W. Somerset Maugham Bibliography - Travel Books

Travel Books

The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia (1905)

• Heinemann, 1904. First Edition.
• Knopf, 1920. First American Edition. Second edition from the same year retitled Andalusia.
• Heron, 1968. Together with The Explorer (1908).
• Kessinger Publishing, 2000. Reprint of a Heinemann from 1905. More or less well done.

On A Chinese Screen (1922)

• George H. Doran, 1922. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1922. First English Edition.
• Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface. Reprinted in 1953, 1957, 1962 and 1969.
• Vintage Classics, 2000. Contains no preface at all!

Contents
I The Rising of the Curtain - II My Lady's Parlour - III The Mongol Chief - IV The Rolling Stone - V The Cabinet Minister - VI Dinner Parties - VII The Altar of Heaven - VIII The Servants of God - IX The Inn - X The Glory Hole - XI Fear - XII The Picture - XIII His Britannic Majesty's Representative - XIV The Opium Den - XV The Last Chance - XVI The Nun - XVII Henderson - XVIII Dawn - XIX The Point of Honour - XX The Beast of Burden - XXI Dr Macalister - XXII The Road - XXIII God's Truth - XXIV Romance - XXV The Grand Style - XXVI Rain - XXVII Sullivan - XXVIII The Dining-Room - XXIX Arabesque - XXX The Consul - XXXI The Stripling - XXXII The Fannings - XXXIII The Song of the River - XXXIV Mirage - XXXV The Stranger - XXXVI Democracy - XXXVII The Seventh Day Adventist - XXXVIII The Philosopher - XXXIX The Missionary Lady - XL A Game of Billiards - XLI The Skipper - XLII The Sights of the Town - XLIII NIghtfall - XLIV The Normal Man - XLV The Old Timer - XLVI The Plain - XLVII Failure - XLVIII A Student of the Drama - XLIX The Taipan - L Metempsychosis - LI The Fragment - LII One of the Best - LIII The Sea-Dog - LIV The Question - LV The Sinologue - LVI The Vice-Consul - LVII A City Built on a Rock - LVIII A Libation to the Gods

Note.
The Consul and The Taipan were later published under the same titles in The Complete Short Stories (1951). They also appeared in magazines in 1922 (The Consul as Mr Pete.)

The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey From Rangoon to Haiphong (1930)

• Heinemann, 1930. First Edition.
• Doubleday Doran, 1930. First American Edition.
• Heinemann, 1935. The Collected Edition. New 4pp Preface.
• Vintage Classics, 2001. Contains the 1935 Preface.

Notes.

Five chapters were published in The Complete Short Stories under different titles as follows: Chapter VI - Mabel. Chapter X - Masterson. Chapter XXXII - Princess September. Chapter XXXIV - A Marriage of Convenience. Chapter XLIII - Mirage.

A Marriage of Convenience is a rewritten version of the early short story of the same title reprinted in Seventeen Lost Stories (1969); the latter version appeared in magazines under the same title, as did Mirage (both 1929). In magazines, Masterson and Princess September were published as On the Road to Mandalay (1929) and The Princess and the Nightingale (1922), respectively.

Mirage, Princess September and A Marriage of Convenience also appeared as The Opium Addict, September's Bird and The French Governor, respectively, in a volume titled The Maugham Reader (1950, Doubleday, with an introduction by Glenway Wescott).