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Analysis: Jumping Johnnies, Willie Maugham, and "The Back of Beyond"
Ah King (1933) by W. Somerset Maugham"The Back of Beyond." Ah King. London: Heinemann, 1933. 220-268.
Last night I picked up "The Back of Beyond," a short story by W. Somerset Maugham, originally published under the title "The Right Thing is the Kind Thing" in Cosmopolitan, July 1931. Two years later, it became "The Back of Beyond" and was collected in Ah King.
It is a story with an intricate narrative structure, which teachers of creative writing or f…