Collected Short Stories Volume 3

Apr 18, 2025 4:50 PM

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to 'R', Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister 'hairless Mexican'.

Reviews

A brilliant entertainer

—— New York Times

A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents

—— Spectator

As clever a craftsman as the cleverest

—— Observer

A collection of stories it would be hard to forget

—— Peter Kemp , Sunday Times

Galloway's ear for dialogue is astonishing, almost musical

—— Olivia Laing , The Observer

Scottish writer Janie Galloway has a reputation for going where more polite writers fear to tread..this includes some of the author's most distinctive work...this original collection will wake up the most jaded palate.

—— Emma Hagestadt , The Independent

Galloway can evoke a life, a relationship, just about the whole human condition, within ten brilliantly written pages

—— Daily Mail

Affectingly raw and full of surprises

—— Ophelia Field , Sunday Telegraph

Spikey, bleak stories you won't forget ... poignant stories, all of which stand immediate rereading

—— William Leith , Scotsman

Her stories are suggestively musical examples of rich, Glaswegian gothic

—— Alfred Hickling , Guardian

At last, Galloway's stories are back in print in one collection...savagely accurate, engaging and funny, she is one of our great contemporary writers

—— Independent on Sunday

A testament to the sharp eye and shrewd brain of Janice Galloway, one of Scotland's finest writers

—— The Herald

A writer of passion and virtuosity

—— Scotland on Sunday

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