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I have included some publication history for Individual Short Stories in the second section; the information is taken from Raymond Toole Stott's A Bibliography of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham (1973), except when indicated otherwise. I am putting only the first and/or second appearances in magazines and first inclusion in collections, as this is not intended to be a bibliography.
If you are looking for a particular story, due to the large number of stories that Maugham published, the easiest way is to do a search on this page (ctrl+f) and locate in which collections the story is included. I will be including links to individual stories online at MMCCL when they are ready.
If you are interested in comments or the first editions of Maugham's work, you will find relevant posts on the left hand menu organized by subjects.
Short Story Collections by W. Somerset Maugham
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Orientations (1899)
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The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)
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Ashenden (1928)
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Ah King (1933)
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Cosmopolitans (1936)
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The Favorite Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (1937)
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Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
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The Maugham Reader (1950)
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The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (1951)
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The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham. The World Over (1952)
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Mr. Maugham Himself (1954)
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Seventeen Lost Stories (1969)
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Collected Short Stories, 4 vols. (1963)
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Sixty-Five Short Stories (1976)
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Far Eastern Tales (1993)
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Princess September and the Nightingale (1998)
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Individual Short Stories
The followings are individual short stories. I find it convenient to have them listed in chronological order. A brief publication history of each of them is provided, but it is by no means complete, as this is not intended to be a bibliography but simply a list for providing a quick look at the original publication date of the stories. The information is taken from Stott except when indicated. Link to the individual short story will be provided gradually in this section while building My Maugham Collection Concordance Library (MMCCL).
1898
- "The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian"
- Orientations (1899)
- Cosmopolis October as "Don Sebastian"
1899
- "A Bad Example"
- Orientations (1899)
- "De Amicitia"
- Orientations
- "Faith"
- Orientations
- "The Choice of Amyntas"
- Orientations
- "Daisy"
- Orientations
1900
- "Cupid and the Vicar of Swale"
- Punch 7 February
- Seventeen Lost Stories (1969)
- "Lady Habart"
- Punch 25 April; 2, 9 May
- Seventeen Lost Stories
1901
- "A Really Nice Story"
- Black and White November
- the history of this story is more complicated. The link is to a reprint published in Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7464, 24 May 1902, Page 2, not mentioned in Stott or collected in other editions. It was noted first by Holden, Philip. "An Undocumented Short Story by W. Somerset Maugham." Notes and Queries 58.4 (2011): 590-91. However, later it came out that this story was published a year before in Black & White, November 30 1901, pp.768-769 of Vol.XXII, (pp.14-15 of No.505), as found by Johndoeqwe at Wikipedia in 2012.
- "The Image of the Virgin"
- Black and White December
1903
- "Pro Patria"
- Pall Mall February
- Seventeen Lost Stories (1969)
- "A Point of Law"
- Strand Magazine November
- Seventeen Lost Stories (1969)
1904
- "The Criminal"
- Lloyd's Weekly News, July 31 1904, p.14; free text link is to a later reprint in West Gippsland Gazette, noted by Johndoeqwe at Wikipedia in 2012
- "An Irish Gentleman"
- Strand Magazine September
- Seventeen Lost Stories
1906
- "Flirtation"
- Daily Mail 3 February though written in 1904
- Seventeen Lost Stories (1969)
- "The Fortunate Painter"
- Bystander 7 March
- Seventeen Lost Stories
- "A Marriage of Convenience"
- Illustrated London News 23 June - although Stott puts it as printed in 1908 in D12, it must have been a typo since later cross reference in D84 has the correct year
- rewritten and printed in Strand Magazine December 1929
- Hearst's International Combined With Cosmopolitan January 1930
- chapter XXXIV in The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930)
- as "The French Governor" in The Maugham Reader (1950), not in Stott
- the comparison of the original and revised versions provides a very interesting reading of Maugham's style. The setting and the narrative voice are different, although the main theme remains the same. The narrator in the early version is reminiscent of a nineteenth-century protagonist, romantic and awkward at times, with a strong sense of justice, something from Conan Doyle or Bram Stoker; the later version is definitely Maugham, an observer, a traveller, who, like a sponge, absorbs as many stories as can be wrung out of the very air he breathes. As the original Illustrated London News may not be easily come by, it can be read in Seventeen Lost Stories.
1907
- "Good Manners"
- Windsor Magazine May
- Seventeen Lost Stories (1969)
1908
- "The Luncheon"
- as "Cousin Amy" in Pall Mall Magazine March
- rewritten, renamed, and reprinted in Cosmopolitan March 1924
- Nash's Magazine June 1924
- Cosmopolitans (1936)
- "The Happy Couple"
- Cassell's Magazine May; a story that Maugham had forgotten about and later recovered by Karl Pfeiffer. After reading it again, Maugham found that it was worth rewriting it and it was republished in
- Red Book February 1943 in its new form
- Creatures of Circumstances (1947)
1909
- "The Mother"
- Story Teller April
- revised and collected in Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
- "A Traveller in Romance"
- Printers' Pie
- collected in A Traveller in Romance (1984)
1921
- "Rain"
- as "Miss Thompson" published in The Smart Set April
- The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)
- "Red"
- Asia April
- revised and included in The Trembling of a Leaf
- "The Pool"
- Cosmopolitan September
- The Trembling of a Leaf
- "Honolulu"
- Everybody's October
- The Trembling of a Leaf
- "Mackintosh"
- Cosmopolitan November
- The Trembling of a Leaf
- "The Fall of Edward Barnard"
- The Trembling of a Leaf
1922
- "The Dinner-Party"
- first published together with several other stories as Foreign Devils in Asia February
- On a Chinese Screen (1922) as "Dinner Parties"
- "The Taipan"
- first published together with several other stories as Foreign Devils in Asia February (not in Stott)
- Pearson's Magazine October
- On a Chinese Screen
- "Mirage"
- first published together with several other stories as Foreign Devils in Asia February (not in Stott)
- On a Chinese Screen as "Dinner Parties"
- "The Old-Timer"
- first published together with several other stories as Foreign Devils in Asia February (not in Stott)
- On a Chinese Screen as "Dinner Parties"
- "The Consul"
- first published together with several other stories as Foreign Devils in Asia February (not in Stott)
- On a Chinese Screen
- Golden Book April 1926
- "Fear"
- Century March
- Living Age 1925
- On a Chinese Screen
- "Before the Party"
- Nash's Magazine December
- Hearst's International January 1923
- The Casuarina Tree (1926)
- "Princess September"
- Pearson's Magazine December
- Good Housekeeping December, as "The Princess and the Nightingale"
- as "September's Bird" copyrighted by Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan 1929 (this fact is not recorded by Stott);
- The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930), chapter XXXII
- it was written for the miniature manuscript library of the Queen's Doll's House, but in the copy of its first individual edition in 1939 that Maugham inscribed for Jerome R. Zipkin, he wrote: "Dear Jerry This little story was written for my daughter Liza. You must read it to yours when you have one. Willie."
1923
- "P. & O."
- as "Bewitched" in Hearst's International February
- Nash's Magazine April
- The Casuarina Tree (1926)
- "Jane"
- Hearst's International April
- Nash's Magazine August
- Cosmopolitans (1936)
- "Raw Material"
- as "The Imposters" in Cosmopolitan November
- Nash's Magazine December
- Cosmopolitans as "Raw Material"
- "Mayhew"
- Cosmopolitan December
- Nash's Magazine January 1924
- Cosmopolitans
1924
- "German Harry"
- Cosmopolitan January
- Nash's Magazine March
- Cosmopolitans (1936)
- "The Force of Circumstance"
- Hearst's International January
- Nash's Magazine February
- The Casuarina Tree (1926)
- "In a Strange Land"
- Cosmopolitan February
- Nash's Magazine April
- The Best Short Stories of 1924. vol. 1. Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, eds. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1925
- Cosmopolitans
- "The Round Dozen"
- Good Housekeeping March
- Hearst's International July under the title "The Ardent Bigamist"
- Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (1931)
- "Mabel"
- Cosmopolitan April, as "The Woman Who Wouldn't Take a Hint"
- The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930), ch. VI
- Stott cross references "The Woman Who Wouldn't Take a Hint" as "The Escape," but it is an error.
- "The Letter"
- Hearst's International April
- Nash's Magazine May
- The Casuarina Tree
- "The Dream"
- as "A Dream" in Cosmopolitan May
- Nash's Magazine July
- Cosmopolitans as "The Dream"
- "The Outstation"
- Hearst's International June
- Nash's Magazine August
- The Casuarina Tree
- "The Happy Man"
- Cosmopolitan June
- Nash's Magazine August
- Cosmopolitans
- "Salvatore"
- as "Salvatore the Fisherman" in Cosmopolitan July
- Nash's Magazine November 1925
- Cosmopolitans as "Salvatore"
- "Home"
- as "Home from the Sea" in Cosmopolitan September
- Nash's Magazine November 1925
- as "Home" in Cosmopolitans
- "The Ant and the Grasshopper"
- Cosmopolitan October
- Cosmopolitans
1925
- "Mr. Know-All"
- Cosmopolitan January
- Good Housekeeping September 1924[1925?] (registered as "1924" in Stott, but if it was a reprint, should have appeared after the first appearance
- Cosmopolitans (1936)
- "The Escape"
- as "A Widow's Might" in Cosmopolitan February 1925
- Cosmopolitans
- "A Friend In Need"
- as "The Man Who Wouldn't Hurt a Fly" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan April
- Nash's Magazine August
- Cosmopolitans as "A Friend in Need"
- "The Portrait of a Gentleman"
- as "The Code of a Gentleman" in Heart's International Combined with Cosmopolitan June
- Cosmopolitans as "The Portrait of a Gentleman"
- "The Yellow Streak"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan August
- Nash's Magazine October
- The Casuarina Tree (1926)
- "Louise"
- as "The Most Selfish Woman I knew" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan September
- Good Housekeeping December as "Louise"
- Cosmopolitans
- "The Man with the Scar"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan October
- Nash's Magazine December
- Grand Magazine May 1933
- Cosmopolitans
- "The Poet"
- as "The Great Man" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan October
- Nash's Magazine January 1926
- as "The Poet" in Cosmopolitans
- "The Promise"
- as "An Honest Woman" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan December
- Nash's Magazine February 1926
- Georgian Stories 1926
- Cosmopolitans
1926
- "The End of the Flight"
- Harper's Bazaar January
- Nash's Magazine May
- Cosmopolitans (1936)
- "French Joe"
- as "Another Man Without a Country" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan January
- Nash's Magazine March
- Cosmopolitans (1936)
- "The Creative Impulse"
- Harper's Bazaar August
- Nash's Magazine November
- Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (1931)
- "The Closed Shop"
- Harper's Bazaar September
- Nash's Magazine January 1927
- Cosmopolitans
1927
- "Footprints in the Jungle"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan January
- Nash's Magazine March
- Ah King (1933)
- "A String of Beads"
- as "Pearls" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan February
- Nash's Magazine March
- as "A String of Beads" in Cosmopolitans (1936)
- "The Traitor"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan September
- Nash's Magazine November 1927
- Ashenden (1928)
- "His Excellency"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan November
- Nash's Magazine January 1928
- Ashenden
- "The Hairless Mexican"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan December
- Nash's Magazine February 1928
- Ashenden
1928
- "Behind the Scenes"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "A Chance Acquaintance"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "A Dark Woman"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "A Domiciliary Visit"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "The Flip of a Coin"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "The Greek"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "Mr. Harrington's Washing"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan January
- Nash's Magazine March
- Ashenden (1928)
- "Miss King"
- as "The British Agent," Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan February
- Nash's Magazine April
- as "Miss King" in Ashenden
- "Giulia Lazzari"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "Gustav"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "Love and Russian Literature"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "R."
- Ashenden (1928)
- "A Trip to Paris"
- Ashenden (1928)
- "The Four Dutchmen"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan December
- Nash's Magazine February 1929
- Cosmopolitans (1936)
1929
- "The Wash-Tub"
- as "In Hiding" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan January
- Nash's Magazine May
- Cosmopolitans (1936) as "The Wash-Tub"
- "The Bum"
- as "A Derelict" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan February 1929
- Nash's Magazine April 1929
- Cosmopolitans as "The Bum"
- "The Social Sense"
- as "The Extraordinary Sex" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan March
- Nash's Magazine June
- Cosmopolitans
- "Straight Flush"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan April [Stott recorded June]
- Nash's Magazine July
- Cosmopolitans
- "The Verger"
- as "The Man Who Made His Mark" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan June
- Nash's Magazine August
- as "The Verger" in Cosmopolitans
- "Mirage"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan October
- Strand Magazine November
- The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930) as chapter XLIII without title and with some changes in the first paragraph
- as "The Opium Addict" in The Maugham Reader (1950), not registered in Stott
- "On the Road to Mandalay"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan December
- as chapter X without title in The Gentleman in the Parlour
- as "Masterson" in The Complete Short Stories (1952)
- it seems hard to believe but this story was first submitted to Strand, and it was rejected!
1930
- "The Human Element"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan December
- Nash's Magazine January 1931
- Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (1931)
1931
- "Virtue"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan February
- Nash's Magazine March
- Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (1931)
- "The Vessel of Wrath"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan April
- Nash's Magazine May
- Ah King (1933)
- "The Back of Beyond"
- as "The Right Thing is the Kind Thing" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan July
- Nash's Magazine September
- as "The Back of Beyond" in Ah King
- "The Alien Corn"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan August
- Nash's Magazine October 1941
- Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular
- "The Door of Opportunity"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan October
- Nash's Magazine December
- Ah King
1932
- "Neil MacAdam"
- "The Temptation of Neil Macadam" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan February
- Nash's Magazine April
- Ah King (1933)
- "The Book-Bag"
- The Book Bag (1932)
- Ah King
1933
- "The Three Fat Women of Antibes"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan October
- Nash's Magazine November
- The Mixture As Before (1940)
1934
- "The Buried Talent"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan February
- Nash's Magazine March
- A Traveller in Romance (1984)
- "The Treasure"
- as "The Best Ever" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan May
- Nash's Magazine May
- as "The Treasure" in The Mixture As Before (1940)
- "A Casual Affair"
- Nash's Magazine November
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan April 1935
- The Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
- "Appearance and Reality"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan November
- Nash's Magazine December
- The Creature of Circumstance
- "The Judgement Seat"
- in book form as limited signed edition
- Cosmopolitans (1936)
1935
- "The Voice of the Turtle"
- Nash's Magazine January
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan November 1936
- The Mixture As Before (1940)
- Sixty-Five Short Stories
- "Gigolo and Gigolette"
- Nash's Magazine March
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan July
- The Mixture As Before
- "The Lotus Eater"
- Nash's Magazine October
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan April 1936
- The Mixture As Before
1937
- "An Official Position"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan July
- Nash's Magazine August
- The Mixture As Before (1940)
- "The Lion's Skin"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan November
- Good Housekeeping February 1938
- The Mixture As Before [there is an error in Stott, in which it says that this story was not reprinted in book form although its inclusion in Mixture is registered in the index]
1938
- "Sanatorium"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan December
- Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
1939
- "Lord Mountdrago"
- as "Doctor and Patient" in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan February
- as "Lord Mountdrago" in The Mixture As Before (1940)
- "The Facts of Life"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan April
- The Mixture As Before
- "A Man with a Conscience"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan June
- The Mixture As Before (1940)
1940
- "Flotsam and Jetsam"
- Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan July [not in Stott]
- Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
1942
- "A Woman Who Wouldn't Quit"
- This Week 4 January [not in Stott]
- A Travaller in Romance (1984)
1943
- "The Unconquered"
- Colliers' Magazine April
- in book form 1944
- Creatures of Circumstances (1947)
- "Winter Cruise"
- as "The Captain and Miss Reid,"Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan June
- as "Winter Cruise" in Creatures of Circumstance
1946
- "The Colonel's Lady"
- Good Housekeeping (N.Y.) March
- Good Housekeeping (Lond.) August
- Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
- "A Woman of Fifty"
- Good Housekeeping May
- Creatures of Circumstance
- "Episode"
- Good Housekeeping (Lond.) March
- Today's Woman September as "The Man with Red Hair," undocumented
- Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
- "The Kite"
- Today's Woman November, as "A Man and His Kite," unregistered
- Creatures of Circumstance
1947
- "The Point of Honour"
- Good Housekeeping March
- Creatures of Circumstance
- "The Romantic Young Lady"
- New Yorker 21 June
- Creatures of Circumstance
- "A Man from Glasgow"
- Creatures of Circumstance
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I really admire your effort and work on Maugham. It must took a lot of time to classify all these internet sources.I would very much like to pay my tribute to you.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Cheng!
DeleteHello, so can I find all the short stories which are in "The Collected Short Stories" in four volumes available in Amazon?
ReplyDeleteEgE, I haven't double checked, but you can find the content of the four volumes here: http://www.librarything.com/work/1447494
DeleteThe list I compile here is done bit by bit when I get hold of the digitalized version of the stories.
Hi, do you have a full analysis about the short story "The Creative Impulse" by W. Somerset Maugham?
ReplyDeleteHi yunichan,
DeleteYou may like to have a look at the Criticism of W. Somerset Maugham page, in which a list of books of criticism are listed; they can be borrowed from the Open Library. You can do a word search to find discussion about the story that you are interested in.