- ISBN: 9780710096401 | 0710096402
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/1/1987
General Editor's Preface | p. v |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Note on the Selection and Its Arrangement | p. 19 |
Liza of Lambeth | p. 21 |
Unsigned Review, Academy | p. 23 |
The Making of a Saint | p. 26 |
Unsigned Review, Academy | p. 27 |
Orientations | p. 29 |
Unsigned Review, Academy | p. 30 |
Mrs Craddock | p. 32 |
The Merry-Go-Round | p. 37 |
Unsigned Review, Athenaeum | p. 38 |
The Land of the Blessed Virgin | p. 39 |
[virginia Woolf], Unsigned Review, 'Journeys in Spain', Times Literary Supplement | p. 41 |
The Bishop's Apron | p. 42 |
The Magician | p. 44 |
Unsigned Review, 'A Feast of Horrors', New York Times | p. 57 |
A Man of Honour | p. 59 |
Max Beerbohm, 'An Uncommercial Play', Saturday Review (london) | p. 63 |
Lady Frederick | p. 68 |
Jack Straw | p. 73 |
Max Beerbohm, Review, Saturday Review (london) | p. 76 |
Mrs Dot | p. 79 |
Review, Sunday Times | p. 80 |
The Explorer | p. 83 |
'how Dare He?' Saturday Review (london) | p. 86 |
Penelope | p. 90 |
Smith | p. 97 |
Unsigned Review, Athenaeum | p. 101 |
The Tenth Man | p. 103 |
Grace (landed Gentry) | p. 105 |
Loaves and Fishes | p. 108 |
Review, Punch | p. 111 |
The Land of Promise | p. 113 |
'Pygmalion (at Home and Abroad)', English Review | p. 118 |
Of Human Bondage | p. 123 |
Review, New Statesman | p. 126 |
Unsigned Review, Athenaeum | p. 129 |
'After Ten Years of Of Human Bondage', New York Times | p. 135 |
The Moon and Sixpence | p. 139 |
'in Vishnu-Land What Avatar?' Dial | p. 144 |
The Trembling of a Leaf | p. 148 |
Unsigned Review, Saturday Review (london) | p. 151 |
On a Chinese Screen | p. 155 |
The Painted Veil | p. 160 |
Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement | p. 167 |
The Casuarina Tree | p. 168 |
Review, Nation and Athenaeum | p. 170 |
'In the Shadow of the Casuarina Tree', New York Evening Post | p. 171 |
Ashenden | p. 175 |
'Four Contemporary Books', Vogue | p. 176 |
Unsigned Review, 'Mr Maugham's Latest', New York Times | p. 178 |
The Gentleman in the Parlour | p. 180 |
'Rare Traveler', New York Herald Tribune | p. 182 |
'Travelling with Composure', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 183 |
Cakes and Ale | p. 185 |
'The Books You Read', Graphic | p. 187 |
Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular | p. 192 |
The Narrow Corner | p. 198 |
'A Cynical, Gifted Story Teller', New York Herald Tribune | p. 201 |
Ah King | p. 203 |
Caroline (the Unattainable) | p. 207 |
Our Betters | p. 210 |
Review, New Statesman | p. 213 |
Caesar's Wife | p. 219 |
Review, Weekly Review (new York) | p. 221 |
Home and Beauty (too Many Husbands) | p. 222 |
The Unknown | p. 227 |
Review, Nation (london) | p. 230 |
The Circle | p. 233 |
Review, London Mercury | p. 236 |
East of Suez | p. 238 |
Review, New Statesman | p. 242 |
The Constant Wife | p. 245 |
The Letter | p. 250 |
'Here Are Tigers', Saturday Review (london) | p. 252 |
The Sacred Flame | p. 255 |
'Three Leading Ladies', Illustrated London News | p. 257 |
The Breadwinner | p. 259 |
'A Letter from England', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 264 |
For Services Rendered | p. 268 |
'Two Gifted Pessimists', Illustrated London News | p. 270 |
Sheppey | p. 273 |
'Somerset Maugham's New Play', Illustrated London News | p. 277 |
'Re-Reading Mr Maugham', New Statesman and Nation | p. 283 |
'Maugham's Short Stories', Spectator | p. 287 |
Don Fernando | p. 290 |
Cosmopolitans | p. 301 |
Theatre | p. 305 |
'A Straight Novel', New Statesman and Nation | p. 307 |
The Summing Up | p. 311 |
'Maugham's Pattern', Spectator | p. 316 |
'A Self-Taught Trade', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 318 |
Christmas Holiday | p. 328 |
'Five-Day Adventure', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 331 |
Books and You | p. 333 |
The Mixture as Before | p. 336 |
'Midsummer Nights' Fare', New York Herald Tribune | p. 341 |
Up at the Villa | p. 343 |
The Hour Before the Dawn | p. 348 |
the Art of Somerset Maugham', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 349 |
The Razor's Edge | p. 352 |
Review, Nation (new York) | p. 355 |
Review, Spectator | p. 356 |
the Art of Being Good', New Statesman and Nation | p. 358 |
Then and Now | p. 362 |
'Somerset Maugham and an Antidote', New Yorker | p. 364 |
Creatures of Circumstance | p. 370 |
'Mr Maugham, Still Urbane', New York Times | p. 371 |
Catalina | p. 374 |
Review, New York Times | p. 375 |
A Writer's Notebook | p. 385 |
Review, New Statesman and Nation | p. 389 |
The Vagrant Mood | p. 404 |
the Maugham Seesaw', New York Times | p. 408 |
Points of View | p. 411 |
'Mr Maugham's Valedictory', New York Herald Tribune | p. 413 |
General Studies | p. 415 |
on the Modern Short Story | p. 421 |
Unsigned Leading Article, 'Maugham at 80', New York Times | p. 434 |
on the Eastern Stories | p. 444 |
'Summing Up Somerset Maugham at 90', New York Times | p. 446 |
Select Bibliography | p. 455 |
Index | p. 457 |
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