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There have been few masters of the short story as popular as W. S. Maugham. His dry wit, worldweary loftiness, pungent cynicism, and penetrating powers of observation have contributed to the creation of some of the greatest short stories ever written.
Over a long period, Maugham continued to write stories that were highly interesting and controversial. With a creative verve for plot development and a jaded eye for the foibles of mankind, Maugham's stories crackle with the irrepressible energy of a master story teller.
All of Maugham's short stories in this and subsequent volumes will be presented in the order in which they were published, beginning in 1921.The stories in Volume One are:- 1. Rain
- 2. The Fall of Edward Barnard
- 3. Mackintosh
- 4. Red
- 5. Honolulu
- 6. The Pool
- 7. The Letter
- 8. Before the Party
- 9. The Force of Circumstance
- 10. The Outstation
- 11. The Yellow Streak
- 12. P. & O.
- 13. Jane
- 14. The Round Dozen
- 15. The Creative Impulse
The Complete Short Stories, Volume One will continue in volumes two and three.
All stories not in public domain are the property of and published by agreement with the W. Somerset Maugham Royalty Trust.
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My fiancé brought me tea and scrambled eggs in bed that morning, and we snuggled together, talking about buying our rings, and about our perfect wedding next year. Then we headed into town. He held my hand and gazed at the ring I liked best, a smile spreading slowly over his face. Then a glass of bubbly to celebrate. I felt flushed, excited and ready for the rest of my life with the man I loved. We race to get on the train home. It screams to a halt and I run towards its open doors. Made it. I think he’s right behind me — but when I turn around, he’s gone.
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- De TerriSweeta en 12-04-24
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The Answer Is No
- A Short Story
- De: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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- De joey1603 en 12-01-24
De: Fredrik Backman, y otros
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Starship Troopers
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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The definitive version!
- De Kristopher G. Hesson en 10-03-24
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Dead Med
- De: Freida McFadden
- Narrado por: Patricia Santomasso, Scott Merriman
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.
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- De Morgan Meaux en 08-22-24
De: Freida McFadden
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Complete Short Stories, Volume Two
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 27 h y 11 m
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In June 1917, W. S. Maugham was asked by the British Secret Intelligence Service, to undertake a special mission in Russia to support Kerensky's government. The mission failed, and two and a half months later, the Bolsheviks took control. Maugham subsequently said that if he had been able to get there six months earlier, he might have succeeded. Quiet and observant, Maugham had a good temperament for intelligence work. The writer used his spying experiences as the basis for his collection of short stories called Ashenden: Or the British Agent. They became the prototype for the modern espionage novel.
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Entirely great
- De William E. Hendry en 05-26-16
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Complete Short Stories, Volume 3
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 27 h y 11 m
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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. 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.
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- De Julieta de los espíritus en 03-11-17
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Far Eastern Tales
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Robert Powell
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire. The stories included on this recording are Footprints in the Jungle, Mabel, P & O, The Door of Oportunity, The Buried Talent, Before the Party, Mr. Know-all, Neil MacAdam, The End of the Flight and The Force of Circumstance.
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As perfect a reading as I've ever heard
- De Ted en 05-30-16
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
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Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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You won't want it to end!
- De Rbjurnee en 04-18-11
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The Summing Up
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life, the proud, the urbane, the crude, and the desperate, passed beneath the lens of his dispassionate scrutiny. Transformed into some of the most unforgettable literary works of the 20th century, his experiences re-emerged in his plays, fiction, and essays.
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Portrait of the artist as an old man
- De Eric Chevlen en 10-30-05
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The Painted Veil
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
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What An Unexpected Delight!
- De Mimi en 10-22-08
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Complete Short Stories, Volume Two
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 27 h y 11 m
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In June 1917, W. S. Maugham was asked by the British Secret Intelligence Service, to undertake a special mission in Russia to support Kerensky's government. The mission failed, and two and a half months later, the Bolsheviks took control. Maugham subsequently said that if he had been able to get there six months earlier, he might have succeeded. Quiet and observant, Maugham had a good temperament for intelligence work. The writer used his spying experiences as the basis for his collection of short stories called Ashenden: Or the British Agent. They became the prototype for the modern espionage novel.
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Entirely great
- De William E. Hendry en 05-26-16
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Complete Short Stories, Volume 3
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 27 h y 11 m
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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. 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.
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- De Julieta de los espíritus en 03-11-17
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Far Eastern Tales
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Robert Powell
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Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire. The stories included on this recording are Footprints in the Jungle, Mabel, P & O, The Door of Oportunity, The Buried Talent, Before the Party, Mr. Know-all, Neil MacAdam, The End of the Flight and The Force of Circumstance.
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As perfect a reading as I've ever heard
- De Ted en 05-30-16
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
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Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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You won't want it to end!
- De Rbjurnee en 04-18-11
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The Summing Up
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life, the proud, the urbane, the crude, and the desperate, passed beneath the lens of his dispassionate scrutiny. Transformed into some of the most unforgettable literary works of the 20th century, his experiences re-emerged in his plays, fiction, and essays.
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Portrait of the artist as an old man
- De Eric Chevlen en 10-30-05
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The Painted Veil
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
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What An Unexpected Delight!
- De Mimi en 10-22-08
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The Narrow Corner
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meets good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.
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Stunningly Great
- De SouthwestDude en 09-08-19
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Cakes and Ale
- or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Neil Hunt
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet. Maugham’s portrait of her makes his novel fairly glow with witty observations of the contemporary literary scene. Features Willie Ashenden, who resurfaces in Maugham’s Ashenden.
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Great character, a little slow towards the end
- De Thomas en 01-03-19
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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection
- Eight Full-Cast Dramatisations and Readings
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings, Janet Maw, full cast
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
- Grabación Original
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A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw.
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Entertaining radio adaptations
- De scout86 en 08-23-21
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Rain and Other Stories
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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W. Somerset Maugham is one of the best-loved short story writers of the last 100 years. In this collection of his finest short work Maugham takes the listener to the sun-drenched Pacific islands where the Governor mercilessly abuses the inhabitants; to the story "Rain", in which the Reverend and the prostitute play out one of the most famous finales ever written; to the studies of chauvinistic Colonels, and snide conversations in Edwardian drawing rooms, as well as at the gates of heaven. As an introduction to one of the greatest writers in the English language Stephen Crossley's reading is the perfect place to start.
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Rain Down on Me
- De W Perry Hall en 01-30-14
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The Razor's Edge
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s.
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An Classic of Love and the Desire for Meaning
- De Eric en 01-06-17
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Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 2
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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Winner of the 2003 Audie Award for Classic Fiction, this is an unparalleled presentation of Maugham's stories, complete with sound effects and music.
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Excellent performance
- De Roy en 04-22-05
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The Gentleman in the Parlour
- A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay in Upper Burma, down through Thailand to Bangkok, then to Phnom Penh and across the jungle by river to Angkor Wat. From there he went down river to Saigon, then by ship to Hue and Haiphong. He ends the audiobook with an anecdotal story of his fellow passengers while on shipboard to Haiphong.
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Excellent introduction to Maugham’s Travel books
- De Bleak House en 09-11-19
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Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 3
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) took his reading material quite seriously. He said, "When I read a book, I seem to read it with my eyes only. But now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." Maugham's work has certainly become a part of millions of his fans today. To judge by his short story masterpieces, it was in the tiny crevasses and pinched corners of humanity that Maugham illuminated those elemental qualities that were to fascinate him all his life.
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Great narrator and great book, rare indeed
- De Erik en 08-08-05
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Ashenden
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Barnaby Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living in Switzerland. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many European countries, he was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. Ashenden is a collection of stories rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity.
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Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 1
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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Winner of the 2001 Audie Award for Classic Fiction, this is an unparalleled presentation of Maugham's stories, complete with sound effects and music.
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Jewels!
- De Jacko45 en 07-05-04
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The Moon and Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.
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- De reggie p en 10-10-05
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 28 h y 2 m
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Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate search for truth in a cruel world. We follow his growth to manhood, his educational progress, his first loves, and the wrenching tragedies and disappointments that life has in store for him. In some of the finest prose of the 20th century, Maugham has presented us with the timeless story of one man's search for the meaning of life.
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Greatly Unsettling
- De Michael en 10-04-14
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Complete Short Stories, Volume One
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- Anat
- 03-15-16
Awesome performance !
Loved every moment of it - Looking forward to listening to all of his books and traveling to those wonderful south sea islands !
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- JHMore
- 02-11-15
Wonderful introduction to WSM
I'd never read anything by Somerset Maugham before, and after the first couple of stories I wondered what all the fuss was about. I'm glad I kept on, because the master storyteller soon emerged in subsequent tales and didn't let up. I will be moving on to the remaining volumes in this series as quickly as I can. The reader is sometimes a bit leaden, and there is an unnecessary musical soundtrack at the beginning and end of each tale, which comes across like a cheesy radio production. But all in all, this is wonderful stuff!
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- Mimi Routh
- 09-22-15
I LOVE THIS AUTHOR!
I am writing this review before I finish listening because I'm finding this author a wonderful new friend. And I wanted to say that while the sound effects and musical interludes are unexpected, not necessary, I am enjoying them very much. I am a musician and sensitive to anything that would be too loud or vulgar or badly done. To my mind, whoever did the sounds was clever and creative with a sense of fun and drama. I love that dissonant chord that seems to say, "Oh, dear! Now what?"
Yes, this narrator has a problem with women's voices. He sounds like a man trying to speak falsetto. I have noticed that French and Japanese women still cultivate their voices. My friend Akiko sounded like little silver bells. Old recordings of Jackie Kennedy make her sound kitteny, like a kid wearing a pink angora sweater on a date! Hardly a powerful, educated woman! Griffin's women sound like that. So be it. This narrator is marvelous for the men's voices, all the accents, and the narration. He is fine by me and I will be downloading his version of "Of Human Bondage."
As for the stories, some leave me feeling better than others. All are well done. "The Outstation" has changed my life. As another reviewer put it, you notice characters similar to people you know and situations much like some you have lived with. I didn't find Warburton a snob! I admired him very much and fully understood his little routines for the preservation of sanity. As for Cooper, he is such a doofus, it costs him his life! Low class and going through life with his fists up! White socks with a dress suit and what he doesn't know probably doesn't count for much anyway! Har har! In him I saw a bit of myself, people from my hometown, George Dubbya Bush and now Trump. This story makes me want to shut up and smile and listen.
Offensive sexual stuff? Really? When? It must have been necessary to the story, and we are adults. I am finding Maugham to be whole-souled, a citizen of the world, who enjoys people and describes them wonderfully.
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- Fog
- 04-19-17
Bizarre mispronunciations...
If you could sum up The Complete Short Stories, Volume One in three words, what would they be?
Classic Maugham stories often do a slow burn but worth going for the ride.
Who was your favorite character and why?
I especially love the stories set in colonial Malaya.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
I would say this narrator is great but for some irksome mispronounciations. Every time he says ' ship's passage', he pronounces it pah-sage or 'chortle' becomes 'Kortle'. There are a hundred bizarro alternative readings of not-very-elevated english words. Bloody weird and a bit cringey. I think he's an American doing an excellent Brit accent (wonky Scots), but has not researched unfamiliar words. Shame, coz it's an epic commitment to read the full omnibus.
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- David Evan Glasser
- 05-17-19
Mixed reviews
Maugham is always a great story teller with a wonderful, evocative use of subtle language. Griffin's narration is superb and suits the atmosphere of this set of stories, set for the most part in the far east. Would have gotten five stars except for the introduction of unnecessary musical interludes, which were sufficiently annoying to consider not getting volumes 2 and 3.
David Evan Glasser
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- Eden's Grandi
- 05-30-22
A very fine read
This excellent collection of stories was very entertaining. I enjoyed them all. Sep out of modern fiction and enjoy some thought provoking beautifully written short stories.
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- Gael Hammer
- 12-08-22
Very civilized and engaging.
I’ve listened to it three times as I’ve done for the other two volumes. Can’t get enough five stars on all count’s
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- Jefferson Spires
- 06-18-18
Somerset Maugham
These stories, so well read, have given us so many wonderful afternoons! Thanks to Audible.
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- J. J. Kuzma
- 09-07-13
A masterful production of Maugham's short stories.
Charlton Griffin narrates these short stories by W. Somerset Maugham with a keen sense for each character's delivery. Griffin's love of this author shines through his Audio Connoisseur recording.
To listen to these works is to be transported to the Pacific Islands and various ports in Asia. Maugham spent much of his life in this part of the world. He found the mixture of cultures there in the early 20th Century to be fascinating, absurd, tragic and mysterious. One can never predict how the typical Westerner will react to the pressures of such strange, tropical surroundings. Maugham made much of this, but never went for the simple surprise ending in his short stories. Many of these works are quite disturbing in their portrayal of the moral weakness of Westerners when immersed in the seeming anonymity of the Tropics.
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- Miss Weezey
- 08-27-20
Acceptable....
On content there is nothing to argue with, it’s Somerset Maugham, the stories are excellent.
The narrator however frequently mispronounces standard English words (like ‘suit’ instead of ‘suite’ which completely alter the meaning of a sentence). He makes horrible attempts at accents like the awful “Scottish” accent applied to two of the characters in “Rain”. The unconvincing falsetto added to the “Scottish” woman’s lines adds another layer of absurdity that is deeply distracting.
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