Cover of The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by William Somerset Maugham Audiobook The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
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The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands

Author
William Somerset Maugham
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
6 hours 43 minutes
ISBN
9781802560312
Published
23 August 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • South Sea Islands
  • short stories
  • adventure
  • romance
  • culture
  • tropical
  • human nature
  • colonialism
  • exotic
  • transformation

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Description

South Sea island stories of colonial desire, loneliness, and cultural clash under tropical beauty that does not soften the cost. Traders, officials, and wanderers meet heat, distance, and temptation that strip pretence away. Maugham’s short fiction where paradise becomes a hard mirror for those who thought they only came to look. Spoken as when the islands change people who never meant to be changed.

Author

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) wrote Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, and a famous shelf of stories from the South Seas and the drawing room. A doctor by training, he observed with a cool, professional eye: desire, failure, and the cost of a vocation. With 35 titles in our catalogue, Maugham remains the English novelist of worldly intelligence — never sentimental, always readable.

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