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Somerset maugham 18471965 rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a pacific island prostitute named sadie thompson. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading rain kindle single a vintage short. He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson. Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for the southern cross. Because of a severe stammer, maugham was unable to follow in his fathers and grandfathers footsteps as an attorney. William somerset maugham was an english playwright, novelist and short story writer. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project. Instead, he turned to a medical career, studying at st. About rain a vintage shorts short story month selection while stranded waiting for their ship to be released from quarantine, dr. Somerset william somerset sorted by popularity project gutenberg offers 59,920 free ebooks to download. The first of the stories in this collection, rain, was written in 1920 in hong kong. Short stories originally collected and published under the title the trembling of a leaf and other south sea stories.

Introduction by an excerpt from wikipedia first page. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Somerset maugham 18741965 rain 1921 it was nearly bed. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Working in the slums of lambeth as an obstetric clerk, maughams experiences led him to write liza of lambeth 1897. A few are in a book that has long remained out of print, a few others are scattered.

Commercial success with high book sales, successful theatre productions and a string of film adaptations, backed by astute stock market investments, allowed maugham to live a very comfortable life. Somerset maugham was a british playwright, novelist and short story writer. Somerset maugham ebooks in pdf format from ebookslibrary. Free audio book that you can download in mp3, ipod and itunes format for your portable audio player. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to heal than it should, he was glad. Rain kindle single a vintage short kindle edition by maugham, w. Project gutenberg offers 61845 free ebooks for kindle, ipad, nook, android, and iphone.

Born in the british embassy in paris, where his father worked, maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. If you scroll up a bit and click the third button under other maugham eresources that says nonfiction with my logo on it, you will go to the ebook page of nonfiction, including travel books and essays. Rain kindle single a vintage short kindle edition by. Librivox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net for free. The book was so popular that it convinced him to give up medicine for a writing career. Somerset maugham 18741965 rain 1921 it was nearly bedtime and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight.