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Analysis: I Love Me - I Kill Me: From W. Somerset Maugham to James Ward Byrkit

"The Best Ever" by W. Somerset Maugham

This post is going to be a little bit different from the habitual. Instead of focussing on W. Somerset Maugham's works or books that talk about Maugham, it is about thoughts triggered by one of his stories, "The Treasure," which I analysed in a previous post.

"The Treasure" was written as "The Best Ever" in 1933. In it, Maugham portrays a self-absorbed man. Reading it as a modern fairy tale, I bring out the narc…
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Analysis: Modern Fairy Tale: "The Treasure" by W. Somerset Maugham

The Mixture As Before (1940) - W. Somerset Maugham
"The Treasure." The Mixture As Before. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. 59–84
Glenway Wescott's high opinion of this short story, "The Treasure," in his essay "Somerset Maugham and Posterity" got me curious to read it again.

Like the last story, "The Back of Beyond," that I talked about, "The Treasure" was first published in Cosmopolitan under a different title, "The Best Ev…
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