Short Story Collections
See the short story section for more information as regards contents and publication history.
- Orientations (1899)
- The Trembling of a Leaf (1921)
- The Casuarina Tree (1926)
- Ashenden: Or the British Agent (1928)
- First Person Singular (1931)
- Ah King (1933)
- Cosmopolitans - Very Short Stories (1936)
- The Mixture As Before (1940)
- Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
Read more about this topic: W. Somerset Maugham Bibliography
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