- Title:
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Far Eastern Tales
- Written by:
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W. Somerset Maugham
- Read by:
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Robert Powell
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 13 minutes
- Published:
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October 28 2017
- Available Date:
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October 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489411426
- Genres:
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Fiction; Short Stories & Anthologies
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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Mesmerising short stories by a 20th century master.
Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaysia, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best – sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human judge of character and soul.
The stories included on this recording are Footprints in the Jungle; Mabel; P & O; The Door of Opportunity; The Buried Talent; Before the Party; Mr. Know-all; Neil MacAdam; The End of the Flight; and The Force of Circumstance.
'Maugham teases out buried secrets as mesmerising as the heat and as menacing as the surrounding jungle.'
The Observer
'Ideally you should listen to these stories lying in a long cane chair on the veranda of a dark bungalow sipping a gin and bitters ... Maugham transports us to a long-since-vanished and distinctly non-PC world of hard-drinking colonial planters and traders and their frosty memsahibs.'
The Guardian