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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.-Ch. 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.William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English playwright and author wrote Of Human Bondage (1915) He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of reality. The link is to a reprint published in Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7464,, , not mentioned in Stott or collected in other editions.
the history of this story is more complicated. " The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian". Link to the individual short story will be provided gradually in this section while building My Maugham Collection Concordance Library (MMCCL). The information is taken from Stott except when indicated. 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. I find it convenient to have them listed in chronological order. The followings are individual short stories. 
I assume the subsequent reprints are all the same I list the content as it is in the earliest listed reprint here. were published first by Penguin and later reprinted throughout the years. 1, Pan Books, 1975 I will be listing what are available for downloading/borrowing.
The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian (1898). Showalter spent about two years tracking down the early stories.' If he had consulted this bibliography, originally published in 1956, he would have found all the so-called 'lost' seventeen stories without stirring from his chair" (179–80). All this aside, you have to hear Stott with a rare touch of sarcasm: "According to a news item in The Times 29 April 1969 'Dr. The World Over (1952)ĭoubleday & Co., 1952 this follows another collection East and West published in 1934 and contains a new prefaceĭoubleday & Co., 1969 this contains Orientations (by that time supposedly hard to find a copy) and stories that were not published before. Please click the book covers to borrow/download/read. M Princess September and the Nightingale (1998). Somerset Maugham Click the book covers to download/borrow/read. 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. I will be including links to individual stories online at MMCCL when they are ready. 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 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. Somerset Maugham (1973), except when indicated otherwise. 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. 
On the other hand, if you are interested in reading Maugham's works, visit the new My Maugham Collection Concordance Library (MMCCL), which, upon completion, will contain Maugham's complete works and a searchable database.
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Readers have the choice to download or, in some cases, borrow some of these books from the Open Library. Though this blog is about collecting Maugham's books as physical objects, I also like to have the digitized version for my eReader, because then I can carry them around and take advantage of technology, not like Maugham who had to suffer the problem of travelling with his enormous book-bag! Besides, it is very convenient when you need to search for something specific.
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