It may be short but is in fact 32pp so took a little time to read.įirst published in 1926 and set in Singapore, it’s actually based on the true-life story of a headmaster’s wife – in Kuala Lumpur – who was convicted of murder for killing a male friend in 1911, but was eventually pardoned. Knowing I had little time to read them right now, I googled to find which were considered Maugham’s best short stories and one, The Letter, was in the collection I’d bought.
I remember only that I read many and became quite addicted but it was all a long time ago and I don’t remember any in name or detail. She admired his writing and there were lots of his books in our house. It was my mother who introduced him to me in my teens. However, one was enough to remind me of what an extraordinary and wonderful writer Maugham was. I bought one collection (the 4 th) on Kindle but unfortunately haven’t had time to read more than one. His name and short stories came up during a recent Zoom meeting and a number of people remembered reading his short stories – for which he is famous – including me, and thus I made a note for our next plan. But after the success of his first novel, he gave medicine up and took to full-time writing and became one of the most popular and highest-paid authors in the 1930s.Īlthough listed as my choice in our plan, I can’t really claim the credit for revisiting this fine author. He rejected the encouragement to follow the family tradition of going into the Law and studied to become a doctor instead. Tragedy struck at the early age of ten when both his parents died and he was taken in by an uncle who was cold towards the boy. Somerset Maugham was an English writer who was born in Paris in 1874 and died in Nice in 1965.
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