From the cafe society of Paris to the British colony of Hong Kong to the lush tropical island of Tahiti, you can travel half the world in this first-time-ever collection of three of the novels that indelibly established the popular literary reputation of W. Somerset Maugham in England and America. With him, too, you can explore that perilous territory of the human heart when the In the instant bestseller The Moon and Sixpence, the novel Maugham famously based on the life of Paul Gauguin, love and art prove to be as incompatible as Europe and Tahiti, when the painter Charles Strickland (played brilliantly in the screen version by his friends, and the life of his mistress on the altar of his own genius. No less exotic than Tahiti is the cholera-ridden Hong Kong in The Painted Veil, which takes the adulterous Kitty Fans on a personal descent into hell in a steamy tale of passion hailed by Bookman as "one of the great short novels of our time." And in The Magician, a satanist takes dark and sinister revenge on the young woman who spurns him.
Included in this volume, too, are five timeless short stories-inciuding "The Letter", which was made into a movie starring a memorablv murderous Bette Davis, and "Rain", the sultry tale of Crawford.
- ISBN10 0786708131
- ISBN13 9780786708130
- Publish Date 30 November 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
- Edition Carroll & Graf ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 735
- Language English