(If you require a British narrator, try "Rain and other Stories," another good collection of Somerset Maugham stories, narrated by Steven Crossley). Even if his pronunciations are sometimes eccentric, I really do enjoy him and the way he adds sound effects and music to his productions. M Orientations (1899) M The Trembling of a Leaf (1921) M Ashenden (1928) M Ah King (1933) M Cosmopolitans (1936) M The Favorite Short Stories of W. All of the stories reflect the author's gift for meticulous observation, and just as often, his thinly-veiled contempt for his fellow humans! I was never under the impression that Charlton Griffin was British, so that wasn't an issue for me. Click the book covers to download/borrow/read. Know-All" and "The Three Fat Women of Antibes" are laugh-out-loud funny and satirical. "The Outstation" is the strongest story, I think, because of the way the author develops the contrast between the two dynamic main characters without turning them into caricatures. His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. Each was excellent, but this collection was my favorite. William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. I just finished all three volumes of the Somerset Maugham short stories from Audio Connoisseur.
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