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W. Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Bruno Frank's Stories
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Bruno, Frank. The Magician and Other Stories. Introduction by W. Somerset Maugham, The Viking Press, 1946.This post is about an introduction W. Somerset Maugham wrote for a posthumous collection of short stories by Bruno Frank, which has not been registered in published bibliography or collected in other publications of our writer, or at least as far as I know. This piece of writing isn't mentioned in Stott, or collected in John Whitehead&#…
The Maugham Reader (1950) – The Villa Mauresque Edition
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The Maugham Reader with an Introduction by Glenway Wescott (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950)This is a recent acquisition, which I never would have thought of buying. It is a collection of W. Somerset Maugham's works, an assortment of novels, short stories, plays, and non-fiction pieces. Certainly it would make nice reading, and it would have worked quite well for a long train trip in the old days. Heavy but not too …