false 6794 31548 0451530179 9780451530172 428 <![CDATA[Of Human Bondage]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168279630m/31548.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31548.Of_Human_Bondage 4.03 4407 6794 3.97 18768 2284 31196 1400034205 9781400034208 488 <![CDATA[The Razor's Edge]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168270439m/31196.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31196.The_Razor_s_Edge 4.15 4239 6794 3.97 18768 2284 31196 1400034205 9781400034208 488 <![CDATA[The Razor's Edge]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168270439m/31196.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31196.The_Razor_s_Edge 4.15 4239 6794 3.97 18768 2284 99664 0307277771 9780307277770 609 <![CDATA[The Painted Veil]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171451268m/99664.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99664.The_Painted_Veil 3.75 3231 The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.

The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 44796 1598185217 9781598185218 71 <![CDATA[Moon And Sixpence]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170269741m/44796.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44796.Moon_And_Sixpence 3.97 928 6794 3.97 18768 2284 191793 0375725024 9780375725029 47 <![CDATA[Cakes and Ale]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172573834m/191793.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191793.Cakes_and_Ale 3.73 559 Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image.  Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 59551 0099478323 9780099478324 36 <![CDATA[Up at the Villa]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170532000m/59551.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59551.Up_at_the_Villa 3.65 352 6794 3.97 18768 2284 31324 1400042534 9781400042531 16 <![CDATA[Collected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168274656m/31324.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31324.Collected_Stories 4.29 277
From one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories.

Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached the pinnacle of his art. These expertly told tales, with their addictive plot twists and vividly drawn characters, are both galvanizing as literature and wonderfully entertaining. In the adventures of his alter ego Ashenden, a writer who (like Maugham himself) turned secret agent in World War I, as well as in stories set in such far-flung locales as South Pacific islands and colonial outposts in Southeast Asia, Maugham brings his characters vividly to life, and their humanity is more convincing for the author’s merciless exposure of their flaws and failures.

Whether the chasms of misunderstanding he plumbs are those between colonizers and natives, between a missionary and a prostitute, or between a poetry-writing woman and her uncomprehending husband, Maugham brilliantly displays his irony, his wit, and his genius in the art of storytelling.]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 31326 037572463X 9780375724633 17 <![CDATA[Theatre]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168274657m/31326.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31326.Theatre 3.97 220 Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting.

It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until a quiet stranger who challenges Julia's very sense of self. As a result, she will endure rejection for the first time, her capacity as a mother will be affronted, and her ability to put on whatever face she desired for her public will prove limited. In Theatre, Maugham subtly exposes the tensions and triumphs that occur when acting and reality blend together, and–for Julia–ultimately reverse.]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 150555 0143104896 9780143104896 27 <![CDATA[The Magician]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172216392m/150555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150555.The_Magician 3.54 209 The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham's most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siècle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves — until the sinister and repulsive Oliver Haddo appears.]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 150549 0140185895 9780140185898 8 <![CDATA[Maugham: Collected Short Stories: Volume 1]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172216374m/150549.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150549.Maugham_Collected_Short_Stories_Volume_1 4.20 117 6794 3.97 18768 2284 398925 014018600X 9780140186000 7 <![CDATA[The Summing Up (Penguin 20th Century Classic)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174432469m/398925.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398925.The_Summing_Up 3.95 118 6794 3.97 18768 2284 887797 0099289709 9780099289708 11 <![CDATA[Ashenden, or The British Agent]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179194498m/887797.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/887797.Ashenden_or_The_British_Agent 3.63 109 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.


]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 397539 0375724613 9780375724619 13 <![CDATA[Christmas Holiday]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174424384m/397539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397539.Christmas_Holiday 3.73 95
For Lydia has seen tragedy. The Russian Revolution displaced her family, left her homeless, fatherless. And for reasons that elude Charley, Lydia pines for a man half a world away--a dope dealer and murderer whose sins Lydia seeks to absolve through her own self- destruction. Haunting, erotic, deeply effecting, Christmas Holiday explores two souls capsized by compassion--and the confusion that engulfed a generation in the days between the Great Wars.]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 99661 0486445623 9780486445625 6 <![CDATA[Rain and Other South Sea Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171451247m/99661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99661.Rain_and_Other_South_Sea_Stories 4.16 94 The Razor's Edge; "The Pool," and other compelling stories of life in the tropics. </div>]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 90312 0140018727 9780140018721 2 <![CDATA[The Collected Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Vol. 2]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90312.The_Collected_Short_Stories_of_W_Somerset_Maugham_Vol_2 4.37 59 6794 3.97 18768 2284 90311 0140185917 9780140185911 5 <![CDATA[Collected Short Stories: Volume 3]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171189677m/90311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90311.Collected_Short_Stories_Volume_3 4.31 84 6794 3.97 18768 2284 398936 0140185933 9780140185935 12 <![CDATA[Liza of Lambeth]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174432507m/398936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398936.Liza_of_Lambeth 3.37 99 Liza has been bred to it and externally can cope. But the heart is the problem: it craves love and affection.

"A fine book...shows all the promise of the author's later stories." (Editorial Reviews)

]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 879162 0140185941 9780140185942 8 <![CDATA[Mrs Craddock]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179130280m/879162.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/879162.Mrs_Craddock 3.69 64 Bertha Ley is mistress of Court Ley, a great spread of land. She marries Edward Craddock, a man beneath her station, but quite the essence of new order. A gentleman farmer, he is steady and a doer who turns Court Ley into an efficient farm. But Bertha wants passion and ardor: she gets reality.

"Bertha's tragedy is in her expectations--life would be so simple without them. Her assaults on the amiable Craddock are as rational as beating a flounder for not flying." (Literary Observer)

]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 108958 0140185925 9780140185928 3 <![CDATA[Collected Short Stories, Vol. 4]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171593999m/108958.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108958.Collected_Short_Stories_Vol_4 4.33 54 6794 3.97 18768 2284 805597 0140185984 9780140185980 7 <![CDATA[The Narrow Corner]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178556686m/805597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/805597.The_Narrow_Corner 3.83 63 The story contains humor and wit, exact and incisive observation of character and an ironical philosophy that mark this tale as another Maugham classic.

]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 99662 0405078080 9780405078088 3 <![CDATA[Catalina: A Romance]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188324984m/99662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99662.Catalina_A_Romance 3.26 50 6794 3.97 18768 2284 565359 0099282844 9780099282846 3 <![CDATA[Far Eastern Tales]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175838214m/565359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/565359.Far_Eastern_Tales 3.87 38 6794 3.97 18768 2284 120581 0405078226 9780405078224 2 <![CDATA[Then and Now]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120581.Then_and_Now 3.36 25 6794 3.97 18768 2284 90309 1929516231 9781929516230 1 <![CDATA[The Trembling of a Leaf]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171189675m/90309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90309.The_Trembling_of_a_Leaf 3.88 24 6794 3.97 18768 2284 758496 0405078323 9780405078323 2 <![CDATA[A Writer's Notebook]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/758496.A_Writer_s_Notebook 4.00 19 6794 3.97 18768 2284 301374 1557782164 9781557782168 2 <![CDATA[The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong (Armchair Traveller Series)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301374.The_Gentleman_in_the_Parlour_A_Record_of_a_Journey_from_Rangoon_to_Haiphong 3.57 14 6794 3.97 18768 2284 746964 0140185968 9780140185966 1 <![CDATA[The Merry-Go-Round]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177976073m/746964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/746964.The_Merry_Go_Round 3.55 22 He was trained as a doctor, and he must have been good: his observations are truthful and free of sentiment. His books are a tonic.

The "merry-go-round" was his term for London at the turn of the century. His narrator, Miss Ley, is a shrewd and amusing elderly spinster, something like Maugham in drag. A born commentator, she acts like a Greek chorus. The world may be mad, she seems to say, but it is amusing.

]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 1077364 3150091837 9783150091838 1 <![CDATA[The Letter.]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180793269m/1077364.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1077364.The_Letter_ 3.72 18 6794 3.97 18768 2284 887834 0749304243 9780749304249 2 <![CDATA[On a Chinese Screen]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179194567m/887834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/887834.On_a_Chinese_Screen 3.91 11 Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, army officers and company managers are all gently ridiculed as they persist obliviously with the life they know.

]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 194453 0573010773 9780573010774 1 <![CDATA[Constant Wife]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194453.Constant_Wife 4.21 14 6794 3.97 18768 2284 497636 0804615071 9780804615075 2 <![CDATA[Great novelists and their novels;: Essays on the ten greatest novels of the world, and the men and women who wrote them]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497636.Great_novelists_and_their_novels_Essays_on_the_ten_greatest_novels_of_the_world_and_the_men_and_women_who_wrote_them 4.45 11 6794 3.97 18768 2284 327476 0405078250 9780405078255 0 <![CDATA[The Art of Fiction: An Introduction to Ten Novels and Their Authors]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/327476.The_Art_of_Fiction_An_Introduction_to_Ten_Novels_and_Their_Authors 3.91 11 6794 3.97 18768 2284 5985254 0 <![CDATA[Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage, & The Moon and Sixpence]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5985254.Somerset_Maugham_Of_Human_Bondage_The_Moon_and_Sixpence 4.27 11 6794 3.97 18768 2284 10350 0405078129 9780405078125 1 <![CDATA[The Hour Before the Dawn: A Novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10350.The_Hour_Before_the_Dawn_A_Novel 3.58 12 6794 3.97 18768 2284 31325 0394600142 9780394600147 1 <![CDATA[The Best Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31325.The_Best_Short_Stories_of_William_Somerset_Maugham 4.10 10 6794 3.97 18768 2284 887838 0749306890 9780749306892 3 <![CDATA[The Casuarina Tree]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179194622m/887838.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/887838.The_Casuarina_Tree 4.57 7 6794 3.97 18768 2284 1390202 2 <![CDATA[درباره رمان و داستان کوتاه]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1390202._ 3.45 11 6794 3.97 18768 2284 191791 0786708131 9780786708130 0 <![CDATA[The Great Exotic Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172573833m/191791.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191791.The_Great_Exotic_Novels_and_Short_Stories_of_Somerset_Maugham 4.25 8 6794 3.97 18768 2284 99663 0573010714 9780573010712 0 <![CDATA[The Circle]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231002920m/99663.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99663.The_Circle 3.30 10 6794 3.97 18768 2284 3212619 0141442158 9780141442150 1 <![CDATA[The Penguin Book of First World War Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3212619.The_Penguin_Book_of_First_World_War_Stories 3.62 8
This new collection of short stories about World War I features works by such famous British authors as Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Graves, Muriel Spark, and Julian Barnes. Written during the war and after, these stories illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture, as well as the many ways in which short fiction contributed to the literature of that time period.]]> 527032 3.62 8 1 2965342 3.62 8 1 6989 3.88 15417 1179 6331 3.77 20311 1679 45712 4.11 1142 120 2965355 3.56 9 1 33546 4.02 600 55 2099139 3.73 15 1 94230 3.88 80 9 1282034 3.60 10 2 3345 3.46 41496 2707 2965358 3.62 8 1 2448 4.06 40449 2645 6794 3.97 18768 2284 185002 3.67 12 1 7419 4.09 1348 163 17623 3.57 20471 1559 74248 3.53 765 117 406950 4.29 107 15 154022 3.35 23 2 67319 3.91 53 8 3012988 4.17 6791 682 13093 3.67 4474 574 2965361 3.62 8 1 1462 3.62 6919 903 4755063 2 <![CDATA[ماه و شش پشیز]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4755063._ 4.33 6 6794 3.97 18768 2284 191788 0405078501 9780405078507 1 <![CDATA[Ah King]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1249432323m/191788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191788.Ah_King 4.33 6 6794 3.97 18768 2284 191784 1598186663 9781598186666 1 <![CDATA[The Explorer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172573827m/191784.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191784.The_Explorer 4.20 5 But the silent woman did not look for solace. She had a vehement pride which caused her to seek comfort only in her own heart; and when, against her will, heavy tears rolled down her cheeks, she shook her head impatiently.

]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 674069 1 <![CDATA[The Maugham Reader]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/674069.The_Maugham_Reader 4.20 5 6794 3.97 18768 2284 6618063 0 <![CDATA[The Moon and Sixpence]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6618063-the-moon-and-sixpence 4.20 5
Chapter I
I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions. The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. The greatness of Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest. He disturbs and arrests. The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him. His faults are accepted as the necessary complement to his merits. It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice. The artist, painter, poet, or musician, by his decoration, sublime or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetic sense; but that is akin to the sexual instinct, and shares its barbarity: he lays before you also the greater gift of himself. To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story. It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 364007 0405078315 9780405078316 0 <![CDATA[Vagrant Mood]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364007.Vagrant_Mood 4.20 5 The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.]]> 6794 3.97 18768 2284 887746 0099289601 9780099289609 0 <![CDATA[More Far Eastern Tales]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179194429m/887746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/887746.More_Far_Eastern_Tales 4.20 5 6794 3.97 18768 2284 954524 0435295713 9780435295714 0 <![CDATA[The kite, and other stories;]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954524.The_kite_and_other_stories_ 3.33 6 6794 3.97 18768 2284 4511928 2 <![CDATA[East and West]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4511928.East_and_West 4.75 4 6794 3.97 18768 2284 160438 090571234X 9780905712345 1 <![CDATA[Cakes and Ale,the Painted Veil,Liza of Lambeth,Razor's Edge,Theatre,Moon and Sixpence]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160438.Cakes_and_Ale_the_Painted_Veil_Liza_of_Lambeth_Razor_s_Edge_Theatre_Moon_and_Sixpence 4.75 4 6794 3.97 18768 2284 364006 0405078528 9780405078521 1 <![CDATA[Cosmopolitans]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364006.Cosmopolitans 4.50 4 6794 3.97 18768 2284 1155506 0719045983 9780719045981 0 <![CDATA[Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181454096m/1155506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1155506.Women_Men_and_the_Great_War_An_Anthology_of_Stories 4.25 4 </div>]]> 404339 4.00 8 2 2965362 4.25 4 0 3535 3.86 57173 4342 179957 3.88 26 3 67319 3.91 53 8 45712 4.11 1142 120 9325 3.83 4227 411 94230 3.88 80 9 26807 4.23 966 60 90 3.52 205 17 1455 3.73 152207 9307 74248 3.53 765 117 2965364 4.25 4 0 17623 3.57 20471 1559 6765 3.85 49519 3703 149791 4.12 180 24 16 3.68 39616 3568 2380330 3.62 48 10 3345 3.46 41496 2707 88930 4.07 9391 929 33546 4.02 600 55 6989 3.88 15417 1179 1209 3.77 1666 220 6794 3.97 18768 2284 197935 3.69 72 14 2099139 3.73 15 1 954516 0613906144 9780613906142 0 <![CDATA[Field of Screams (Ghosts of Fear Street, #22)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954516.Field_of_Screams 0.0 0 13730 3.50 68396 3357 6794 3.97 18768 2284 6093967 5551704386 9785551704386 0 <![CDATA[Mystery in the Mainstream: An Anthology of Literary Crimes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240703656m/6093967.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6093967.Mystery_in_the_Mainstream_An_Anthology_of_Literary_Crimes 4.00 2 A pair of gloves by Charles Dickens
The biter bit by Wilkie Collins
God sees the truth but waits by Leo N. Tolstoy
A watcher by the dead by Ambrose Bierce
Mr. Brisher's treasure by H.G. Wells
The return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling
The bet by Anton Chekhov
Bewitched by Edith Wharton
Before the party by W. Somerset Maugham
The neighbors by John Galsworthy
Without the option by P.G. Wodehouse
The gioconda smile by Aldous Huxley
Cigarette girl by James M. Cain
It takes a thief by Arthur Miller
Murder on the waterfront by Budd Schulberg
How Mr. Hogan robbed a bank by John Steinbeck
My son the murderer by Bernard Malamud
Sentimental journey by Joyce Carol Oates
The interview by Evan Hunter
The killer by Norman Mailer]]> 22880 3.57 1024 187 76288 3.62 500 63 26064 3.56 4912 592 585 3.82 351263 17131 447 3.78 3412 368 4012 3.94 10552 1770 85 4.01 56930 6735 14403 4.18 3018 326 7421 4.01 11785 816 3524 3.53 37123 4594 880695 3.62 33739 2114 96380 3.70 433 45 16 3.68 39616 3568 6794 3.97 18768 2284 7927 3.68 8217 1076 6989 3.88 15417 1179 7419 4.09 1348 163 7963 4.21 28316 2668 3487 3.87 128658 4434 14473 3.88 2959 335 8120 3.52 45841 1811 7799 3.33 68529 3251 8468 3.97 294 48 239579 3.74 208077 10922 1796298 1899562621 9781899562626 0 <![CDATA[The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1998]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1796298.The_Ash_Tree_Press_Annual_Macabre_1998 3.50 2 In this, the second Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre, the focus is on half a dozen authors whose names are not inevitably associated with the tale of the supernatural. Yet all six—W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Ransome, Ford Madox Ford, E.C.Bentley, Hilaire Belloc, and John Buchan—are undisputed masters of the narrative form, and here—in 'Told in the Inn at Algeciras', 'Post-Mortem', 'The Medium's End', 'Exactly As It Happened', 'The Unpleasant Room', and 'Ho! The Merry Masons' respectively—bring a new vitality to an old medium, and prove that literary renown is no obstacle to telling a gripping and chilling story.

These six tales, assembled and introduced by Jack Adrian, have remained out of print since their initial publication as many as ninety years ago—both the Maugham and the Buchan qualify as 'lost' stories, since neither appears in their respective author's bibliographies. Elegantly told by some of the finest writers of the century, the tales in Annual Macabre 1998 make perfect reading for dark winter nights.

Contents: Introduction by Jack Adrian; 'Told in the Inn at Algeciras' by W. Somerset Maugham; 'Post-Mortem' by Arthur Ransome'; 'The Medium's End' by Ford Madox Ford; 'Exactly As It Happened' by E.C.Bentley; 'The Unpleasant Room' by Hilaire Belloc; 'Ho! The Merry Masons' by John Buchan.

Jacket art is by Rob Suggs. Limited to 500 copies.]]> 229770 3.68 73 12 4025 4.20 1075 132 3073 3.68 1582 222 41392 3.65 49 8 6794 3.97 18768 2284 72120 4.08 2075 193 1209 3.77 1666 220 2488102 3.50 2 0 6604822 0 <![CDATA[Great Short Stories of the War: England, France, Germany, America]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6604822-great-short-stories-of-the-war 3.50 2 Gerhard von Gottberg
C.E. Montague
Georges Duhamel
Fritz von Unruh
Warre B. Wells (Translator)
Ernest Hemingway
Laurence Stallings
Ared White
Gerald Bullett
Georg Grabenhorst
Leo V. Jacks
H. Taprell Dorling ("Traffrail"[pseud])
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Preface by E. F. Kingston
The Roads We Take by O. Henry
The Raging of the Sea by Norman Duncan
The Cherry Tree by A. E. Coppard
In the Matter of a Schooner by Alan Sullivan
Don’t Sell the Farm by Fr. Marie-Victorin (translated by E. F. Kingston)
The Tarn by Sir Hugh Walpole
The Son by L. A. Pavey
The Bread House by Mary Webb
The Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield
Peasants by Frank O’Connor
The Lumber Room by Saki (H. H. Munro)
The Musgrave Ritual by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Outstation by Somerset Maugham
The Adventure of the Kind Mr. Smith by W. J. Locke
After-Glow by Constance Holme
Moses and Mr. Aiken by Edward Thompson
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