Far Eastern Tales
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781409075585
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
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 - not that Maugham's writing needs any further atmospheric embellishment. Like Kipling and Conrad, Maugham transports us to a long-since-vanished and distinctly non-PC world of hard-drinking colonial planters and traders and their frosty memsahibs
Guardian
If all else perish, there will remain a storyteller's world...that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of verandah and prahu which we enter as well as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, and with a happy and eternal homecoming
The Times
Maugham teases out buried secrets as mesmerising as the heat and as menacing as the surrounding jungle
Observer