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Product Description: Set in Malaya, this collection of short stories brilliantly captures the essence of colonial life. Maugham paints a keen picture of the expatriate planter, missionary, and colonial officer - and their womenfolk - as they pass their days in this remote corner of the empire.

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9780405078507 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1977, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Set in Malaya, this collection of short stories brilliantly captures the essence of colonial life.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

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9781110641390 | Bibliolife, June 15, 2009, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781110641376 | Bibliolife, June 15, 2009, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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9781406751871 | Read Books, March 30, 2007, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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9781443727761 | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2008, cover price $40.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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In a retelling of the classic Maugham tale, Abdullah, the very old servant of a merchant, recognizes Death disguised as an old woman and decides to try to put off his appointment with her by running away.

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9780671758875 | Green Tiger Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Death, disguised as an old woman, searches for Abdullah the servant

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A collection of stories featuring Ashenden--a writer drawn into the war through undercover intelligence--reflects the author's experinces in the Intelligence Department during World War I

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9781852900342 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories featuring Ashenden--a writer drawn into the war through undercover intelligence--reflects the author's experinces in the Intelligence Department during World War I
9780836940527 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1928, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Fact is a poor story-teller as Maugham reminds us.

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9780140174311 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1992), cover price $8.00

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Product Description: Fact is a poor story-teller as Maugham reminds us. Fact starts a story at random, rambles on inconsequently and tails off , leaving loose ends, without a conclusion. It works up to an interesting situation, has no sense of climax and whittles away its dramatic effects in irrelevance...read more

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9780765807793 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, May 1, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Fact is a poor story-teller as Maugham reminds us.
9780891902133, titled "Ashenden: Or the British Agent" | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1940, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: James Clinton was a clerk in the important firm of Haynes, Bryan & Co., and he held in it an important position. He was the very essence of respectability, and he earned one hundred and fifty-six pounds per annum. James Clinton believed in the Church of England and the Conservative party, in the greatness of Great Britain, in the need of more ships for the navy, and in the superiority of city men to other members of the commonweal...read more

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9781482777208 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 15, 2013, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: James Clinton was a clerk in the important firm of Haynes, Bryan & Co.

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Product Description: W. Somerset Maugham’s “Before the Party” is a novelette first published in the December 1922 edition of “Nash’s Magazine.” After the death of her husband, an alcoholic colonial administrator in Borneo, Millicent returns to England to live with her parents and sister...read more

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9781497372900 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 18, 2014, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: W.

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Product Description: The Performing Rights of this play are fully protected, and permission to perform it, whether by Amateurs or Professionals, must be obtained in advance from the author's Sole Agent, R. Golding Bright, 20, Green Street, Leicester Square, London, W...read more

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9781511766166 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 21, 2015, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The Performing Rights of this play are fully protected, and permission to perform it, whether by Amateurs or Professionals, must be obtained in advance from the author's Sole Agent, R.
9781494351120 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 4, 2013, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The Performing Rights of this play are fully protected, and permission to perform it, whether by Amateurs or Professionals, must be obtained in advance from the author's Sole Agent, R.
9780548731796 | Kessinger Pub Co, November 3, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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The bitter, witty novel about the business of writing and London literary society between the two World Wars focuses on the lives of a famous writer and his two contrasting wives. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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9780375725029 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The bitter, witty novel about the business of writing and London literary society between the two World Wars focuses on the lives of a famous writer and his two contrasting wives.
9780140185881 | Reissue edition (Viking Pr, June 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The bitter, witty novel about the business of writing focuses on the lives of a famous writer and his two contrasting wives

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Product Description: 1930. Maugham, English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright is best remembered for his novel Of Human Bondage. Cakes and Ale is a comedy of literary England in the early decades of the 20th century narrated by Ashenden. Many consider this to be Maugham's wittiest novel...read more

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9781417943739 | Kessinger Pub Co, August 31, 2004, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: 1930.

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Product Description: 1926. Maugham, English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright is best remembered for his novel Of Human Bondage. The Casuarina Tree contains six stories by Maugham including: Before the Party; P. and O.; The Outstation; The Force of Circumstance; The Yellow Streak; and The Letter...read more

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9781417941681 | Kessinger Pub Co, August 31, 2004, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: 1926.

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When a sixteen-year-old Spanish girl sees a religious vision while praying in a convent, she becomes involved in a series of humorous adventures

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9780330254991 | Academy Chicago Pub, February 1, 1983, cover price $4.95 | also contains Eyelid Tumors: Clinical Evaluation and Reconstruction Techniques | About this edition: When a sixteen-year-old Spanish girl sees a religious vision while praying in a convent, she becomes involved in a series of humorous adventures

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Product Description: CATALINA by W. Somerset Maugham, First Edition BOOK CLUB Edition, With Somerset Maugham's picture on the rear cover of the dust jacket in black and white.

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9780405078088 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1977, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: CATALINA by W.

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Product Description: Often enough the lover of cities tires of their unceasing noise; the din of the traffic buzzes perpetually in his ears, and even in the silences of night he hears the footfalls on the pavement, the dull stamping of horses, the screeching of wheels; the fog chokes up the lungs so that he cannot breathe; he sees no longer any charms in the tall chimneys of the factory and the heavy smoke winding in curves against the leaden sky; then he flies to countries where the greenness is like cold spring water, where he can hear the budding of the trees and the stars tell him fantastic things, the silence is full of mysterious new emotions...read more

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9781482765311 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 13, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Often enough the lover of cities tires of their unceasing noise; the din of the traffic buzzes perpetually in his ears, and even in the silences of night he hears the footfalls on the pavement, the dull stamping of horses, the screeching of wheels; the fog chokes up the lungs so that he cannot breathe; he sees no longer any charms in the tall chimneys of the factory and the heavy smoke winding in curves against the leaden sky; then he flies to countries where the greenness is like cold spring water, where he can hear the budding of the trees and the stars tell him fantastic things, the silence is full of mysterious new emotions.

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During an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris, a Christmas present from his father, Charley Mason encounters Lydia, a woman who will change his life forever, a tragic, self-destructive creature left homeless, fatherless, and displaced by the Russian Revolution, who pines for her distant criminal lover, in a classic novel about the aftermath of World War I. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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9780434456116 | Gardners Books, October 31, 1989, cover price $24.60 | About this edition: For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid.
9780405078095 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1976, cover price $23.95 | also contains The Content of Psychological Distress: Addressing Complex Personal Experience | About this edition: For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid.

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9780375724619 | Vintage Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: During an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris, a Christmas present from his father, Charley Mason encounters Lydia, a woman who will change his life forever, a tragic, self-destructive creature left homeless, fatherless, and displaced by the Russian Revolution, who pines for her distant criminal lover, in a classic novel about the aftermath of World War I.

Product Description: A tragic-comedy as history repeats itself in marital breakups. (One 90 and one 60)

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556855436 | Unabridged edition (Audio Book Contractors, January 30, 1999), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A tragic-comedy as history repeats itself in marital breakups.

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Product Description: The Scene is a stately drawing-room at Aston-Adey, with fine pictures on the walls and Georgian furniture. Aston-Adey has been described, with many illustrations, in Country Life. It is not a house, but a place. Its owner takes a great pride in it, and there is nothing in the room which is not of the period...read more

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9781515275619 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 1, 2015, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The Scene is a stately drawing-room at Aston-Adey, with fine pictures on the walls and Georgian furniture.
9781494351083 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 4, 2013, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1921.
9781444621655 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $26.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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