# Collected Short Stories: Volume 2

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- Book: [Collected Short Stories Volume 2](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/collected-short-stories-volume-2) ([Collected Short Stories Volume 2.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham/collected-short-stories-volume-2.md))
- Authors: [William Somerset Maugham](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4018-590-4
- Pages: 432
- Published: 1992-04-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England,...