Collected Short Stories Volume one W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University.

This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story ‘Rain’, the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and ‘The Three Fat Women of Antibes,’ an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and greed, as well as a host of other brilliant tales.