Ten Unforgettable Stories of W. Somerset Maugham   

A century ago, Somerset Maugham was one of the world’s most highly esteemed and commercially successful authors. More recently his reputation has fallen, and Maugham has become of greater interest to biographers, novelists like Tan Twan Eng, and, for our purposes, a class of experienced readers re-examining his work after many years. We will read and discuss ten of Maugham’s best-known short stories, including “The Letter” and “Rain.”