W. Somerset Maugham: Which Short Story in Which Volume? [English]

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Those stories are in Collected Short Stories Volume 1 – 4 and in other editions:

• Ev31 = also included in Collected Stories in Everyman’s Library (31 stories, Amazon.DE)
• B17 = also included in The best short stories of (17 stories, Amazon)
• B10 = also included in Best Short Stories (Macmillan, 10 stories, Amazon)
• FET = also included in Far Eastern Tales (10 stories, Amazon)
• MFE = also included in More Far Eastern Tales (also 10 stories, Amazon)
• RSt = also included in Rain and other South Sea Stories (7 stories, Amazon)

			Ø 6,13	Collected Short Stories Volume 1
Rain	1921	South Sea	5/10		Ev31, B17, B10, RSt
The Fall of Edward Barnard	1921	USA, South Sea	6/10		Ev31, RSt
Honolulu	1921	South Sea
The Luncheon	1924	London	8/10
The Ant and the Grasshopper	1924	London	6/10
Home	1924	England	7/10
The Pool	1921	South Sea			Ev31, RSt
Mackintosh	1921	South Sea	7/10		Ev31, RSt
Appearance and Reality	1934	Paris
The Three Fat Women of Antibes	1933	Côte d’Azur	6/10
The Facts of Life	1939	England, Monte Carlo	6/10		B17
Gigolo and Gigolette	1935	Monte Carlo	6/10
The Happy Couple	1943	Côte d’Azur	5/10		Ev31
The Voice of the Turtle	1935	England, Côte d’Azur	6/10		B17
The Lion’s Skin	1937	Côte d’Azur	7/10
Unconquered	1943	France in war			Ev31
The Escape	1925	England	5/10
The Judgement Seat	1934
Mr. Know-All	1925	Ocean liner	6/10		B17, FET
The Happy Man	1924	England, Sevilla	5/10
The Romantic Young Lady	1947	Sevilla	6/10
The Point of Honour	1947	Sevilla	7/10
The Poet	1925	Spain	7/10
The Mother	1909	Sevilla	7/10
A Man from Glasgow	1947	Spain	2/10
Before the Party	1922	England,  Borneo			Ev31, FET
Louise	1925	England	7/10
The Promise	1925	London	7/10
A String of Beads	1927	England	7/10
The Yellow Streak	1925	Borneo			Ev31, MFE
			Ø 6,13
			Ø 6,5	Collected Short Stories Volume 2
The Vessel of Wrath	1931	South Sea @ Papua-Neuguinea	7/10		Ev31, B17, B10, MFE
The Force of Circumstance	1928	Malaya			Ev31, FET
Flotsam and Jetsam	1940	Borneo			MFE
The Alien Corn	1931	England	7/10		Ev31, B17
The Creative Impulse	1926	London	6/10
Virtue	1931	London, Malaya	6/10		Ev31
The Man with the Scar	1925	Mittelamerika	6/10
The Closed Shop	1926	South America	7/10
The Bum	1929	Mexico	4/10		Ev31
The Dream	1924	Russia	5/10
The Treasure	1934	London	7,5/10		Ev31, B17, B10
The Colonel’s Lady	1946	England	7/10		Ev31, B17, B10
Lord Mountdrago	1939	London			B17, B10
The Social Sense	1929	London	5/10
The Verger	1929	London			B17, B10
In a Strange Land	1924	Turkey	6/10		Ev31
The Taipan	1922	China
The Consul	1922	China	5/10
A Friend in Need	1925	Japan	6/10
The Round Dozen	1924	England	7/10		B17
The Human Element	1930	England, Rhodos	7,5/10		Ev31
Jane	1923	London	8/10
Footprints in the Jungle	1927	Malaya			Ev31, FET
The Door of Opportunity	1931	Malaya, England			FET
			Ø 6,5
			Ø 6,1	Collected Short Stories Volume 3 (Ashenden-Spy-Stories)
Miss King		Switzerland	4/10		Ev31
The Hairless Mexican			6/10		Ev31
Giulia Lazzari		Switzerland, France	7/10		Ev31
The Traitor			7/10		Ev31
His Excellency		Russia, France	6/10		Ev31
Mr Harrington’s Washing		Russia	6/10		Ev31
Sanatorium		Scotland	7/10		Ev31
			Ø 6,1
			Ø 6,1	Collected Short StoriesVolume  4
The Book-Bag	1932	Malaya			Ev31, B17, B10, MFE
French Joe	1926	South Sea	7/10
German Harry	1924	South Sea	7/10
The Four Dutchmen	1928	Singapur			MFE
The Back Of Beyond	1931	Malaya			Ev31, MFE
P. & O.	1923	Ocean Liner			B17, B10, FET
Episode	1946	England	5,5/10
The Kite	1946	London	7/10
A Woman Of Fifty	1946	Florence, USA	8/10
Mayhew	1923	Capri	3,5/10		Ev31
The Lotus Eater	1935	Capri	4,5/10
Salvatore	1924	Capri
The Wash-Tub	1929	Italy	3/10
A Man With A Conscience	1939	Prison colony French Guyana, France	7/10
An Official Position	1937	Prison colony French Guyana, France	7/10
Winter Cruise	1943	Ocean Liner	8/10
Mabel	1924	Burma			FET
Masterson	1929	Burma			MFE
Princess September		Fairy tale in Thailand
A Marriage Of Convenience	1929	Ocean Liner
Mirage	1929	Vietnam			Ev31
The Letter	1924	Singapur, Malaya	8,5/10		Ev31, B17, B10, MFE
The Outstation	1924	Borneo	7/10		Ev31, MFE
The Portrait Of A Gentleman	1925	Korea
Raw Material	1923	Ocean Liner, New York	3,5/10
Straight Flush	1929	Ocean Liner	4,5/10
The End Of The Flight	1926	Borneo			FET
A Casual Affair	1934	Borneo, England	7/10
Red	1921	South Sea			B17, RSt
Neil Macadam	1932	Borneo			FET
			Ø 6,1

Those Stories are not in the Collected Short Stories Volume 1 – 4:

• The Buried Talent (1934; included in Far Eastern Tales)
• Pacific, Envoi, both in Rain and other South Sea Stories, not fullfledged stories, rather Intro and Outro
• Around 17 early pieces from 1898 – 1908, intentionally not included by Maugham into Collected Short Stories, but to be found in Seventeen Lost Stories (Amazon.DE; Kirkus Reviews). In the preface to Collected Short Stories Volume 1 Maugham writes:

In my early youth I wrote a number ((of short stories)), but they are so immature that I have preferred not to reprint them. A few are in a book that has long remained out of print, a few others are scattered in various magazines. They are best forgotten.

These 10 Short Stories appear in Far Eastern Tales:

• Footprints in the Jungle (book @ Amazon.DE)
• Mabel
• & O.
• The Door of Opportunity
• The Buried Talent
• Before the Party
• Know-All
• Neil MacAdam
• The End of the Flight
• The Force of Circumstance

These 10 Short Stories appear in More Far Eastern Tales:

• The Letter (book @ Amazon.DE)
• The Outstation
• Vessel of Wrath
• The Four Dutchmen
• Flotsam and Jetsam
• The Book-Bag
• Raw Material
• The Yellow Streak
• Masterson
• The Back of Beyond

The Story A Casual Affair (Collected Shorties 4) would fit into Far Eastern Tales, but isn’t included.

These 7 Short Stories appear in Rain and other South Sea Stories:

• Pacific* (book @ Amazon.DE)
• Mackintosh
• Rain
• Envoi*
• Honolulu
• The Pool
• Fall of Edward Bernard

The Story Red (Collected Shorties 4) would fit into South Sea Stories, but isn’t included.

*Not in Collected Short Stories Vol. 1 – 4

These 17 Short Stories appear in The Best Short Stories of:

• The Letter (book @ Amazon.DE)
• The verger
• The vessel of wrath
• The hairless Mexican
• Harrington’s washing
• Red
• Know-all
• The alien corn
• The book-bag
• The round dozen
• The voice of the turtle
• The facts of life
• Lord Mountdrago
• The colonel’s lady
• The treasure
• Rain
• & O.

These 10 Short Stories appear in Best Short Stories (Macmillan):

• The Letter (book @ Amazon.DE)
• The Verger
• The Vessel of Wrath
• The Book-Bag
• The Facts of Life
• Lord Mountdrago
• The Colonel’s Lady
• The Treasure
• Rain
• & O.

These 31 Short Stories appear Everyman’s Library:

• In a Strange Land (book @ Amazon.DE)
• Rain
• The Fall of Edward Bernard
• The Pool
• Mackintosh
• The Happy Couple
• The Unconquered
• Before the Party
• The Yellow Streak
• The Vessel of Wrath
• The Force of Circumstance
• The Alien Corn
• Virtue
• The Bum
• The Treasure
• The Colonel’s Lady
• The Human Element
• Footprints in the Jungle
• The Book-bag
• The Back of Beyond
• Mayhew
• Mirage
• The Letter
• The Outstation
• Red
• Miss King
• The Hairless Mexican
• Giulia Lazzari
• The Traitor
• His Excellency
• Sanatorium

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