reid]

A brief bibliography of the separate volumes follows.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
[first published in magazine under alternative title if any]

1. Orientations.

Short Publication History and Contents

• T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First Edition. No American Edition.

• A Bad Example [never published in magazine]
• Daisy [never published in magazine]
• De Amicitia [never published in magazine]
• Faith [never published in magazine]
• The Choice of Amyntas [never published in magazine]
• The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian [1898, as Don Sebastian]

Notes

• Don Sebastian is Maugham's first published short story ever.
• All six stories are reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories, ed. Craig Showalter (1968).

2. The Trembling of a Leaf. Little Stories from the South Sea Islands.

Short Publication History and Contents

• George H. Doran, 1921. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1921. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
• Heron, 1968. Contains the 1935 preface.

• I. The Pacific [Introduction]
• II. Mackintosh [1920]
• III. The Fall of Edward Barnard [1921]
• IV. Red [1921]
• V. The Pool [1921]
• VI. Honolulu [1921]
• VII. Rain [1921, as Miss Thompson]
• VIII. Envoi [Epilogue]

3. The Casuarina Tree.

Short Publication History and Contetns

• Heinemann, 1926. First Edition. Contains an original preface and postscript.
• George H. Doran, 1926. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. Contains the original preface.

• The Casuarina Tree [preface]
• The Letter [1924]
• Before the Party [1923]
• P. & O. [1923, as Bewitched]
• The Outstation [1924]
• The Force of Circumstance [1924]
• The Yellow Streak [1925]
• Postscript

4. Ashenden. Or the British Agent.

Short Publication History and Contents

• Heinemann, 1928. First Edition.
• Doubleday Doran, 1928. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1934. The Collected Edition. New 6pp Preface.
• Doubleday Doran, 1941. New 7pp Preface, slightly expanded from the 1934 Preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains the 1934 Preface.

1. R. - 2. A Domiciliary Visit - 3. Miss King - 4. The Hairless Mexican - 5. The Dark Woman - 6. The Greek - 7. A Trip to Paris - 8. Giulia Lazzari - 9. Gustav - 10. The Traitor - 11. Behind the Scenes - 12. His Excellency - 13. The Flip of a Coin - 14. A Chance Acquaintance - 15. Love and Russian Literature - 16. Mr. Harrington's Washing

15 of chapters were later merged into six short stories:

• Chapters 1 to 3 later merged into Miss King
• Chapters 4 to 6 later merged into The Hairless Mexican
• Chapters 7 and 8 later merged into Giulia Lazzari
• Chapters 9 and 10 later merged into The Traitor
• Chapters 11 and 12 later merged in His Excellency
• Chapters 14 to 16 later merged into Mr. Harrington's Washing

Notes

• Chapter 13, The Flip of a Coin, was never published separately.

5. Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular.

Short Publication History and Contents

• Doubleday Doran, 1931. First Edition.
• Heinemann, 1931. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1936. The Collected Edition. New 5pp Preface.

• [Preface]
• Virtue [1931]
• The Round Dozen [1923]
• The Human Element [1930]
• Jane [1923]
• The Alien Corn [1931]
• The Creative Impulse [1926]

6. Ah King.

Short Publication History and Contents

• Heinemann, 1933. First Edition. Original preface.
• Doubleday Doran, 1933. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1936. The Collected Edition. New 6pp. Preface, expanded from the original one.

• Ah King [Preface]
• Footprints in the Jungle [1927]
• The Door of Opportunity [1931]
• The Vessel of Wrath [1931]
• The Book-Bag [never published in magazine]
• The Back of Beyond [1931, as The Right Thing is the Kind Thing]
• Neil Macadam [1932, as The Temptation of Neil MacAdam]

7. Cosmopolitans.

Short Publication History and Contents

• Doubleday Doran, 1936. First Edition. Original preface.
• Heinemann, 1936. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1938. The Collected Edition. Contains the original preface.

• Preface
• Raw Material [1923, as The Imposters]
• Mayhew [1923]
• German Harry [1924]
• The Happy Man [1924]
• The Dream [1924]
• In a Strange Land [1924]
• The Luncheon [1924]
• Salvatore [1924, as Salvatore the Fisherman]
• Home [1924, as Home from the Sea]
• Mr. Know-All [1925]
• The Escape [1925, as The Widow's Might]
• A Friend in Need [1925, as The Man Who Wouldn't Hurt a Fly]
• The Portrait of a Gentleman [1925, as The Code of a Gentleman]
• The End of the Flight [1926]
• The Judgement Seat [never published in magazine]
• The Ant and the Grasshopper [1924]
• French Joe [1926, as Another Man Without a Country]
• The Man with the Scar [1925]
• The Poet [1925, as The Great Man]
• Louise [1925, as The Most Selfish Woman I Ever Knew]
• The Closed Shop [1926]
• The Promise [1925, as An Honest Woman]
• A String of Beads [1927, as Pearls]
• The Bum [1929, as A Derelict]
• Straight Flush [1929]
• The Verger [1929, as The Man Who Made His Mark]
• The Wash Tub [1929, as In Hiding]
• The Social Sense [1929, as The Extraordinary Sex]
• The Four Dutchmen [1928]

Notes

• The Luncheon is a significantly rewritten version of Cousin Amy which was first published in magazine in 1908 but had to wait more than 60 years to appear in book form: Seventeen Lost Stories (1969).

8. The Mixture as Before.

Short Publication History and Contents

• Heinemann, 1940. First Edition. Original Foreword.
• Doubleday Doran, 1940. First American Edition.

• Foreword
• The Three Fat Women of Antibes [1933]
• A Man with a Conscience [1939]
• The Treasure [1934, as The Best Ever]
• The Lotus Eater[1935]
• The Lion's Skin [1937]
• Lord Mountdrago [1939, as Doctor and Patient]
• Gigolo and Gigolette [1935]
• The Voice of the Turtle [1935]
• An Official Position [1937]
• The Facts of Life [1939]

9. Creatures of Circumstance.

Short Publication History and Contents

• Heinemann, 1947. First Edition. Original preface.
• Doubleday, 1947. First American Edition.

• The Author Excuses Himself [Preface]
• The Colonel's Lady [1946]
• Flotsam and Jetsam [1940]
• Appearance and Reality [1934]
• The Mother [1947]
• Sanatorium [1938]
• A Woman of Fifty [1946]
• The Romantic Young Lady [1947]
• A Casual Affair [1934]
• The Point of Honour [1947]
• Winter Cruise [1943, as The Captain and Miss Reid]
• The Happy Couple [1943]
• A Man from Glasgow [never published in magazine]
• The Unconquered [1943]
• Episode [1947]
• The Kite [never published in magazine]

The Mother was first published in magazine in 1909 and later was only slightly revised for its inclusion in book form. The early version was first appeared in book form in The Cassell Miscellany (1958).

The Happy Couple was first published in Cassell's Magazine in 1908 but later significantly rewritten. The later version appeared inRedbook (February, 1943) and in Creatures of Circumstance four years later. The early version is reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories(1969).

A Man from Glasgow exists as an early version titled Told in the Inn at Algeciras. It is reprinted in The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre, 1999, ed. Jack Adrian.

Contributions to books by other writers

• Maugham also edited and finished the autobiography of the Victorian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858–1923), called "The Truth at Last", which was posthumously published in (1924).
• Maugham wrote the preface for Doris Arthur Jones' "What a Life!" (1932).
• Contribution to a tribute programme to Marie Tempest (1935).
• Preface to the catalogue of an exhibition of Sir Gerald Kelly (1950).
• "Eddie Marsh" (1953).
• Introduction by Maugham to "Without Veils", biography of Gladys Cooper by Sewell Stokes,(1953)
• Introduction to "The Artist and the Theatre - The story of the paintings collected and presented to the National Theatre by W.Somerset Maugham" by Raymond Mander and Joe Michenson (1955).
• Maugham also wrote the preface for the edition of "Letters from Madame de Sevigne" selected and translated by Violet Hammersley (1955).